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Directgov Jobs Website Full Of Scams and Dodgy Adverts
InnocentGuy
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Anyone else noticed that about 98% of the jobs are full of scams, for example dodgy catalogue adverts work from home etc.
And links to other scam websites for jobs that just do not exist. This has been going on for a year now and the job centre are doing nothing about it.
An entire site run by the government with desperate and vulnerable people who are wasting time searching dodgy stuff. It worries me so many blatant scams are asking for CV's full of personal information and this government seem to do nothing about it.
And links to other scam websites for jobs that just do not exist. This has been going on for a year now and the job centre are doing nothing about it.
An entire site run by the government with desperate and vulnerable people who are wasting time searching dodgy stuff. It worries me so many blatant scams are asking for CV's full of personal information and this government seem to do nothing about it.
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means they can claim there's loads of jobs for the workshy scroungers
just avoid them
what the problem is the utter INCOMPETENCY of it!!!
not only is the keyword search completely useless in it, but it's the general format of the job applications!
from single paragraphs to elaborate forms
it's a mess basically
The Eastern Europeans think nothing of it.
I later found out that credit applications had been made on my name including a £450,000 mortgage and various credit cards etc. When I called the job centre direct gov website they said its happening everywhere and they did not have the ability to delete the advert as the site is owned by an American company.
I guess it depends where in the country you are.
Every second job I see is from Jobs Warehouse.
But do a Google search for Jobs Warehouse. You wont find anything, no website, no company registration details, nothing.
In fact all they seem to do is cut and paste the text of job adverts from other existing websites.
They may be a legitimate company, but if they are why is there no information about them to be found anywhere?.
Use Indeed.co.uk instead. It's a site that searches and aggregates job adverts from the more popular and mainstream job search websites. You don't actually apply through Indeed, instead you are taken to the jobs website, agency or company to apply direct via the original advert.
That is how UJM should have been designed.
I have noticed a load of jobs for market research. Then it takes you to a website called Lightspeed. I want to get a job not do all these market rubbish.
and they're being counted as ONE ACTUAL JOB POSITION too!!!
the basic LIE of the job vacancy figures from the bunch of retarded monkeys administrating the site ..... IF they are administrating it at all!
it's rubbish and needs throwing out
Turns out all that is required is to register online then sent about 2 surveys a month which you will be "rewarded" for completing. Utter turd. She phoned someone up to point this out, but nothing was done about removing it as it was still there a week later
I added about 1000 hidden keywords to my CV because I figured that's how they would search them, but never had any calls.
I'm also interested to know how my CV appears to potential employers - whether they see it in the format it is uploaded, or if it just collates all text in the document into an unformatted page?
Employers know about that dodge.
If using this trick gets them to look at my CV then it's worked.
I doubt that someone recruiting for a position will read every CV they receive individually. If they narrow their search by looking for certain skills and qualifications then fair enough, but if they are lazy enough to refine the search using keywords then why shouldn't I be included?
It's a terrible site, the old site used to be much better.
Yep I had a similar experience when searching for jobs within 10 miles of Leeds and it came up with the likes of Gravesend and Maidstone I have also seen quite a few of those 'work from home' market research type jobs along with 'Jobs Warehouse' and 'Company Confidential' Finding a job is hard enough these days without these dodgy adverts as well
I was told about it on a CV-writing course. I suppose an employer might regard the hidden keywords as being deceptive (if you really had those qualities then why hide them?).
I was on it this morning and noticed "Company Confidential" an awful lot.
Thought it was very weird, one or two companies not listing their names fine, but there were loads of them, and so once again alarm bells and I avoided applying for any of them.
The old site was actually generally useful, decently set out and easy to use.
I understand they had to make changes, especially with them wanting people to electronically sign on and have the ability for JC staff to check up on clients etc. but they, well Monster anyway, have created a complete mess of a site.
http://www.monster.co.uk