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19.5V

Folks,
I applied for a job that was advertised on the local Waterford rag, this job was advertised twice over the last two weeks and is up on the current online version of the newspaper.

I also applied twice last year for the same position that was again advertised in the local rag.

Here is where it gets interesting.

I rang the company today and was told that the position is on hold

I also rang them last year, twice and was told twice that the position was on hold

They didnt know who I was when I rang on any occasion as I didnt introduce myself and I called from different phones.

Very very strange...........................hmmmmm.......... unhelathy

Did anyone else apply?

robtri

seems fishy alright.....

but cant help as i have no idea what company or position you applied for

Yes Boss

Sounds like cheap advertising to me!

ziedth

Maybe cheap advertising is right!

Any harm in posting link to online page mods?

Deisekickboxing

could also be a crowd phising for emails and personel info be careful who one sends their cv's to
saw a similar add in the sun yesterday with just an email address to reply very suspicious...

19.5V

Deisekickboxing wrote: »

could also be a crowd phising for emails and personel info be careful who one sends their cv's to
saw a similar add in the sun yesterday with just an email address to reply very suspicious...

Something has me thinking its more of a "Power Trip" thingy
I have just found an email from my last years application confirming job was on hold......bizzare

Sully

Ill move this over to the Work & Jobs forum where the experienced posters can guide you further.

Hope you get yourself sorted with a job soon OP.

Topic Moved

AARRRGH

...or maybe, the job is on hold, and was the last time you rang them.

Stranger coincidences have happened!

AARRRGH

AARRRGH wrote: »

...or maybe, the job is on hold, and was the last time you rang them.

Stranger coincidences have happened!

Why would a job be 'on hold' and be actively advertised at the same time?

AARRRGH

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would a job be 'on hold' and be actively advertised at the same time?

I've seen it happen loads of times. Normally they want to keep receiving CVs should things change.

tatli_lokma

or they are harvesting CV's to see what staff is available out there. It has been known for companies to invent a job - similar to one that is already in place, but give it a different title. They advertise it at a lower salary - see if they get any decent CV's. Then they use this info to either lower current staff salary or get rid of current staff.
It happened to a friend not long ago - just purely by chance saw a job advertised which was in her field of experience, so sent off a CV (cos her boss is a knob!). She applied in her married name, but in her current company uses her maiden name (because she started there with that name so never changed it).
Got an email back asking what salary she was looking for - turns out the email was from her boss! :eek: She asked him if he was taking on new staff??? he said, kind of evasively, yeah maybe.

She got suspicious anyway, and was on her guard and kept looking for another job.
Two months later, her and 5 others were told their wages were being reduced as the company had done some 'research' and felt that in the current market they were being over paid! Basically they used the CV's they got to see what wage expectations people applying for the job had and used that info to pay current staff less! :eek: Of course they didn't take into account all the ad hoc stuff the staff were doing that was not mentioned in the job advert!

Thankfully for her she has since found a new - better paid - job with a nice boss.