Imposter recruiters taking over the job market
www.abc.net.au
Sophisticated fraudsters posing as recruiters and using other dubious tactics are taking advantage of desperate jobseekers after announcing they're #opentowork.

"LinkedIn’s latest Job Search Safety Pulse report has found Australians are more vulnerable to recruitment scams than ever.

Nearly half of the people surveyed for that report said they would take risks when applying for jobs due to ongoing cost-of-living pressures.

More than a third said they would be more likely to let their guard down.

Questioning whether a job is “actually real” has also become a routine part of the job search, according to the LinkedIn report.

The same report found 61 per cent of Australians had seen a job ad that they suspected was fraudulent and 27 per cent have come close to falling for one.

Around 16 per cent of the respondents said they had fallen victim to job scams.

For younger gen Z jobseekers, born between 1997 and 2012, employment scam victim percentages rose to 25 per cent."