The hundreds of new job ads posted online daily is for pundits the sign of a thriving jobs market – but how many of them are real?
Reports from disgruntled job seekers tell a different story – that many job ads are merely "fishing expeditions" by recruitment agencies wanting to pad out their databases.
Andrew Cuddihy smelled a rat after being interviewed by a recruitment firm for a "senior science position" with an unnamed pharmaceutical company advertised online.
Ron Grant
Ron Grant: phantom ads happen.
“In the absence of any information about who the client was I prepared as best as I could. The interview questions followed a script which made it seem like I was being considered for the job for which I'd applied,” he says.
At the end of the interview Cuddihy was informed that the role was no longer available, which to him implied that he had been brought in to see if he might be suitable for a future position.
“It seems that I was strung along in a ploy to get me into their books,” he says.
"I felt like I'd just wasted a colossal amount of time and energy preparing for a position that, if it did exist, had been filled before I even got to the recruitment agency's offices,” says Cuddihy, who now works in cancer research at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/small-busines...fake-job-ad-20140501-37jk2.html#ixzz36uvQIst7
Reports from disgruntled job seekers tell a different story – that many job ads are merely "fishing expeditions" by recruitment agencies wanting to pad out their databases.
Andrew Cuddihy smelled a rat after being interviewed by a recruitment firm for a "senior science position" with an unnamed pharmaceutical company advertised online.
Ron Grant
Ron Grant: phantom ads happen.
“In the absence of any information about who the client was I prepared as best as I could. The interview questions followed a script which made it seem like I was being considered for the job for which I'd applied,” he says.
At the end of the interview Cuddihy was informed that the role was no longer available, which to him implied that he had been brought in to see if he might be suitable for a future position.
“It seems that I was strung along in a ploy to get me into their books,” he says.
"I felt like I'd just wasted a colossal amount of time and energy preparing for a position that, if it did exist, had been filled before I even got to the recruitment agency's offices,” says Cuddihy, who now works in cancer research at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/small-busines...fake-job-ad-20140501-37jk2.html#ixzz36uvQIst7
