The Biggest Recruitment Scams Tech Job Seekers Fall For and How to Avoid Them

November 13, 2025
• 12:00 PM
November 13, 2025
Online

With 83% of people citing their career as the most important driver of financial security and mental wellbeing, the size of the recruitment and careers industry is unsurprising.

Unfortunately, this attracts some bad apples, and the recruitment and careers sector has its fair share of service issues, bad practices and downright scams.

Knowing how to identify and avoid these booby traps can save tech job seekers an awful lot of time, aggravation and even money.

In our upcoming webinar, we’ll be exposing some of these hidden dangers including:

✔️ Why some recruiters advertise ‘non-mandated’ roles to harvest candidates
✔️ How some recruiters are advertising fake vacancies to sell non-recruitment services
✔️ How scammers are taking money from unsuspecting tech job seekers
✔️ The truth about some career management companies
✔️ How to avoid your CV being used as a marketing tool by recruiters
✔️ How to work out which CV appraisal services are a scam
✔️ Why many ATS optimisation scanners are fundamentally flawed
✔️ The truth about ATS and why much of what you are told is nonsense
✔️ How to keep your personal data safe whilst applying for jobs
✔️ The shocking truth about some CV writing companies

…and much more

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