Startwire – Startwire.com scam


If you ever get a notice or see a posting from Startwire, quickly delete and do not apply! Going through the process of looking for a job is stressful enough without being inundated with tons of spam-job-posting emails. Your resume is your representative to the business community, don’t let your information become a commodity to be bought and sold by resume “puppy-mills”.

By applying for a job via Startwire, they take your application and create an account for you with their service, and then unknown to you share your information with every job posting search engine on the internet. Sounds good… at first. The next day your email account is inundated with emails from +30 different job posting sites all with results from assumed keywords that have been pulled from your resume. For example, I am a biologist with experience working with the oil & gas industry in which I have collaborated with various engineers, in addition, at one time was an assistant professor at a university; thus now my email account is full of job postings for professors of engineering, along with every other combination of these keywords plus extras (Seriously, how do you get “Virtual Sr Platform Engineer” or “Starbucks Barista Co School of Mines” from Senior Biology / Project Manager?).

What makes this worse is that each of these search engine companies (Jobsreport, Hirewire, Dice Jobs, Lensa, etc.…) all have created accounts for me (with daily emails) and are now asking for me to pick my password. I spent the morning removing all these accounts and unsubscribing; some of this you can do from your unwanted Startwire account. However, you can’t delete your account unless you contact them directly.

The recurring lesson here is to look before you leap even when you think they are trying to help you. So, next week I start my job as a “Virtual Sr Starbucks Barista Engineer at the Colorado School of Mines”! Do you want one or two shots of oil with that Caramel Brulee Frappuccino?

from: James 2/7/2017

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