The Job Hunt

I had a chance meeting with a young guy who referred me to his company. I told him I was graduating soon and he said I would be a good fit for the position, so he gave me his name and number and told me to call up his business in the city.

Everything seemed to check out, I Googled the company and found their website, read about their company and the job description, and decided to call in to see if I could set up an interview. Earlier today I set up an interview for tomorrow at lunch--smooth sailing.

I am pretty thorough when it comes to job interviews--I like to know exactly what a company does so I can plan exactly what I'm going to say. I especially like testimonials of people who've interviewed with the same company so I can get a heads-up on the types of interview questions they use. What I found instead were very alarming warnings of how the company sucks in desperate college graduates and people who have been out of work for a long time and scams them out of time and money.

I always take everything with a grain of salt at first, so I continued researching. What I found was that the site I was looking at (ripoffreport.com) actually has a lot of complaints from business owners who stated that the company posts fradulent complaints about their businesses and then tries to extort them for money to have the fradulent claims removed.

Naturally, I was horrified. How many freaking scams are on the internet?? Why isn't anyone regulating these things? Because really, I'm pretty sure that a good deal of people have actually fallen prey to these scams. I really do think that more should be done to combat this outbreak.

I did some more research on the company and determined that it really is a scam. This isn't the first run-in with job scams that I've had. I am generally wary of jobs I apply for on the internet, especially Craigslist. However, I was very surprised that this guy that I met in person, who seemed to be a stand-up, congenial, honest person, actually looked me in the eye and offered me this kind of job. Ha... you can hardly trust anyone these days.

So I was thinking about going to this interview anyway, and writing a little expose' of their interview process. I'm not so sure I want to get involved with this though. I could be spending my time doing much more lucrative and creative things. I'm just glad I found out about this scam before I took off of work and bought a new suit jacket just to interview with these fools. I feel compelled to mention the name of the company on here, just to warn others about this horrible scam, but, alas, not until I decide whether I want to go to that interview and observe this scam further.

--SLedbetter