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Avoid
Employment Scams
Protect
yourself by avoiding employment scams. Like any advertising medium,
TorontoJobClassifieds.com cannot guarantee the authenticity of all jobs
posted on this website. Take care to protect yourself from scams.
We encourage our site visitors to report fraudulent job postings to the
editors
of our site.
When submitting
resumes, Service Canada recommends that you do not provide personal or
sensitive information including:
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Your Social
Insurance Number
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Your Age or
Date of Birth
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Your Marital
Status
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Your Drivers'
Licence Number
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Your Health
Card Number
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Banking or
Financial Information Including:
Any job posting
that requests that this information be submitted either in the resume,
application, cover letter or email as part of the job application process
should be avoided. Obviously some of this information would need to be
shared when the hiring process begins, contact Service Canada for more
information.
Consumer
Reports: WebWatch has published an informative article on employment scams
which is well worth reading:
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/fraud-investigation-job-sites.cfm
If you are
uncertain about an opportunity, a simple internet search using the company
name or key words and phrases in the advertisement will often yield valuable
information. The best rule of thumb, as always, is if it seems
to-good-to-be-true, it likely is and should be avoided.
TorontoJobClassifieds.com views opportunities that require an up-front
investment on the job seeker's part to be business opportunities rather than
employment opportunities. We do our best to screen these types of
advertisements out of our free ad pages, except for the "Work at Home"
classification page. We cannot guarantee the authenticity of
business opportunities advertised on TorontoJobClassifieds.com. If you
discover such a business opportunity being advertised in the free
classifieds pages, other than "Work at Home" or discover that an opportunity
is in any way fraudulent, please
contact us so that we
may rectify the situation.
If you are
contacted to meet an employer for an interview, ensure that it is at a
legitimate place of business, not a private residence or vehicle.
Legitimate job interviews should occur in a public place during normal
business hours. If you are at all nervous or unsure about an interview
situation reschedule the interview until you can investigate the opportunity
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