I’ve just been “headhunted”, rather unusually, by (or rather on behalf of) a tech sales company…
They sell software mostly, but also the associated hardware. I’m not going to name the company, but it’s POS-related…
Leaving aside the weirdness of the way they “found” me, or how very odd the entire contact has been - if it turns out that this is legit, would you take it?
The base salary is the highest thing I’ve ever been propositioned, and then they claim up to 50% commission on top of that (I believe commission-only is illegal in Aus - hence the base salary). The recruitment was full of weird millennial shit like “Free breakfast!” and a bunch of emojis. It was all very… Cringe. It was also written with really poor grammar, considering this is a tech company, in Australia…
I dunno. I’m yet to ascertain how “legit” it all is, and it is very much too good to be true, but, apart from being parasites, what are your thoughts on that sort of work/company as a whole..?
It’s setting off a whole bunch of red flags, to me, but I’m also willing to… At least communicate with them further, without giving away anything too identifying, simply because I am looking for work.
I dunno. I don’t like this, and I’m trying to be as wary as possible, but the research I’ve done so far suggests that this is how companies like this do things, even if it is utterly alien to me…
Just wondering what people think, beyond “Run a thousand miles the other way”, lol…
You probably won't get a response but have you tried to send the company an email directly asking them if this recruiter works with them ?
Add in that you are worried that this person is using their company's name to potentially scam people as the email you received is incredibly unprofessional.
You might get an answer back as generally it's not a good idea to get your company's name associated with scams or unprofessional behavior so someone might take the time to disavow the recruiter.
As for whether I would take the offer....well it's not worth considering before I can verify it's legitimacy so I'd probably base my decision on what kind of answer I get from the email to the company itself.
Yeah, I spent several hours last night trying to look into that…
Essentially the company does not have a contact email…
I mentioned elsewhere, but to find any contact information that would be useful in this instance, I had to go to the parent company (which is NZ-based), and then continue searching around to be taken to another “Investors” site, which had a contact form but no email…
The Australian site doesn’t even have any job listings, and the careers page has all this weird legally dubious garbage about “If you send us an unsolicited CV, we will charge you a fee”…
It’s all very weird. Hence my increasing confusion… 😑
Oh, and they also have lots of links back to LinkedIn, but then no way to contact either the company or individuals on LinkedIn…
Honestly, if they even do exist, they have a very strange way of doing things, to say the least.
They very clearly do not want to be contacted, except by potential “clients” who they can sell the tech to, fml…