Comments on: English Major Discovers There’s Plenty of Competition at $13 An Hour

By: Michele Urban

Michele Urban — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:32:19 +0000

There are a lot of what recruiters refer to as “fishing expeditions” on all job boards. How to determine which are scams and which are legitimate is not easy. It’s mostly trial and error. Be on the look-out for red flags like $12-13/hour in Midtown Manahttan. Probably not very realistic.

This person’s experiment is a great (and sad) indicator of how many desperate people there are, who are still looking for work.

Tip to the job applicant: if you have 10+ years of experience for a job like that, you will most likely be passed by. The wasting of time is on the job-seeker, not the job-poster. You have to decide if you are REALLY the best fit for that job or are you just one of hundreds who can do it? If your answer is the latter, don’t bother applying. Why spend the time when you know YOU’D have trouble hiring you for that job?

Interesting experiment. Clearly the English major is not alone.

By: Lancea Longini

Lancea Longini — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:07:59 +0000

How about the collateral damage? Not only did he waster 650+ applicants’ time, but he offered false hope to these people.

Anyway… how do you advertise effectively on Craigslist?

There are so many scam job ads out there; he could od this because most of the time it’s a free or cheap place to post. I recommend including the name of your company in the job title so that job seekers can quickly see that you are for real, and then some contact information or a physical address in the ad itself.

By: Duane Hill

Duane Hill — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:14:06 +0000

Great article. This is precisely why I advised my two current college attending children to take a programming class during their first two years at school . . . While there apparently is an unemployment problem nationally, there is very little unemployment in IT.

Happy Friday!

Duane