Talking about scams in job proposals. Lately I've been getting a lot of recruiters contacting me with sweet fake jobs opportunities, only to really try and sell me their recruitment services.
Back when I was a contractor this was a common scam to bootstrap a new recruitment agency.
1. Post some fake job adverts
2. Collect the cvs of people who apply
3. Send those cvs in response to actual real job ads
4. If the company shows interest call the candidate and sign them up. If needed, paper over differences between from the job thought they applied for and the one you sent their cv in for.
It’s a super scummy tactic (but these are recruitment agents we’re talking about - the industry is stuffed with sharks and chancers). If you’re a hiring manager you can help to combat this unethical behaviour. Never accept CVs sent on spec (ie you didn’t ask for) by a recruiter unles you know for sure the candidate actually approved it. Whenever an agent send a cv to me like this I always send them
A mail saying I didn’t request the CV and won’t be paying them a fee if we do hire the candidate. Otherwise you can find yourself in the position where the same CV arrives from a different agent and the first agent tries to claim the placement fee as well.
