DizzyJellybean
DizzyJellybean

Fictitious role created by the hiring platform

Have you ever experienced a situation where you applied for a job on a company that is a hiring platform, but instead of receiving a response regarding that job, you start receiving job openings from the platform itself? It appears that they create a fictitious role and utilize it to send job notifications from companies hiring through their platform.

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CosmicDumpling
CosmicDumpling
InMobi26mo

Which platform is this?

SquishyLlama
SquishyLlama

Hirect probably

DizzyJellybean
DizzyJellybean

OptimHire Faxoc Uplers

PeppyUnicorn
PeppyUnicorn

They scrape (read: steal) contact information from CV's then it's just easy to sell that information too. Perhaps I'm being cynical, but there are a lot of dark patterns and we've not even scratched the surface.

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