Best Tips to Avoid Scams in Your Job Search

⚠️These are SCAMS!!!

🦺Stay safe! Here are the key signs that a job posting is a scam and not a real position.

✅Extraordinarily high salaries compared to the experience and degree required. If the job is paying a salary of $197,000 with no experience required and only a high school diploma, it's probably a scam.

✅It's too simple. You get an offer without interviewing. Real jobs always have interviews.

✅The only interaction is by text message. All real jobs have interviews. They can be in person, over the phone, or video interviews. But not just by text. The recruiter may text you in combination with an interview, but real jobs have interviews before you are given an offer.

✅Their email address is not a corporate email address.

✅You are asked to pay to apply. Real jobs never ask you to pay to apply.

✅Misspelled words in the job posting

✅The person contacting you just set up their LinkedIn profile

✅They ask for personal information during the interview process, such as your social security number. Real jobs never require your social security number until AFTER you have been offered a job and are going through the onboarding process.

✅You can't find the company or any of the employees on LinkedIn, and if you can, their profiles look fake. (Note: This does not apply to small, individually owned businesses.)

✅Everything is vague: job requirements and hours, but the pay is significant.

➡️Bottom line, look the company up before applying, and then trust your gut!

➡️You are smart! Don't allow your own job search disappointments and frustrations to allow you to fall prey to a scam.

➡️This is not the diamond in the haystack. If all the jobs in your field are paying $75,000-$90,000 and this one is offering $192,000, stop and wonder why.

➡️If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. 😉

❤ Cindy