Verify the company and the role: pay attention to the job advertisement content
Before responding to a job advertisement, you should check whether the salary and requirements of the vacancy are realistic and in line with market levels, and should not readily trust recruitment advertisements that claim “no experience or academic qualifications required” yet offer “high salary and good benefits”.
Verify the fees: legitimate companies generally do not ask employees to bear costs
Legitimate companies generally do not ask employees to bear any costs. If you are asked to pay a large membership fee, or required to enrol in training courses or other programmes at your own expense to upgrade your skills before being hired, you should stay alert, as this is likely to be a fake recruitment exercise aimed at defrauding you of money. Scammers also disguise themselves as recruiters and charge unreasonable fees under various pretexts and names, such as registration fees, data-processing fees, administrative fees and work-permit fees.
Verify the personal data requirements: avoid excessive collection
During online job hunting, if you need to provide personal data, please consider whether the employer’s request is reasonable and whether there is a risk of excessive collection of personal data. Some scammers, under the guise of recruitment, obtain important personal data from job seekers, such as identity card, bank account and credit card details. Scammers may also defraud job seekers of money or extract personal data during interviews, and then steal bank deposits or use the obtained information to carry out unlawful activities.
Interview safety and refusing unreasonable demands
When attending an interview, keep your personal safety in mind, avoid going alone to abnormally remote locations for interviews, and pay attention to whether the interview process is unduly perfunctory. If an employer makes unreasonable demands, you should refuse them outright, and certainly should not carry out illegal work for the employer. If you find that the job involves multi-level commission (i.e. so-called pyramid selling) and the goods sold are more expensive than those on the market, or you are asked to pay a large membership fee, and are persuaded to recruit members (including relatives, friends and classmates) to become their downline staff in order to earn profits, rather than focusing on product sales, you should decline the job.