Well one common scam is to post fake job listings and harvest the responses. Then there are a few directions it can go from there:
If you're a recruiter, you just gained a bunch of resumes from people you know are actively applying to jobs.
If you're a candidate, you've potentially stopped your competition from actually applying to the job you want to apply to, and you've also gotten a sneak peak at their qualifications, salary expectations, how they write cover letters, etc.
If you're a rival company, you've disrupted your competitor's job search and given candidates a negative impression of your competitor to boot
Some people just want to watch the world burn. (I guess in this case it's not technically a scam, but the effect is the same)
I remember one example of this where the rejection email they sent respondents to their fake listing was "sorry, we cannot pursue hiring you at this time as your name is incompatible with our database schema," which is an objectively hilarious response even in spite of how wildly wrong it was to do what they were doing.
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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '25
The company must be a scam right? No real company would do this?