Saudi Arabia's job market is full of fake job offers and most victims could not say about it or were never listened to, whether in the field of medicine, engineering, nursing and even labour, fake job offers are everywhere. Thousand of foreign works fall prey to such offers and end up loosing their hard earned money. This is a full guide about how to spot a fake job offer and keep yourself safe. To spot a fake job offer see for following points:
1. Pay for a Role
If you are asked by an agency, a person or anyone else to pay to be in an interview for a job, its a fake job offer. Whether its an online interview or in-person. Mostly these interviews are held online through video calls and even voice calls, the person interviewing the candidate hides his face or aim the camera to a wall and ask questions. The interview might look real, maybe they have knowledge about your field so that it feels real. The interviewer will ask candidate to pay a small fee or first salary in advance either while interview or at the end of interview. The interviewer or fake HR also creates a fake urgency which is explained below.
2. Fake urgency
Fake urgency is created by interviewer of HR. Telling candidate to sign the contract on the spot or send reply to the email we are sending within hours or a day otherwise you will loose this golden chance.
3. Fill a paid form
Some job offers are behind a paid wall, Candidates are asked to fill a form which opens after a small fee is paid. Usually a fee of SAR 30 or 50 is set and the scammers sends a link to pay either the form opens after payment or when a form is filled and submitted, All these forms reach nowhere its just a trap to receive money and candidates are deceived with a message sometimes "Only selected candidates will be called for interview". This way every candidate waits for a call or email and end up thinking he was rejected.
4. A job offer from an Unknown company
Most fake jobs have no company name and an agent contacts with a candidate via whatsapp claiming they are from a big company and all details will be revealed in interview.
5. Impersonation
Scammers use names of big companies and establishments and ask for money to get the job. Mostly used names are almarai, seder, esom, alfanar and nadec.