Monday, December 16, 2019

The Rise of the Fake Job Applicant

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The rise of the fake job applicant

I thought maybe this was about those job applicants who are just decoys for black supremacist organizations and fake scholars, who sent identical resumes, except that one has an all-American name, and another a ghetto name like "S--tavious." And then, when you don't call "S--tavious" in for an interview, they declare you to be "racist."


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The rise of the fake job applicant
Good morning,

A couple months ago at the annual Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala in Phoenix, I was deep in conversation with a group of founders about hiring--it's something every founder struggles with. One man spoke up, and within minutes, one thing became very clear: Daniel Zubairi was dealing with one heck of a hiring challenge.

Job seekers have been fudging their accomplishments forever. But Zubairi, the founder and CEO of Bethesda, Maryland-based cybersecurity firm SydanTech, said he had discovered something new and distinctly shadier. Totally false résumés featuring fictional employers. Covert coaching of candidates who had no experience, yet were somehow acing their interviews.

Another founder at the table, from a different industry and region of the country, said he'd experienced some of the exact same issues. So, after the conference, I decided to investigate a little. It turns out, fake job applicants and other forms of misinformation are starting to clog the entire U.S. job market, and the problem has been largely unreported--until now. 

Unemployment is at an all-time low, and when desperate job candidates encounter fast-growing startups with equally desperate hiring needs, sketchy situations ensue. Zubairi, a cybersecurity expert who is anything but naive, says he even identified a SydanTech employee who successfully faked his interview and worked at the company for nine months before being caught and fired.

If you think this trend is limited to a few rogue job applicants gone crazy, think again. This is a story about the unforeseen dangers of automation. A rise in scam opportunities for a surprising group of third-party middlemen. And on the other side, a whole bunch of vulnerable startups. Small businesses are at a higher risk for these kinds of scams than larger companies, one University of Chicago professor told me, simply because they have less money to fight against them.

Of course, being at risk doesn't mean there's nothing you can do. Zubairi and his cohorts have started to figure out how to fight back, and that's where this story--which you can find both online and in Inc.'s Winter 2019/2020 issue--gets interesting.

I hope you give it a read. Because if your company hasn't been hit by a modern 21st-century hiring scam yet, it likely will soon. And you'll need to be prepared.
HERE'S WHAT ELSE I'M READING TODAY:
Here are the pros and cons of remote work, and how to tell if it's right for your company. --Inc.

The founder of Bonobos was supposed to help reinvent Walmart. Two years later, he's leaving. --Vox

Looking to impress investors in 2020? Start by creating a winning business plan. --Inc.

Bill.com's IPO was a huge success. Here's why the company didn't pursue a direct listing. --TechCrunch (subscription required)

In case you missed them: the 10 best Shark Tank moments of 2019. --Inc.

Lyft is launching a car rental service. --The Verge

The FTC may block Facebook from merging Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. --The Wall Street Journal

From iPads to self-driving cars, here are the 10 greatest inventions of the last decade.  --Inc.
 
--Cameron Albert-Deitch
Reporter, Inc.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chinese coming to the USA legally or illegally are masters at this sort of stuff. They even come prepared with a pamphlet telling how to fake stuff. Select a "white" name. "Hello, my name is Brenda". "I have a degree [maybe a trade school certificate]." Etc. Have the little prepared and rehearsed speech that gets them the job. Knows what questions will be asked and what are the answers.

Anonymous said...

Fake job,fake kidnapping.
TYPICAL "NEGRO NIGHTLY NEWS SCRIPT--HOLT SHOWS "MISSING" BLACK KIDS IN FLORIDA(DID WHITEY DO IT?)AND MISSING TEXAS WHITE WOMAN'S,WHITE BOYFRIEND IS SUGGESTED AS "A FACTOR" IN HER DISAPPEARANCE.
(JAX4 NEWS)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just over 24 hours after Braxton Williams, 6, and his sister, 5-year-old Bri’ya Williams vanished from their front yard in a mobile home park off West Beaver Street, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said searchers “have found nothing.”


According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the children were reported missing by a family member about 1:30 p.m. Sunday after they were last seen about 11:30 a.m. while playing in the front yard of at the Paradise Village Mobile Home Park off Beaver just east of Chaffee Road. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued the Amber Alert about 5:15 p.m.

As the sun rose Monday, hundreds of search efforts that began Sunday afternoon ramped up. By noon, more than 100 patrol officers, 150 investigators, Urban Search and Rescue assets including Jacksonville Fire Rescue personnel. The JSO helicopter, dive team and K-9 officers and drones are also part of the search that includes a densely-wooded area nearby, abandoned mobile homes and retention ponds.


Williams said the Sheriff’s Office was utilizing state and regional partners and “every resource we can get” to find the children.

Despite all those resources and the parent’s cooperation with police, there is no indication of what happened to the children.

“Foul play could be a factor at this point. We just don’t know,” Williams said. “We’ve not no indication that anyone close to the children is involved.”
GRA:Holt likes showing black chillen gone--and usually insinuates whitey did it.No suggestion of that yet.The next story is another fave of his--white woman missing--white boyfriend is a suspect.
By Chris Harris(PEOPLE)
December 16, 2019 12:28 PM

The fiancé of a Texas woman who went missing last week along with their newborn daughter is turning to the public for help as the search for the 33-year-old mother and 2-week-old infant continues.

Shane Carey, who was the one who reported his fiancée, Heidi Broussard, and their baby, Margot Carey, missing on Thursday evening, spoke to KTBC and said he was feeling helpless.

“That’s the worst feeling in the world,” Carey told KTBC. “Not knowing what to do is the hardest part. I don’t know where she’s at, I don’t know if she is suffering. I just want to do more. It feels like we could do more.”

Between tears, Carey described the mother of his baby girl as “beautiful” and “loving,” and called the circumstances surrounding her disappearance “weird.”
GRA:If the black parents didn't kill those 2 kids,I'll be shocked.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

NEW WAY OF
KILLING SOMEONE IN THE GHETTO
(GRA:This area is thick black territory,the area blacks occupied(at an 80% number)for 30-50 years,before they started the march to my side of Grand Rapids.It's still 65% black,but 25% Mex.
Who dunnit--black or Mex--THAT is the question.)
Car crashes into GR home, kills pedestrian
GRAND RAPIDS
by: WOODTV.com staff

Posted: Dec 16, 2019 / 06:46 PM EST / Updated: Dec 16, 2019 / 07:11 PM EST

The scene where a car crashed into a home in Grand Rapids. (Dec. 16, 2019)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Authorities say a pedestrian was killed when a car crashed into a home in Grand Rapids Monday evening.

It happened around 5:30 p.m. on Kalamazoo Avenue, just south of Hall Street.

The Grand Rapids Police Department says the car was driving at a high speed when it hit the home.


The scene where a car crashed into a home in Grand Rapids. (Dec. 16, 2019)
The home sustained significant damage during the crash.

At this time, police say it is unclear if anyone was home during the crash.

Authorities have not released the name of those involved.


The scene where a car crashed into a home in Grand Rapids. (Dec. 16, 2019)
The crash is under investigation.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

Missing kids like that probably big time drug money owed and the famblee of the missing would not pay up.

Anonymous said...

DRUG THUG NEGROID CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH IN GR GHETTO

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man authorities allege was driving drunk when he crashed into two houses, killing a pedestrian, now faces more than a decade in prison.

Javan Thomas Beard was charged Tuesday with one count of operating while intoxicated causing death and one count of operating without a license in connection to the deadly crash Monday evening.


The scene where a car crashed into a home in Grand Rapids. (Dec. 16, 2019)
It happened around 5:30 p.m. on Kalamazoo Avenue and Temple Street near Hall Street on the city’s southeast side.

The Grand Rapids Police Department said the car was driving at a high rate of speed when it hit the victim and two houses.

Family identified the victim as Lashanda Howard, 47.

“It’s unreal,” her best friend, Marjory Banks, told News 8 Tuesday. “I still haven’t swallowed it yet.”

Banks said she was walking with Howard when the car came barreling off the road. Howard lived next to the crash site.

“I’m very upset to have her literally snatched from my hand. I grabbed her and tried to move her out the way,” Banks recalled, emotionally. “He murdered her. He was careless.”

News 8 found a history of domestic violence and drug charges for Beard(GRA:Yet,he's out). He faces 15 years in prison for Monday’s deadly crash.

Beard’s bond was set at $25,000 cash surety. Conditions of any release include a monitoring device to ensure he doesn’t drink, smoke marijuana or use any other drugs.(GRA:But they'd let him--UNBELIEVEABLE!He said in court today at the arraignment he "don't have no 25 thou.")
GRA:Meanwhile,the two missing blackies that Lesta Holt alerted the world about yesterday,were found in some nearby woods.I wonder when police brought the little tykes back,the parents said,"Oh sh*t!"
The Texas white woman is still missing and the boyfriend was interviewed:"Is there any reason Heidi Broussard would disappear?Did you have an argument?"
"No" and "no."
Meanwhile,Holt called Trump's Wednesday impeachment,"a symbol of disgrace."
Funny,that's what I think about "Negro Nightly News."
--GRA