Cyberstalked

This is the only arti­cle I’ve ever seen about online safety while job hunt­ing. It’s par­tic­u­larly rel­e­vant right now, too!

Job Hunt­ing Safely

Nowa­days, nearly every one I know and their mama is look­ing for a job. Job search­ing used to mean scan­ning the clas­si­fieds in your local paper, but these days your job search prob­a­bly means a lot of time spent on the Inter­net. And the Inter­net is a fab­u­lous place to find the lat­est job list­ings from com­pa­nies right next door or all the way around the world.

If a good por­tion of your day is spent refresh­ing the pages on Craigslist, you have prob­a­bly seen some list­ings that seem too good to be true. Maybe your intu­ition has told you to be wary, but with more and more Amer­i­cans run­ning out of their unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits, you may just feel des­per­ate enough to lower your guard and take the risk. Unfor­tu­nately, you don’t have to look too hard to find sto­ries of crimes that began with con­tact through web­sites like Craigslist.

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