Saturday, July 17, 2010

JobsCentral is being Flooded by Financial Planners

With our previous post in March 2010, regarding "Jobs finding website spam from insurance and MLM companies", it seems that the team of friendly staffs from job-seeking site JobsCentral cannot get rid of spammers before they start to haunt all the members.

Spams from JobsCentral users

Please refer to above image (click to view in full). Ever since opting in to receive requests for viewing personal online portfolio, no company representative has made request to view it, except for the full list of spams from financial advisors to recruit members.

If you wish to become a fulltime financial planner, you may try updating your resume there. You can probably leave it empty and the nasty financial planners will still approach you because it involves in almost no cost for them to employ more people. After you pay and pass the basic tests to get the certificates, you may become a financial planner as well to sell the basic insurance plans. You can start earning but you have to give part of your sales commission to the person who has recruited you, as overriding fee.

Oh... so.... it's easy money to start spamming to recruit more members so that you can sit at home and shake your legs.

1 comments:

wonderdoggy88 said...

Dear Blogger,

Thank you for the feedback about the issue of financial planners. JobsCentral is one of the largest job portals in Singapore and we take all feedback from jobseekers very seriously. Please do allow me to explain what the process is like for database mining and how users can avoid such emails if you do not want to work as a financial consultant.

Method 1) Jobseekers can switch off database mining completely when they login under the preferences tab. This is the best way to prevent anybody from seeing your resume.

Method 2) If you still want Employment Agencies and Direct Employers to mine your resume, you can also choose to just exclude Insurance Firms. This is a new feature we added in earlier this year just to cater for this group.

Based on the screenshot, I suspect your setting is to allow all groups to mine and you are selecting the "Ask me first" option. This option allows you to decide whether to allow or not the employer to view your resume. They do not have your details yet until you say yes.

I would suggest that you just switch off the mining feature or just choose the exclude Financial Planner option. We would be glad to do it for you if you email us your email login id at dershing@jobscentral.com.sg

We agree that FP are rather more aggressive but they are offering a bona fide job. So we believe the right solution is not to ban them from mining but to allow jobseekers to block them by indicating preference.

Please do feel free to contact us for more information or if you need any clarification. Again, thank you for the feedback and the chance to reply.

warm regards,
Lim Der Shing
JobsCentral Pte Ltd