Job Search Privacy

Information about job scams.

Information and research about job scams.

Job search privacy — The World Privacy Forum’s popular resume posting guide, 12 Resume Posting Truths, has been updated. This update is part of an ongoing project on job search privacy. The World Privacy Forum has extensive materials on job search privacy and job scams.

Job scams are as old as jobs themselves. In past years, con artists would put a bad job ad up, fool a job seeker into giving up their money, and then physically move on to a new city. Now bad job ads have moved onto the Internet, with devastating consequences. The very things that make the Internet so effective for job seekers — speed, convenience, and a nationwide job search from a computer screen — are the same things that make it effective for fraudulent activity. Job seekers and job sites have unfortunately been targeted with sophisticated triangulation scams that move rapidly and seamlessly through a selection of job sites from coast to coast in a matter of days.

The World Privacy Forum’s Workplace Privacy Project is a long term project to study and document privacy practices in the areas of job applicant privacy, workplace privacy, background checks, and related areas.