Marketing Scoops: transition

Showing posts with label transition. Show all posts

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Remote Work Scam – Red Flags You Shouldn’t Ignore

The picture introduces information about job scams.

The promise of high pay for an entry-level position and the freedom to set your own working hours may sound enticing. However, it’s worth noting that 70% of remote job offers like this turn out to be scams. With the surge in remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, scammers have seized this trend by spreading fake jobs on platforms like LinkedIn, via email, and even through private messages. The anonymity and lack of face-to-face interaction in remote work environments make it easier for scammers to prey on individuals…….Continue reading…..

By: Editorial Team

Source: Custome Writing

Critics:

The most popular types of job scams include work-from-home scams, emailed job offers, fake jobs on social media, government and postal service job scams, job scams on verified job sites, job placement service scams, and fake employment/recruitment websites. Sham contracting is where a person working as an employee is told they are an independent contractor when they are not.

They may be treated like an independent contractor in some ways, for example they may be required to have an ABN, yet have no control over when and how they do their work or how much they get paid. If an interviewer has been giving you positive feedback at multiple stages of the interview process it’s a clear sign you will get the job after interviews are over. If you’re unsure about what they think of you, you could always ask them for feedback.

Scammers promise you a job but ask you to pay first. If someone asks you to pay to get a job, that’s a scam. Scammers guarantee you’ll make lots of money. If someone claims you’ll make lots of money fast working just a few hours a day, that’s probably a scam. Scammers tell you to pay a certain way. Scammers post fake job ads on social media or impersonate legitimate job sites and recruiters. They often send unsolicited text or WhatsApp messages about fake job opportunities.

These fake jobs usually promise good money for completing easy tasks in just a few hours each day. A job scam is a fraudulent offer for work that is intended to mislead people seeking legitimate employment. Often, the objective of scammers is to deceive job seekers into giving money, divulging personal information or providing free labor.If they’re legitimate and trustworthy, they should be able to provide contact names, email addresses and phone numbers for company verification.

If they can’t, don’t just ignore that – it’s a major red flag. In-person interviews typically last between 45 and 90 minutes, depending on the interviewer and if the applicant needs to perform tasks or give a presentation. In some cases, you may ask interviewees to undertake tasks to prove their ability and capability for the role. If a job seems too good to be true, it likely is.

For example, if a company is offering compensation well above the average pay for that position, it’s likely a scam. If you’re offered a position that you are significantly underqualified for, investigate the company further to determine if it’s a scam. Fake apps may display an icon that looks similar to the icon of a real app it is copying. This is often the case with game imitators that mimic popular games. Look closely and don’t be deceived by distorted, lower-quality versions of the real icons.

You can file an online report at the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov or call your FBI local office. The execution of a dummy job means that the job is running without job control and without its own action within Entire Operations. Dummy jobs can have an expected run time, which they will be waiting in the system. In 2013 an anthropology professor coined the concept of ‘bullshit jobs’.

Writing for the political magazine Strike, David Graeber proposed the theory that certain jobs are inherently useless or pointless. They waste time and resources, and produce nothing of value. If an app is asking for permissions that don’t make sense for its stated purpose, it could be a sign that it’s malicious. For example, an app that asks for access to contacts, phone status, or network connectivity without a clear reason should be avoided.

Scammers post fake job ads on social media or impersonate legitimate job sites and recruiters. They often send unsolicited text or WhatsApp messages about fake job opportunities. These fake jobs usually promise good money for completing easy tasks in just a few hours each day. A mannequin is a style and 3-D figure shaped form representing the human figure used especially for displaying clothes.

It is a life-size, articulated doll, especially used to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery. A mannequin also called a manikin, dummy, lay figure, or dress formSuspicious activities or behaviors may include, but are not limited to: Wandering around campus areas attempting to open multiple doors. Seeming nervous and looking over their shoulders. Entering restricted areas when not authorized or following immediately behind others into card-access areas while the door is open.

Communication Essentials for Career Development & Everyday Life

Building a Job-Winning Resume

Getting the Most out of Career Fairs [The Complete Guide]

Changing Career Paths after Graduation… or Later [Guide + Infographic]

Unexpected Career Tips from Celebrities [2025 Edition]

7 Affordable Hobbies You Can Monetize

How to Make a Resume: Secrets Your Employer Won’t Tell You

Identifying Fraudulent Employers and Job Scams: University of Michigan

Recognize & Avoid Job Scams: University of Colorado Boulder

17 Common Job Scams and How to Protect Yourself: Indeed

Avoid Online Job Scams with These 7 Simple Tips: PCMag

How to Avoid Work-From-Home Job Scams: FlexJobs

20 Common Job Search Scams and How to Protect Yourself: FlexJobs

5 Common Work-From-Home Scams (And How to Spot Them): Indeed

State of Remote Work 2023: Buffer

The Remote Work Scam That’s Blowing up in the Recruiting Industry: Technical.ly

9 Tips to Avoid Remote Work from Home Scams: Tech.co

Searching for a Remote Job? Watch out for Scammers: WJAR

Avoiding Job Scams: The University of Tampa

Unexpected Student Job Offers Are Often Scams: University at Buffalo

Job Scams Are on the Rise: 5 Red Flags to Watch for: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Job Scams: UC Davis

Don’t Fall for Fake Student Job Postings: Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Job Scams & How to Avoid Them: New York University

Fake Job Scams Are Becoming More Common—Here’s How to Protect Yourself: Forbes

Fake Job Postings Are Stealing Applicants’ Money and Identities: The Washington Post

Common Jobs Scams and How to Avoid Them: Money

Fake Job Listings Are a Growing Problem in the Labor Market: CBS News

Identifying Fraudulent Employers and Job Scams: University of Michigan

Recognize & Avoid Job Scams: University of Colorado Boulder

17 Common Job Scams and How to Protect Yourself: Indeed

Avoid Online Job Scams with These 7 Simple Tips: PCMag

How to Avoid Work-From-Home Job Scams: FlexJobs

20 Common Job Search Scams and How to Protect Yourself: FlexJobs

5 Common Work-From-Home Scams (And How to Spot Them): Indeed

State of Remote Work 2023: Buffer

The Remote Work Scam That’s Blowing up in the Recruiting Industry: Technical.ly

9 Tips to Avoid Remote Work from Home Scams: Tech.co

Searching for a Remote Job? Watch out for Scammers: WJAR

Avoiding Job Scams: The University of Tampa

Unexpected Student Job Offers Are Often Scams: University at Buffalo

Job Scams Are on the Rise: 5 Red Flags to Watch for: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Job Scams: UC Davis

Don’t Fall for Fake Student Job Postings: Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Job Scams & How to Avoid Them: New York University

Fake Job Scams Are Becoming More Common—Here’s How to Protect Yourself: Forbes

Fake Job Postings Are Stealing Applicants’ Money and Identities: The Washington Post

Common Jobs Scams and How to Avoid Them: Money

Fake Job Listings Are a Growing Problem in the Labor Market: CBS News

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Employers Say 64 Is Too Old To Get A Job

Shutterstock

When is someone too old to work and too old to hire? Employers and workers don’t agree, and that’s a problem. With so many people living well into their late 80s, 90s, even 100, many older workers need a job past 65, not just to stay engaged and healthy, but to save more for retirement. “It’s important to raise awareness that these disconnects exist,” says Catherine Collinson, ceo and president of Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, and author of the center’s latest annual retirement survey report, which delves into these issues….Continue reading…

By: Ashlea Ebeling

Source: Forbes

Critics:

Recent advances in data collection have vastly improved the ability to understand important relationships between retirement and factors such as health, wealth, employment characteristics and family dynamics, among others. The most prominent study for examining retirement behavior in the United States is the ongoing Health and Retirement Study (HRS), first fielded in 1992.

The HRS is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of adults in the U.S. ages 51+, conducted every two years, and contains a wealth of information on such topics as labor force participation (e.g., current employment, job history, retirement plans, industry/occupation, pensions, disability), health (e.g., health status and history, health and life insurance, cognition).

Financial variables (e.g., assets and income, housing, net worth, wills, consumption and savings), family characteristics (e.g., family structure, transfers, parent/child/grandchild/sibling information) and a host of other topics (e.g., expectations, expenses, internet use, risk taking, psychosocial, time use).

2002 and 2004 saw the introductions of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which includes respondents from 14 continental European countries . These surveys were closely modeled after the HRS in the sample frame, design and content. A number of other countries (e.g., Japan, South Korea) also now field HRS-like surveys, and others (e.g., China, India) are currently fielding pilot studies.

These data sets have expanded the ability of researchers to examine questions about retirement behavior by adding a cross-national perspective. Many factors affect people’s retirement decisions. Retirement funding education is a big factor that affects the success of an individual’s retirement experience. Social Security plays an important role because most individuals solely rely on Social Security as their only retirement option, when Social Security’s trust funds are expected to be depleted by 2034.

Knowledge affects an individual’s retirement decisions by simply finding more reliable retirement options such as Individual Retirement Accounts or Employer-Sponsored Plans. In countries around the world, people are much more likely to retire at the early and normal retirement ages of the public pension system (e.g., ages 62 and 65 in the U.S.).

This pattern cannot be explained by different financial incentives to retire at these ages since typically retirement benefits at these ages are approximately actuarially fair; that is, the present value of lifetime pension benefits (pension wealth) conditional on retiring at age a is approximately the same as pension wealth conditional on retiring one year later at age a+1.Nevertheless, a large literature has found that individuals respond significantly to financial incentives relating to retirement (e.g., to discontinuities stemming from the Social Security earnings test or the tax system).

Greater wealth tends to lead to earlier retirement since wealthier individuals can essentially “purchase” additional leisure. Generally, the effect of wealth on retirement is difficult to estimate empirically since observing greater wealth at older ages may be the result of increased saving over the working life in anticipation of earlier retirement. However, many economists have found creative ways to estimate wealth effects on retirement and typically find that they are small.

For example, one paper exploits the receipt of an inheritance to measure the effect of wealth shocks on retirement using data from the HRS. The authors find that receiving an inheritance increases the probability of retiring earlier than expected by 4.4 percentage points, or 12 percent relative to the baseline retirement rate, over an eight-year period.

A great deal of attention has surrounded how the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent Great Recession are affecting retirement decisions, with the conventional wisdom saying that fewer people will retire since their savings have been depleted; however recent research suggests that the opposite may happen.

Using data from the HRS, researchers examined trends in defined benefit (DB) vs. defined contribution (DC) pension plans and found that those nearing retirement had only limited exposure to the recent stock market decline and thus are not likely to substantially delay their retirement. At the same time, using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), another study estimates that mass layoffs are likely to lead to an increase in retirement almost 50% larger than the decrease brought about by the stock market crash, so that on net retirements are likely to increase in response to the crisis.

More information tells of how many who retire will continue to work, but not in the career they have had for the majority of their life. Job openings will increase in the next 5 years due to retirements of the baby boomer generation. The Over 50 population is actually the fastest growing labor groups in the US. A great deal of research has examined the effects of health status and health shocks on retirement. It is widely found that individuals in poor health generally retire earlier than those in better health.

This does not necessarily imply that poor health status leads people to retire earlier, since in surveys retirees may be more likely to exaggerate their poor health status to justify their earlier decision to retire. This justification bias, however, is likely to be small. In general, declining health over time, as well as the onset of new health conditions, have been found to be positively related to earlier retirement. Health conditions that can cause someone to retire include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, sleep apnea, joint diseases, and hyperlipidemia.

On the other hand, many retirees feel restless and suffer from depression as a result of their new situation. The newly retired are one of the most vulnerable social groups to become depressed most likely due to retirement coinciding with a deteriorating health status and increased care-giving responsibilities. Retirement coincides with deterioration of one’s health that correlates with increasing age and this likely plays a major role in increased rates of depression in retirees.

Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies have shown that healthy elderly and retired people are as happy or happier and have an equal quality of life as they age as compared to younger employed adults, therefore retirement in and of itself is not likely to contribute to development of depression. Research around what retirees would ideally like to have a fulfilling life after retiring, found the most important factors were “physical comfort, social integration, contribution, security, autonomy and enjoyment”.

Many people in the later years of their lives, due to failing health, require assistance, sometimes in extremely expensive treatments – in some countries – being provided in a nursing home. Those who need care, but are not in need of constant assistance, may choose to live in a retirement home.

Risk attached to High Court action a big factor in pension decisions at CIÉ, retired workers told The Irish Times 22:07 Thu, 12 Oct

Nigeria: Nigeria to Rehire Retired Healthcare Workers to Combat Brain Drain AllAfrica 08:53 Tue, 10 Oct

Brain Drain – Nigerian govt approves contract appointments for retired healthcare workers Premium Times, Nigeria 19:50 Mon, 09