So I figure this might be a good place for this since some who might be looking at jumping jobs will obviously use job sites to find their next job.
Long story short, I have a given disability that is statistically highly discriminated against, I've dealt with serious workplace harassment, and so on. So a few years back I've given up and stopped applying completely. When I was, I was applying for thousands of jobs per year. Because of this, I ended up using almost any job site I could.
More recently, lastpass had a breach and this could put any passwords stored with them during that time at risk. After jumping to a new system I started changing the passwords 1 at a time. (I honestly didn't realize how desperate I was before I gave up until I found I had accounts on several HUNDRED job sites. Some gone and some still here).
Anyways, because the amount the amount of time it takes I've been trying to simply change the password and then come back to take down the account. Some sites have no way to take down the account, different ways of doing it, and so on. Where as most use a similar way to change your password (sometimes even this is questionable).
Because this is a long many day process. I'm now waking up with at least a dozen text about an interview I have lined up, they liked my resume, and so on. Note I stopped applying to all jobs a while back, I haven't updated my resume in a long time, and I in no way am setting up interviews.
Then I remember something that happened when I was trying. There was scams where scammers would make it look like your getting a job, get all your personal info like SSN, in the info get personal info to make it seem like a friendly happy interview. Looking deeper it looks like the scammers have gotten far far worse.
Here is some tips that could help you
- Use Gmail. With Gmail you can do a username+whatever@gmail and it will be forwarded to your normal Gmail account. So like (bob+jobsite@gmail). When you see they sent to that, you know that site is what is given your data out.
- Google voice is free. What you can do is instead of giving them your personal number. Give them a Google voice number. This can forward to your real number. Google has a ok spam detection. But if they try to manipulate something like how hackers paid off phone companies to have the 2fa sms sent to them vs you. This isn't possible if you use Google voice as your public interface number. They have no way of knowing your real number and honestly there is no reason for them to.
- Obviously question everything and make sure the company is legit. Make sure you are even talking to the company you think you are. For example, I can post on most sites like I am Google or whatever. And unless if you do some digging you won't know if you're talking to a scammer. Try to get them to email and look at the header. Look up the people you talk to. If they have videos see if it sounds the same. Try to meet them in person if possible (note voice cloners can make the scammer sound like the person).