common employment traps
The following paragraphs provide more detailed information of some common employment traps.
Trap 1: Pyramid Selling Schemes
Be cautious about sales jobs offering handsome pay or generous commissions. Some marketing companies or companies of direct sales place recruitment advertisements and persistently persuade applicants during job interviews to buy their goods in order to join the sales business. Job seekers may be persuaded to get an overdraft or a loan from financial institutions. Some may even go into bankruptcy if they fail to repay the loan. If you find that the job involves hierarchical sharing of commission (i.e. pyramid selling) and the prices of the goods are higher than the market prices; or participants have to pay a large sum of money to join the scheme and make profit through recruiting scheme members (including relatives and friends) as your lower-tiered staff rather than selling products, you should decline the job offer.
Trap 2: Vice Traps
Many entertainment establishments may engage in vice activities in disguise. Usually, the operators use high-paying jobs to attract job seekers who will uncover the truth only after they have signed the contracts.
Trap 3: Talent Scout Scams
Some people introduce themselves as representatives from modelling agencies or dubbing companies. They approach internet surfers or passers-by and claim that they have great potential to be models in commercials, singers, movie stars or fitting models, thereby inducing them to pay fees for training classes, beauty services or fitness courses; or even camera charges, recommendation fee or deposits. However, no job may be referred eventually and the money paid will not be returned. Some job seekers may even fall into vice traps.
Trap 4: Financial and Investment Scams
Some swindlers pose themselves as operators of foreign exchange investment or marketing companies and offer handsome pay to enlist job seekers for the posts of clerk, copyist and cleaning staff, etc. They then
Trap 1: Pyramid Selling Schemes
Be cautious about sales jobs offering handsome pay or generous commissions. Some marketing companies or companies of direct sales place recruitment advertisements and persistently persuade applicants during job interviews to buy their goods in order to join the sales business. Job seekers may be persuaded to get an overdraft or a loan from financial institutions. Some may even go into bankruptcy if they fail to repay the loan. If you find that the job involves hierarchical sharing of commission (i.e. pyramid selling) and the prices of the goods are higher than the market prices; or participants have to pay a large sum of money to join the scheme and make profit through recruiting scheme members (including relatives and friends) as your lower-tiered staff rather than selling products, you should decline the job offer.
Trap 2: Vice Traps
Many entertainment establishments may engage in vice activities in disguise. Usually, the operators use high-paying jobs to attract job seekers who will uncover the truth only after they have signed the contracts.
Trap 3: Talent Scout Scams
Some people introduce themselves as representatives from modelling agencies or dubbing companies. They approach internet surfers or passers-by and claim that they have great potential to be models in commercials, singers, movie stars or fitting models, thereby inducing them to pay fees for training classes, beauty services or fitness courses; or even camera charges, recommendation fee or deposits. However, no job may be referred eventually and the money paid will not be returned. Some job seekers may even fall into vice traps.
Trap 4: Financial and Investment Scams
Some swindlers pose themselves as operators of foreign exchange investment or marketing companies and offer handsome pay to enlist job seekers for the posts of clerk, copyist and cleaning staff, etc. They then