SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 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