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posted by on Oct. 26, 2006

I?ve been reading more lately about the misuse of public information posted by job candidates on the major online job sites such as Monster.com, HotJobs.com, and CareerBuilder.com.

 

A few years ago, most of the reports of misuse centered around the unauthorized use of resumes and candidates receiving calls trying to sell them services instead of legitimate career opportunities.  However, it looks like the recent trend has taken this misuse from being a nuisance to being criminal.

 

The Better Business Bureau and the FTC have seen a major rise in complaints about the misuse of personal information obtained from job boards; mostly where scam artists used this information to obtain bogus credit cards and loans.

 

The major job boards have been expanding their efforts to attempt to prevent the misuse of this information but it is the ultimate responsibility of the job seeker to be very wary of posting their personal information on any public website.

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  • 1 point 2 years ago

    Eerst Europa Doelstellingen: De Ci2i Verzekering (Ci2i) zal het nummer een gebrandmerkte pan Europese commoditized online verzekeringsmakelaar door 2010 zijn.

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    would not completely solve the problem. Not only are the scam artists using the on line resumes but are also posting fraudulent job postings and as part of the 'application process' asking for information such as birth date and SSN. Often inexperienced job seekers, perhaps like the students you spoke to, will comply with this.

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    This is so true. I was just speaking to a HR grad class at our local university on recruitment and ALL of them had their information posted on at least 1 job board (name, address, school, etc). We had a long discussion on the downside of it. The teacher was amazed that we even talked about it and really thought that monster.com and other job boards "screened" who had access to them...I think there needs to be a shift on the job boards to automatically not post a persons address. For the most part, people use email and the phone now days anyway.