Even though I am still in school, one of my favourite things is looking at job advertisements for digital marketing positions. These days, I came upon such an advertisement:

You are not given any information on the company’s products or services when you read the advertisement. Moreover, they don’t inform you what kind of experience or abilities are required for the post. They will merely tell you that previous experience is not necessary but that they will provide comprehensive training. Similar roles appear not exclusively in New Zealand but all over the world.

It seems to be a fantastic chance for the majority of new graduates who do not yet have sufficient professional experience or those who desire to transition their careers into digital marketing.

I am obligated to advise you that if you come across a position advertisement that looks like this one, you need to investigate the company online and thoroughly comprehend what it is that they are doing. To tell you the truth, most businesses of that kind are not typically considered “genuine” businesses. I am not implying that they do not have physical offices. They could have done so. In other words, they are not offering ‘real’ goods or services on the market; instead, they are operating as some type of Multi-Level Marketing firm (MLM).

In addition, some fraudulent businesses often employ Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) strategies as the basis for their Pyramid schemes and other misleading business structures. Some pyramid schemes have only ever offered a virtual form of the items they purport to sell since the schemes themselves don’t sell anything. Participants in the programme work toward the goal of earning money only from newly recruited members by ‘hiring’ new people to join the organisation. Actually, those employees will not receive salaries but only that so-called commissions.

If you contact them, you have the 99% ability to be “employed” without any difficulties, even though they may seem to have some “interviews.” After then, it is possible that you may be requested to pay a ‘training’ fee or a ‘product’ investment charge, etc. In point of fact, it is the income of those individuals referred to as “old workers” or your ‘direct manager’. The only thing left for you to do is sell those so-call lessons, goods, or services online or by other methods. When you bring on new people as ’employees,’ you open yourself up to the possibility of financial benefit from those new people.

I don’t see why recruitment websites would promote such scam-like ‘hiring’, which may harm their reputation if anything unfavourable or damaging happens. Despite this, it rarely occurs, and the only people who end up being hurt are those applicants without careful consideration.

So, If you come across such adverts for jobs as a digital marketer, be on your guard and do extensive research before submitting your resume!