Last week I saw a job posting that had some really interesting advice that I don’t remember seeing before, at least not in a job posting. It said: For your privacy and protection, when applying to a job online: Never provide credit card or bank account information, or perform any sort of monetary transaction. What [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a number of emails regarding fake job offers and other job search scams that abound on the Internet these days. Several guys from India emailed me regarding emails they’d received – independently of each other – where a company they’d never applied to had offered them a job [...]

Today I received an email from a job searcher asking me about an email he’d received from an oil company that was indicating that they were interested to interview him and he wasn’t sure what to do. It was a bit difficult to make out exactly what the person was asking for because English wasn’t [...]