Tips In Detecting Fake Internet Job Offers?

Times are hard and people are going gaga over jobs abroad. However, you have to be wary of Internet job offers as they might be fake and will only lead to more debts for you.

There are unscrupulous people in the Internet and the popularity of the World Wide Web has made everyone a fodder for these people. Here are some tips to determine if the job offer you are getting is fake or legitimate:

There is money involved

The modus operandi of these people is to advertise in legitimate sites like BestJobs or Craiglist. When you bite and submit your applications they will tell you that you have been hired and will send you a job offer with very good salary rates. They will also give you a bank account number and will ask you to send an initial payment for the processing of your work permit. When this happens, do not send anything even a single centavo to the recruiter. Follow the next tips.

Check the company website

In most cases, the recruiter will use a legitimate company so you will really see an existing website. However, check the human resource officer or the signatory of the letter sent to you and search the name of the person on the company website. Better yet, call the company or send them an email and inquire if they are indeed hiring and if they authorized person so and so to recruit and collect money for them.

Check the embassy rules and regulations
Most embassies, if not all, do not require the worker to process his work permit. If you read the hiring process as per the embassy's advice, it is the duty of the company to provide working permits for the recruits after they have been issued a work order by the labor department of their countries to show that such vacancy could not be filled with their country's workforce for some reason.

A job offer for Canada should not come with a recruitment fee

The Canadian embassy has warned workers that the country does not allow the imposition of recruitment fees for workers. If a job offer bound for Canada carries this condition then it is definitely a fake or the recruiter is working on his own without authority from the proper offices.

Email the recruiter and tell him your findings

Send an email to the recruiter citing the results of your research. For sure, he will no longer respond to your email.

These are some tips which could screen you from possible Internet work for hire scams so follow them to the letter. The rule of thumb is, when there is money involved even before you are interview by the employer or even before you get on that place then that work for hire offer should be subject to closer scrutiny!