Are we allowed to post/share WFH opportunities?

[Oizys Moros]

Skimmed through the rules and guidelines. Didn’t come across any restrictions as far as job post sharing. Just restrictions on advertising and whatnot.

anyways - came across a company that lists operations in 5 countries currently for entry level work from home jobs.

I do not have any affiliation with them. But if anyone is interested in information for any job resources, let me know and I will share what I come across.

 

[LumberJack]

I have no clue, either. Just speaking for myself, I don't think it would be terrible as long as it's in this subforum and not like everyday or more frequently. That said, I know a lot of these are scams where they harvest your phone # and then you get spam from all over the world that is even more scams. source: I'm an idiot. So, like a disclaimer stating whether or not you have researched this and know for a fact that it's legit or if we need to do our own due diligence. My main concern would be that on SF there are a lot of vulnerable people who might be more trusting, and scammers are always on the lookout for easy prey. I'm kind of back & forth about keeping it to just mentioning you came across something and saying something like hit my inbox if interested. My first thought was that this would be a good idea, but then I thought that if it's out in the open we can crowdsource the due diligence and flag the sketchy ones. Again, I would not want to be the final word on that.

Tagging @Freya , @Angie for visibility. I fear I'm missing a few others but my guess is that the two of you who are tagged would be able to tag them as appropriate.

 

[Oizys Moros]

My main concern would be that on SF there are a lot of vulnerable people who might be more trusting,

Thank you for addressing this aspect of it.
I will err on the side of caution and not post such information because I won’t fully vet a job opening, further than seeing if they have a legit looking website. Scammers can easily get a website, I presume.

I don’t trust businesses using a gmail email. Seems like their .com would be their business domain name.

Thank you.

 

[LumberJack]

I don’t trust businesses using a gmail email. Seems like their .com would be their business domain name.
Thank you.

I still would not trust a given opportunity just because they have a slick website. I've learned that lesson on my own. It's not hard to alias a gmail account to a whatever-you-want-that-is-available.com address, in fact Google is shoving it down my throat every time I log in. The fee is nominal for someone wishing to set up a fly by night business.

That said, using a free email host is a dead giveaway. It's low effort and usually the work of beginners. When it's not, it's because they actually want to filter anyone with a single milligram of savvy out. That way they can focus their time on the most gullible marks. Source: the genre of YT vids about "scamming the scammers."

I hate that it is this way, but usually the scammers are in a very poor area where running a scam is 10-50 or more times profitable than the next best option, even if they only pull in a few dollars a week.

 

[LumberJack]

oh dang - I forgot another important issue - legit jobs don't just come out of nowhere. Especially in this market, anything that is overtly outgoing is automatically suspect in my view. In the legit job market, WFH jobs in my field have 700 people applying for the same position. HR does NOT need to do outreach/campaign for candidates.