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Saturday, November 16, 2013
[Selling hope...]
I joined a job site recently. While I am not actively looking, I do know of people who listed their information such sites and getting good offers from their next employer even when they are not looking for one.
This is not the first job site I joined. Most job sites are free for prospective employees. Employers or recruiters, I presume, will need to pay to use its services. Fair enough.
What made this new job site interesting was that it claimed to be for jobs which paid US$100K and above. I admit, that was one of the reasons why I joined. I never really looked through the jobs they had on the site, but the prospect of being listed on a site like that and being able to land a job in that income bracket was an attractive proposition.
Another point that sets this job site apart - prospective employees need to pay too.
And not cheap, I might add. We need to pay in order to view more job details or to view and respond to recruiter messages. This is the biggest difference between this job site and the rest. And this is why I don't think it's a good thing...
I am not against paying for services, such as job matching. In fact, I happily pay for my WhatsApp service. I really shouldn't say this, but I wouldn't mind paying more, in fact. But that's another story. In this instance, let's see what we're paying for.
Being a job site, what you would pay for is access to quality job listings, the chance to apply for the ones that interest you, and the subsequent successful acquirement of one of these quality positions. The difference between this and say, buying a loaf of bread is that you get the bread immediately upon payment. Here, the ultimate goal, one would assume, is the successful acquirement of a high-paying, quality position. However, upon payment, that is not what you get. Far from it.
So after paying the rather-high subscription fee, we see the job listings. While I can't say I've gone through all the listings (I got a free 7-day pass), all the ones I came across are posted by recruiters and we don't know the actual company offering the position.
Which begs my next question - how do I know these positions are even real?
If I were completely devious, I would say that this is their business model. They lure you in with the promise of access to high-paying job positions. You pay, hoping to land one of them. Job listings are all posted by recruiters so you have no idea what the companies are, or even if they are real. For all anyone knows, it could be just one guy writing random JDs and posting them, together with a phony recruiter's photograph. After a while, you get sick of it and no longer renew your subscription. Some of these "recruiters" send you a private message on the site. You log in to read the message, and realise you need to subscribe in order to read their messages. Thinking maybe your day has finally arrived, you shell out for the subscription one more time but the message turns out to be one asking to "connect". Whatever that is. Oh, I started using quotes around the word "recruiters" because I just remembered that I don't recall seeing the recruiter's company or agency ever being listed on the job listing. Their photograph is always there, I bet, to give you the impression you're reading something posted by a real person.
I am, of course, talking about RegionUp.
While I cannot prove the above, and might even consider paying for a subscription as I have outstanding messages on the site, I can't help but wonder about the legitimacy of their business model.
^^^ by Locksley @ 6:01 PM.
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