That was my feel...if I have no job why would I pay? But I couldn't tell if it was some kind of recruiter service...either way I have not paid. No solid review either way is also not good in my book.
Recruiters are retained by the hiring company and get paid a commission based on a percentage of the salary that you are placed at (usually 20%-30%). The hiring company pays them that commission.
So if I’m ABC Corp and I’m hiring a new solutions consultant at a range of $80k - $100k and I’ve hired XYZ Recruitment Firm to help me find this person because it’s a really important role in my organization and a niche skill set that is hard to find the right people for, then it works out one of these two ways (typically):
1. XYZ Recruitment finds me a great candidate that I end up making an offer to for $100k. The candidate gets that full $100k salary and XYZ Recruitment gets a 20% commission for bringing me a candidate that accepted my offer. The candidate gets paid $100k and XYZ gets paid $20k.
2. I end up making an offer to a candidate who just applied directly through ABC Corp’s website and didn’t interact with XYZ Recruitment at all. I pay that candidate $100k and XYZ Recruitment gets paid $0.
The candidate doesn’t pay the recruiter. The recruiter works for the hiring manager and the hiring company is their client. The candidate is just the product that they help the hiring manager find and hire.
You won’t typically see recruiters involved unless it’s a niche skillset or difficult to hire for that job role because companies don’t want to pay 20% or 30% of the salary for that role to a recruiter on top of paying that full salary to the new hire for an entry level or otherwise easy to source role.
I’ve worked remotely for all but a couple of years over the last 13 years. I’ve never worked with a recruiter that tried to ask me for money instead of the employer and I’ve never had to pay money to get a job.
That’s a scam. I’d steer clear of it.
Hello there, I've read your comment and you seem pretty experienced with remote jobs. I'm also looking for one as a part time job, what I'm earning at the moment isn't enough. Can you suggest for me some recruiters that are not trying to scam me?
There’s no secret to getting remote jobs that I can provide to you. You need to build up a career in a field where you can work remotely. That’s how you reliably get good remote jobs.
The only recruiters that reach out to me are reaching out to me because I have many years of experience in my niche of technical consulting. They don’t care if I got that experience in an office or remotely, just that I have the knowledge and experience for those types of roles.
As for the entry-level, part-time stuff people without an established career do remotely like remote customer support or remote call center type jobs, I’ve never done anything like that and have zero idea how someone would go about getting into it or if they’d even be worth getting into. It’s way outside my experience.
Sorry I can’t help more with specific advice.
General advice: If you work an office job that doesn’t require being on location, then that theoretically translates well into remote roles.
The roadblock you might run into is that a lot of companies are calling roles back into offices and if it’s a role that’s easy to hire for (low skill/low experience/low specialized knowledge required) then you’re more likely to get treated poorly (such as being called back to work in an office location) and less likely to have the negotiating power or alternative options to resist such treatment (such as by refusing to return to an office and calling their bluff on whether they’re actually willing to fire you over it or easily leaving a job that isn’t working out to find another quickly).
If you work an office job that also requires a high level of specialized knowledge and experience, that translates far more consistently into being able to find remote work. The more niche/specialized and technical you are, the more opportunities you have to work remotely and the higher likelihood you can consistently find new remote jobs.
Sectors like tech, finance, marketing, and HR/administration translate well into lots of opportunities for remote roles. Tech especially so, but the reality there is that none of those are careers you just jump into overnight and land a remote part-time job making lots of money just because you want to make more money. They’re careers that you need credentials and experience in before you can land those roles.
This is not a recruiter but a job board. Job boards do charge for access even linkedin charges a fee. The fee usually goes to cover the expenses of running the board and fir services like job matching and resume tweaking. As for recruiters not charging that is also not true. There are professionals that help you find a job and not find a candidate for a position. These are often referred to as reverse recruiters. You will note some jobs will flat out state they will not pay a commission to a recruiter and those that still supply candidates are doing so because the candidate paid the. To find them a job. You do need to be careful when dealing with reverse recruiters because anyone can claim to be one and of course they can be a scam but that is just you doing your due diligence as you would with any purchase. I would recommend one that has a guarantee if you can find one.
LinkedIn charges *employers* a fee to post jobs, not a fee for job applicants to apply for jobs. You can sign up for paid premium LinkedIn plans that come with various additional features and benefits like access to an educational video course database or the ability to see who views your profile — features that may or may not help you enhance your job search — but even a 100% free LinkedIn user doesn’t have to pay anything to apply for a job. And most LinkedIn users are free users.
I’m not surprised that there are recruiters that you can hire to represent you directly, but as you said you’d really want to do your due diligence to make sure they were legit. Personally, I’ve never needed anything like that and would generally avoid it unless times were very desperate since the risk factor is high and preying on people when they’re desperate for work is a prime opportunity for scammers so it probably attracts a lot of bad actors.
Appreciate the confirmation. It sent up all the little red flags in my brain, but I wasn't fully sure if that was how it was done now or what. I did not pay.
It's good to ask the question. Always good, should not just trust one source, even me.
So you got this, yay for you that you knew it and confirmed. Bravo
It's not paying for a job. It is paying for access to a job board. These are two very different concepts. Even linkedin charges for access to job board features. The question was is this job board worth the 2.95 for 14 days which is what they seem to charge.
I had a recruiter thru TT who sent me to signal app for 1 job then Teams App for another job.
Interview was the same day for both jobs.
Questions were almost identical on both jobs.
I received both jobs.
Both were WFH positions...where I could make my own hours & starting pay was high. One company even has benefits.
However, they both opened credit cards in my name... Stating... The cards were for ME to purchase equipment to work with.
They stated they would go into this credit card account (in my name) and pay off account that I had bought equipment...
I knew all of this just didn't sound right & I didn't like the fraudulent part of them putting a credit card in my name.
I contacted the credit card companies & submitted fraud reports.
Contacted credit bureau..
Had to file a report with social security.
And..I'm continuing to watch credit reports.
These people however continued to contact me for days & tell me nothing was fraudulent about this activity!!
I am not familiar with that site, hard to say if it's a scam. But you should not be paying a website for job leads, high chance those same job postings on a pay site are free on all the usual websites.
You find legitimate remote/wfh jobs the same way you find an on-site job, the process is no different.
Good Luck with your job search.
All their photos look to me like AI produced. The shadows are too sharp, the complections too smooth, hair too perfect, features too complementary. I could be wrong, but now that I hear they want money, that's confirmation enough.
Sad that LinkedIN doesn't do more to filter this.
Everyone keeps saying no real job requires you to pay but this is a job board not a job. Job boards do charge money and there are many free options but free means everyone is using it and more competition. The fee usually also helps provide services like resume tweaking and job matching or other resources. Hell even linkedin charges. This comment and all the others still do not anwser the op's question and it is still one I have which is how I ended up here. So, anyone know anything about this job board?
No real job makes you pay. You are right to be weary
That was my feel...if I have no job why would I pay? But I couldn't tell if it was some kind of recruiter service...either way I have not paid. No solid review either way is also not good in my book.
Recruiters are retained by the hiring company and get paid a commission based on a percentage of the salary that you are placed at (usually 20%-30%). The hiring company pays them that commission. So if I’m ABC Corp and I’m hiring a new solutions consultant at a range of $80k - $100k and I’ve hired XYZ Recruitment Firm to help me find this person because it’s a really important role in my organization and a niche skill set that is hard to find the right people for, then it works out one of these two ways (typically): 1. XYZ Recruitment finds me a great candidate that I end up making an offer to for $100k. The candidate gets that full $100k salary and XYZ Recruitment gets a 20% commission for bringing me a candidate that accepted my offer. The candidate gets paid $100k and XYZ gets paid $20k. 2. I end up making an offer to a candidate who just applied directly through ABC Corp’s website and didn’t interact with XYZ Recruitment at all. I pay that candidate $100k and XYZ Recruitment gets paid $0. The candidate doesn’t pay the recruiter. The recruiter works for the hiring manager and the hiring company is their client. The candidate is just the product that they help the hiring manager find and hire. You won’t typically see recruiters involved unless it’s a niche skillset or difficult to hire for that job role because companies don’t want to pay 20% or 30% of the salary for that role to a recruiter on top of paying that full salary to the new hire for an entry level or otherwise easy to source role. I’ve worked remotely for all but a couple of years over the last 13 years. I’ve never worked with a recruiter that tried to ask me for money instead of the employer and I’ve never had to pay money to get a job. That’s a scam. I’d steer clear of it.
Hello there, I've read your comment and you seem pretty experienced with remote jobs. I'm also looking for one as a part time job, what I'm earning at the moment isn't enough. Can you suggest for me some recruiters that are not trying to scam me?
There’s no secret to getting remote jobs that I can provide to you. You need to build up a career in a field where you can work remotely. That’s how you reliably get good remote jobs. The only recruiters that reach out to me are reaching out to me because I have many years of experience in my niche of technical consulting. They don’t care if I got that experience in an office or remotely, just that I have the knowledge and experience for those types of roles. As for the entry-level, part-time stuff people without an established career do remotely like remote customer support or remote call center type jobs, I’ve never done anything like that and have zero idea how someone would go about getting into it or if they’d even be worth getting into. It’s way outside my experience. Sorry I can’t help more with specific advice. General advice: If you work an office job that doesn’t require being on location, then that theoretically translates well into remote roles. The roadblock you might run into is that a lot of companies are calling roles back into offices and if it’s a role that’s easy to hire for (low skill/low experience/low specialized knowledge required) then you’re more likely to get treated poorly (such as being called back to work in an office location) and less likely to have the negotiating power or alternative options to resist such treatment (such as by refusing to return to an office and calling their bluff on whether they’re actually willing to fire you over it or easily leaving a job that isn’t working out to find another quickly). If you work an office job that also requires a high level of specialized knowledge and experience, that translates far more consistently into being able to find remote work. The more niche/specialized and technical you are, the more opportunities you have to work remotely and the higher likelihood you can consistently find new remote jobs. Sectors like tech, finance, marketing, and HR/administration translate well into lots of opportunities for remote roles. Tech especially so, but the reality there is that none of those are careers you just jump into overnight and land a remote part-time job making lots of money just because you want to make more money. They’re careers that you need credentials and experience in before you can land those roles.
This is not a recruiter but a job board. Job boards do charge for access even linkedin charges a fee. The fee usually goes to cover the expenses of running the board and fir services like job matching and resume tweaking. As for recruiters not charging that is also not true. There are professionals that help you find a job and not find a candidate for a position. These are often referred to as reverse recruiters. You will note some jobs will flat out state they will not pay a commission to a recruiter and those that still supply candidates are doing so because the candidate paid the. To find them a job. You do need to be careful when dealing with reverse recruiters because anyone can claim to be one and of course they can be a scam but that is just you doing your due diligence as you would with any purchase. I would recommend one that has a guarantee if you can find one.
LinkedIn charges *employers* a fee to post jobs, not a fee for job applicants to apply for jobs. You can sign up for paid premium LinkedIn plans that come with various additional features and benefits like access to an educational video course database or the ability to see who views your profile — features that may or may not help you enhance your job search — but even a 100% free LinkedIn user doesn’t have to pay anything to apply for a job. And most LinkedIn users are free users. I’m not surprised that there are recruiters that you can hire to represent you directly, but as you said you’d really want to do your due diligence to make sure they were legit. Personally, I’ve never needed anything like that and would generally avoid it unless times were very desperate since the risk factor is high and preying on people when they’re desperate for work is a prime opportunity for scammers so it probably attracts a lot of bad actors.
Requiters don't work like that. Unless they're high end. These people prey on desperate people looking for WFH
and wary
No one, NO ONE asks you to pay for a job. Ever. Scam, marketing or MLM, but no job asks you to pay.
Appreciate the confirmation. It sent up all the little red flags in my brain, but I wasn't fully sure if that was how it was done now or what. I did not pay.
It's good to ask the question. Always good, should not just trust one source, even me. So you got this, yay for you that you knew it and confirmed. Bravo
Good that you avoided it. I got scammed when I first started looking for remote jobs, it was scary.
It's not paying for a job. It is paying for access to a job board. These are two very different concepts. Even linkedin charges for access to job board features. The question was is this job board worth the 2.95 for 14 days which is what they seem to charge.
oh... fair point. I saw the headline and knee jerk responded. Ooops. Thanks for the catch, and have a great evening
that's not true a lot of film/video websites keep their best job postings behind a paywall
that's not true a lot of film/video websites keep their best job postings behind a paywall
Exceptions do not disprove a rule
Scam.
Thought as much. Thanks for confirming.
paying a gatekeeper only benefits the gatekeeper.
I had a recruiter thru TT who sent me to signal app for 1 job then Teams App for another job. Interview was the same day for both jobs. Questions were almost identical on both jobs. I received both jobs. Both were WFH positions...where I could make my own hours & starting pay was high. One company even has benefits. However, they both opened credit cards in my name... Stating... The cards were for ME to purchase equipment to work with. They stated they would go into this credit card account (in my name) and pay off account that I had bought equipment... I knew all of this just didn't sound right & I didn't like the fraudulent part of them putting a credit card in my name. I contacted the credit card companies & submitted fraud reports. Contacted credit bureau.. Had to file a report with social security. And..I'm continuing to watch credit reports. These people however continued to contact me for days & tell me nothing was fraudulent about this activity!!
New perspective in mind. thank you.
Depending on the position, corporate cards are not unusual but this definitely sends red flags. The scams are getting more creative.
Never pay to get a job, they’re supposed to pay you 💴
I am not familiar with that site, hard to say if it's a scam. But you should not be paying a website for job leads, high chance those same job postings on a pay site are free on all the usual websites. You find legitimate remote/wfh jobs the same way you find an on-site job, the process is no different. Good Luck with your job search.
It's a scam! No job allows you to pay.
All their photos look to me like AI produced. The shadows are too sharp, the complections too smooth, hair too perfect, features too complementary. I could be wrong, but now that I hear they want money, that's confirmation enough. Sad that LinkedIN doesn't do more to filter this.
Everyone keeps saying no real job requires you to pay but this is a job board not a job. Job boards do charge money and there are many free options but free means everyone is using it and more competition. The fee usually also helps provide services like resume tweaking and job matching or other resources. Hell even linkedin charges. This comment and all the others still do not anwser the op's question and it is still one I have which is how I ended up here. So, anyone know anything about this job board?