Currently, we are in the peak season of job hunting and recruitment. Some criminals use the names of central state-owned enterprises to publish false recruitment information to attract people. Under the guise of "internal recommendation" and "direct signing guarantee", they even forge recruitment materials to induce job seekers to pay high fees, seriously infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of job seekers and disrupting the order of the human resources market. To this end, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council have issued risk warnings to remind job seekers, especially college graduates, to increase their awareness of risk prevention and beware of being deceived.
Typical routine
The first step is to fabricate false recruitment information in the name of a central state-owned enterprise to attract traffic. Through social networking, live broadcasts, short video platforms or online communities, online forums, communication communities, etc., criminals pretend to be experts and authorities with gimmicks such as "Central State-owned Enterprise Employment", "Central State-owned Enterprise Guidance", "Central State-owned Enterprise Planning" and other gimmicks. They publish false or exaggerated information such as "China XX Group is urgently recruiting tens of thousands of people", "Regardless of majors, you can enter with basic registration", "Annual salary of XX million, with formal establishment", etc., and use "talking skills" to attract job seekers to take the initiative to consult.
The second step is to fabricate "internal recommendation channels" to gain trust. Pretending to have internal connections in corporate human resources, implying that they have "a small number of internal quotas" and "resources such as internal referrals and internships to connect with", falsely claiming that "ordinary online resumes cannot pass the screening, and only paid internal referrals can go directly to the interviewer", exaggerating the tightness of job quotas, the sense of urgency of missing out, and selling job hunting anxiety. Some also fabricate chat records, success stories, and even forge false labor contracts and employment agreements to make job seekers mistakenly believe that they have a "background" and "relationships" and relax their vigilance.
The third step is to set up a clever name to collect fees and commit fraud. The ultimate goal of criminals is to defraud money, and they will charge fees in various names such as "internal referral service fee", "interview management fee", "entry deposit", and "deposit". After receiving the payment, they often delay and prevaricate, or even lose contact directly, citing "policy changes", "leadership adjustments" and other reasons.
Precautionary tips
The first is to choose formal channels to apply for a job. Job seekers seeking employment through the Internet or offline should choose the official websites of central state-owned enterprises, public employment service agencies, campus recruitment activities organized through formal channels, or formal employment agencies with legal qualifications. For employment agency qualifications, job seekers can check the information of human resources service agencies through the National Human Resources and Social Security Government Service Platform, electronic social security cards, mobile 12333 App and other channels, and give priority to service agencies or recruitment platforms with high integrity and standardized operations.
The second is to check the compliance of information beforehand. For information released by online platforms, self-media public accounts, etc., job seekers should pay attention to verify the account qualifications, verify the authenticity of job information through multiple methods, such as comparing with official websites, and protect their legitimate rights and interests from infringement. Job seekers can find authoritative central state-owned enterprise recruitment information through recruitment websites established by human resources, education, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and other departments such as "Employment Online", "National College Student Employment Service Platform", "State-owned Central Enterprise Recruitment Platform", "China Public Recruitment Network" and other recruitment websites.
The third is to be wary of job search charges. Anyone who requires payment of high fees to arrange employment or internship in the name of "paid internal referral" or "guaranteed internship and certification" should be decisively rejected. Regular central state-owned enterprise recruitment will not charge registration fees, handling fees, information fees, introduction fees, service fees, etc.
The fourth is to retain evidence to safeguard rights in accordance with the law. Job seekers should pay attention to retaining relevant chat records, agreement texts, transfer vouchers, etc., to retain evidence for possible disputes. If you encounter paid referral fraud, report the case to the public security agency as soon as possible; at the same time, you can report illegal human resources service activities to the labor inspection agency of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and report false online recruitment information to the Central Cyberspace Administration of China’s Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center 12377 to safeguard your legitimate employment rights.
