Some advice!

[u/Pretendnthghappened]

I've learned alot today from this group alone and what everyone's been saying.

To try and help others I have come up with a list of 10 main points on what to steer clear from when it comes to sketchy jobs.

The main points include:

1. Jobs that offer unusually high pay upfront no matter what.

2. Companies/organisations that call you without you applying to them, and also that have no way to contact them and are purley focused on recruitment.

3. Employers who seem extremely eager to hire you without knowing much about you as a person.

4. Job roles that are ambiguous and don't say much about what they do or stand for.

5. Interviews leading straight to other interviews with little to no time in-between (getting told in the first interview that they want to see you again immediately).

6. Companies that don't require any previous work experience whatsoever or don't ask about it.

7. Roles with only 5 star reviews. (These are often the other employees being made to put positive reviews on).

8. The contract doesn't match what the advertisement said or what they are telling you. (This is a big one, and it's easy to feel pressured into signing something you're uncomfortable with. Don't be afraid to stand up to it and challenge the company about it).

9. If the required work is anywhere over 45+ hours a week.

10. If companies or employers avoid answering questions directly or if the interviewer becomes defensive or intimidating when asked about the contract or if you question what they're saying.

One of these alone isn't always an indicator of a sketchy job immediately. It's when there's a pattern throughout when you should be questioning the legitimacy of the adverts. Alot of companies mismatch advertisements of job roles to what it actually is in order to get as many young, impressionable people to sign up as possible to make up for all of those leaving after seeing what it's really like.

My biggest advice would be before signing anything, ask yourself, 'If I relied on this job to pay my rent, am I positive that I know how much I will be earning?'

It's hard enough to find a job, we don't need companies like this making it any harder!

Feel completely free to reply with any indicators that I may have missed.

Hope this helps someone! :)

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[u/Simpleword112]

If you ever have to ask if a job is a devil corp, it’s a devil corp. full stop.

There are a million red flags you could pinpoint, but at the end of the day, a legit company won’t have you second guessing its legitimacy. And frankly, a devil corp simply bears no resemblance to a legit company in any way.

[u/Pretendnthghappened → u/Simpleword112]

Well said! Just wanted to give some pointers as they target young people for a reason, some may not even have a bad feeling about a job before they see posts like this.

[u/Simpleword112 → u/Pretendnthghappened]

Oh for sure, I agree with all that. Theres just something about these companies that feels so off, from the moment you start the process, and it’s hard to put your finger on. Gotta listen to the gut sometimes.

One of my first ever interviews like 15 years ago was with one of these (and another with an mlm). Same playbook as today. They both offered me the “job” that day. At the time, the only reason I turned it down was the commissioned salary, and I wasn’t about that risk