Just noticed something interesting with a few listings.
It looks like a handful of nascent job boards have devised a strategy to gain more user profiles by basically suckering candidates into registering profiles, based on job listings they had placed in more popular job sites, like LinkedIn or GlassDoor.
Looks like The Mom Project and Business Draft do this.
The Basic Strategy
Here’s an example, they post a listing for a Web Developer on LinkedIn.
They make it ‘remote’ to really pump the numbers up.
They then set up the hustle so candidates click the link and are taken to their own registration process, that part in itself isn’t that suspicious, a lot of companies do this, this is where the joke about having to enter your resume info twice comes from.
But most companies don’t have an active job board. These ones do.
The Mom Project is kinda funny because I registered with them, I mean I guess it’s nice they don’t discriminate, right? Both of these companies seem to really enjoy spamming you after you register, like, “Oh hey finish your profile to apply to that job you wanted to check out!” Actually, not sure if that’s exactly what some of their emails say, but they do seem to suggest that.
In Conclusion
Shit comes off feeling real predatory. I don’t even know if there’s a term for this, kind of like a job listing bait-and-switch.
Anyways, stay vigilant!