Question:
Job posting says "email if interested" but there is no email provided?
Lisa C.B.
7 years ago
The only email I found on their website is a general info email ( I doubt that the person in charge of hiring checks it)

I already applied through Indeed (where I found the job) Should I still send my resume to the email that I found ?
Four answers:
Bort
7 years ago
This is why wise people stay away from harvest sites like indeed. You have apparently found a fake listing.

Indeed is not the best place to go when you're searching for employment because you have to be really careful on that site and many sites like it (Monster, Snagajob, LinkedIn, there are probably thousands or even billions of them since harvesting online content and reposting it is not illegal) because while an employer can post directly to Indeed.com not a lot of them do. Why? Because they don't need to because indeed will find their ad and post it anyway because that's what it does.



Indeed is an automated system that creeping toms the internet for something that says it's a job listing and reposts it. If something says it's a job listing this automated system is not capable of investigating in to it like a human can to determine whether it's real or not. This one is very likely not a real posting it's just one of the millions of listings that crappy site (indeed) found, harvested, and put in the list for the only purpose being to increase search results.



Indeed isn't the only one that ends up also having fake listings that could actually be a scam. Always, always, ALWAYS do your research if you haven't heard about a company you're considering applying to. You have to research absolutely everything any more to insure for yourself that it's actually real and not either fake or some kind of scam.



Use a Search Engine and search the company name

Use a Search Engine and search the phone number if t here is one

Use a Search Engine and search any email address, name of a person, physical (postal) address of the company.

If the listing and company is legitimate and real results will be more info about the company or person you searched.

If search results come up with nothing or a bunch of unrelated, irrelevant, and different things...that means it's fake / scam.



Don't give your personal information (like what's usually on a persons resume) to entities you're not sure of. Those dirty scammers and ID thieves will do anything they can think of to get real people's info to use. Posting a fake job opportunity is one of their dirty tricks.



Be careful, do your research on where you're thinking of applying to if it's not a listing found on a government supported job board and even if it's a government supported job board scammers and ID thieves have managed to get some listings posted even on those "secure" websites.



Go ahead and give and use your real name and address and phone number to and on your facebook too. That's just as good of an idea as putting all of that information on roadside billboards too.
tro
7 years ago
if that is the only email then that is where you send it
Maxi
7 years ago
if you have already applied via indeed, you do not need to apply again
anonymous
7 years ago
Why are you applying for the same job twice?


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