Channel 4 report fake jobs?

mattcanary · 9 February 2014 at 10:04AM

:money:

Firetastic wrote: »

Last night I posted about BodhiMoney. I notice today they have disappeared.

I appplied for one of their "jobs" last week. So it was a waste of time?

mattcanary · 9 February 2014 at 10:09AM

patman99 wrote: »

The biggest laugh is that one of the biggest spammers of UJM is CV-Library itself. They use an auto-lister to put the same jobs on UJM every day.
I have a feeling that they, along with Monster & Adzuna use affiliate systems to cross-list each others jobs as well.
It does seem funny that the 3 sites all list exactly the same job.

As for fake jobs, why do C4 not go after the Agencies who quite openly list jobs that do not exist?. Several of the Agencies I am registered with with advertise a genuine job, but will leave the job as live for up to a year after it has been filled.

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I think CV Library do post plenty of genuine jobs too.

This joker (religious man too!) appears to have used CV Library to post some of his "vacancies" on his behalf. But plenty of the jobs advertised by CV Library come form other sources.

I have had contact from employers after applying for jobs on CV Library.

[Deleted User] · 9 February 2014 at 11:29AM

mattcanary wrote: »

:money:

I appplied for one of their "jobs" last week. So it was a waste of time?

Me to - were all over Essex and ahem other parts of UK when I realised it wasn't kosher.

Ad's did disappear next day but toward the end of the week I see they snuck back in

tinkerbell_2k12 · 9 February 2014 at 11:57AM

Same here I applied for a bohi money job at the beginning of the week then realised the next day when I looked on ujm that the company where posting more vacancies in a few of the local towns surrounding, there something surely wasn't right

Firetastic · 9 February 2014 at 12:33PM

I'd never heard of them before in this area. I nearly applied but came on here to ask first as I thought something was strange.

mro · 9 February 2014 at 1:58PM

:eek:

That is 33,570 jobs in 12 employers out of top 200 only !

Still another 182 employers out of top 200 to check.
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CCFC_80 · 9 February 2014 at 2:16PM

mro wrote: »

People have a look at the top 200 "employers" on UJM:

https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/Browse.aspx?sc=em

Look at their jobs, same jobs listed multiple times round the country.
Click on a few, no contact details, and then apply, many of which take you to similiar dodgy websites without any contact details like Search Job Vacancies.

That's most of the employers I checked in short period.

Here are some I picked out:

Ados Solutions (5573 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw4862143wx

AJM Group (2351 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw3581641wx

Askew Distribution (3783 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw2736901wx

C P N Distribution (3303 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw4437149wx

Ck recruitment (2040 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw5975240wx

Eagle Eye Enterprises (1891 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw5547049wx

jl-consultants (3823 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw4102053wx

KRK Marketing (1577 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw5722205wx

Lesley Whittington (2667 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=x8338235dwpx

PK Prospekts (5086 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw3059499wx

Quadrant recruitment (210 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw5103039wx

Shine Distribution Group (1266 jobs)
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/jobsearch/search.aspx?rad_units=miles&brd=6978%2c6985%2c6988&pp=25&vw=b&setype=1&seswitch=1&co=xw3112822wx

It doesn't look good ! :eek:

That is 33,570 jobs in 12 employers out of top 200 only !

Still another 182 employers out of top 200 to check.

Blimey, How many of those are fake?? and even worse advertised through the dreaded Recruitment agencies

mro · 9 February 2014 at 2:22PM

CCFC_80 wrote: »

Blimey, How many of those are fake?? and even worse advertised through the dreaded Recruitment agencies

Those aren't recruitment agencies, they are fronts setup to post these "jobs" to collect unemployed people's data.

tinkerbell_2k12 · 9 February 2014 at 2:30PM

I've applied for many jobs on my ujm account where the company details says company confidential, and more often than enough it always shows as application received but never changes over to viewed, are those fake jobs too?

mattcanary · 9 February 2014 at 2:42PM

mro wrote: »

Those aren't recruitment agencies, they are fronts setup to post these "jobs" to collect unemployed people's data.

One of them on that 200 most active employers list is called Jobsworth Recruitment Solutions. What a ridiculous name for an organisation.
Think they might be genuine too. Which makes it even worse!

Channel 4 report fake jobs?

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