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from the get-the-pitchforks-and-torches dept.
Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter is familiar to many in the tech community for his career and employment advice. This week, Corcodilos' readers started chronicling the misdeeds of a recruiter variously known as 7F, SevenFigureCareers, 7Figure, and several other names in the comments section of one of his articles about recruiting scams. It seems 7F has been taking people's money and then failing to deliver on its promises:
"They promised interviews for six- and seven-figure jobs," said [7F victim John] Rice, "but delivered short phone calls with illiterate phonies."
As more and more information emerged, the crowdsourced evidence helped persuade credit card company American Express to terminate 7F's ability to do business through Amex. 7F has been stopped from scamming, but Corcodilos hopes Amex will pursue the matter until 7F "gets hauled before the authorities, goes to court, is tried, fined and goes to jail." I'm sure the people 7F scammed agree.
Any Soylentils out here do business with 7F or similar scummy recruiting firms? You might want to see about getting your money back.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jdavidb on Thursday October 13 2016, @08:51PM
I'm not trying to spam. I submitted the story because I thought it was interesting.
I do think Nick Corcodilos's employment newsletter is fantastic. Yes, he wants to sell you his ebooks and other services. IMO you can do just as well getting a used copy of his out of print original book Ask the Headhunter off of amazon or half.com. The newsletter is quite useful, and free, and doesn't typically focus on how to bust scammy companies. There's some good stuff on the website, too, but I recommend using the wayback machine because in recent years a lot of those have been truncated.
I doubt Corcodilos really needs any business from any of us here, but his advice is great. I once tried to set up a Slashdot interview for him but it fell through.
Perl programmer Andy Lester is the person who turned me on to Cocodilos's stuff, and he ended up writing his own book on hiring technical employees.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @05:44AM
I maybe overstated a bit and it may not even be intentionally spam on your part. But the whole site stinks of spam bait. It may not be but it is really tweaking my 'this is a scam' vibe hard. It is rarely wrong. It could be wrong as it is just a feeling. However, I highly suggest caution. It *seems* scammy.
I rarely take appeal to authority into account anymore the last scam I was dragged into (and it was giving me the same vibe) was because 'the richest guy in the area was investing in it'. My wife fell for it hard. So her dad talked us into it. When it fell through 2 months later (exactly as I predicted) the MLM turned out 'the rich guy' was near the top of the pyramid.
This sort of thing strikes me as preying on people in need of a job and are desperate and handing out money is their last hope for a job. Sorta scummy.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday October 15 2016, @01:34AM
This sort of thing strikes me as preying on people in need of a job and are desperate and handing out money is their last hope for a job. Sorta scummy.
I wouldn't recommend anyone who is desperate and in need of a job give Corcodilos money, and I doubt he does business with such people. Instead I recommend people who are in relatively good shape read his work and use it to plan their next career move several years down the road. It's worked well for me.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings