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Anti-crisis scams in the labor market. How to avoid becoming a victim of scammers when looking for work?
The financial crisis instantly fell in love with scammers of all stripes, “anti-crisis” scams are pouring onto the heads of Russians with solid offers, leaflets, advertisements, advertising or just spam mailing. Feelings were mutual, to become deceived in any undertaking of various fields of activity in our time is simple. Desperate for a job, people begin to cling to almost any chance, and every job posting attracts the attention of thousands of Russians.

However, the fraudsters' feelings for financial instability in the country are growing stronger, they are coming up with more and more new ways to prove their “love”. To avoid becoming a victim of such a relationship, learn about modern methods of fraud in the labor market.
Love in the distance
If you lose your job, then in search of a new one you can lose even more. For example, in a proposal for remote work, you often cease to be a candidate for its receipt immediately after you transfer the entry fee, the amount of which ranges from 10 to several thousand rubles. The same scheme works as it did many years ago: in an announcement or letter you are promised a significant improvement in your financial situation as a result of minimal effort on your part. Students, retirees and those who are not comfortable with a standardized working day are happy to accept job offers at home. You can collect pens or pack gifts, ring people or send mail, in general, choose what is more to your liking.
Potential employers take money from you for the delivery of parts or stamps in order to “protect themselves from fraud”, ask you to pay entry fees, promise a lot of bonuses, but in the end: they are in the black, you are in a decent minus. You can even collect the first set of pens sent to you, although it is unlikely that you will receive it at all, or send thousands of messages, no one will pay you for this, and the money spent will not be returned. Experts suggest that you do not believe job offers, if you need to make your own money in order to become an employee. Here is such anti-crisis love.
Feelings need to be paid
Now they are actively offering work, at the start of which you need to learn a little. In order to start, you need to buy a study guide. When you send money, do not forget to say goodbye to them and to work.
Another often suggested option is to take part in online surveys, for each of which you will be paid money. The catch is this: to get a list of "working links", you need to buy it. One of the firms generally proposed "to become a representative of a prestigious and highly paid profession - a freelancer." Apparently, the company decided that most of the Russians are firmly convinced that the freelancer is a profession, not a format of work.
Clubomania
Another option for scammers to express their warm feelings for the unstable financial situation in the country is business clubs. Most of them, as a rule, are supported by the same organizers. “Clubs” impress with their ostentatious elitism and offer fabulous earnings. The entrance fee to such a club is several thousand dollars, and then you will search for new club members. And from their contributions to receive a commission. In the past, such clubs raised about $ 60 million from those who wanted to earn Russians.
"Love" SMS
The employment agency you contacted may ask you to pay in advance for your services or money for a “secret list of elite vacancies”. Also, after placing your advertisement, you may receive a message stating that a job has been found for you, but due to the extraordinary employment of the employer and overload of communication, it is impossible to reach the office. You will be asked to send an SMS to a specific number, only after receiving a “delivery report” you will know that the amount of the message is more than the salary promised to you.
Fictitious marriage
A recruitment agency may also “like” get you a job in a decent company without interviews, but it will ask you to pay for a medical examination, uniform, some kind of license, and so on. Only after payment "unexpectedly" it turns out that this vacancy is already taken.
You receive a letter from a completely unknown employer with the most solid status, which guarantees you immediate employment and asks you to send a copy of your passport for processing documents. “New job” will result in a loan for you, which scammers will issue on your passport.
Test of feelings
Quite often, enterprising employers save on staff remuneration. People are hired only for a trial period. For him, either they do not pay at all, or the minimum amount. But after a month or a maximum of three promise a huge amount of bonuses, a high salary, social package and many other benefits. Exhausted by the threat of unemployment, Russians happily agree to “one free month”, and then they are dismissed as “not having passed the probationary period”.
Who to trust?
I want to work, and not be deceived in the process of finding a decent job. Now firms often create commercials in which they appear to be reputable companies, come up with a successful image of the often non-existent owner and actively promote it. Who to trust when searching for a job?
1. If the company is always ready to provide you with accurate and official information about yourself, the product, the earnings system and sales methods, the risk of fraud is minimal.
2. When hiring a firm, the methods of recruitment questionable from the point of view of law or ethics are not used, such as the impact on the psyche at crowded meetings, the story of the elitism of the firm.
3. The future "beautiful life", or rather the promised salaries, in the company can be supported by documentary facts. If everything is limited to an impressive story at a presentation or interview, fruitful cooperation with such an employer will not work for you.
Cheating on the job market has been a whole industry before. People who have lost their jobs are ready to seize on every opportunity. And here swindlers come to their "help". In conditions of unemployment, people are ready to take much greater risks. And even those who once read in detail each paragraph of the employment contract are now ready to turn a blind eye to much. The fraudsters are taking advantage of this, they have already compiled a huge number of special puzzlers on the topic of the crisis.
So on the job sites with might and main alluring ads go: “Have you been left without work? Have you been cut or delayed? Or just want something more? Then this work is for you! The crisis is the time to act! The crisis is the time for the smart! ” Well, someone, and scammers themselves in the conditions of the financial crisis are unlikely to be without work.
Anastasia Andreeva
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Scams with employment

Employment scams
Work at home.
The most common methods of cheating and fraud
Mailing lists
In almost every newspaper of free announcements, and in other publications, you can find ads of this kind: "I give work at home, my salary is up to $ * 00 per week, you have an application and an envelope with a return address." In this case, the address of the "employer", as a rule, is PO Box #.
Suppose you sent a request. After a while, a prospectus form will come with a text such as: “The Kopyrog LLC Labor and Employment Service offers a list of jobs that you can earn up to 2 thousand rubles a month (figures vary). For this you need to send 20 rubles to the next /I am..."
If you still dare to send a transfer, then two options are likely:
1. You can immediately forget about your money, as you will not receive an answer.
2. By mail, get a form with a home work postal program.
It consists in the following: give an announcement similar to what you received yourself, and set a reasonable price. After a while, feedback applications will begin to arrive, the number of which can reach 600-900 letters per month. Then you receive mail orders, and in return send a description of the cheating procedure.
The actions of the second option are ideally suited to the signs of a crime under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which is called “Fraud” and defines responsibility for the theft of another's property by fraud or breach of trust. Starting with significant fines, up to 6 years in prison. However, the police, as a rule, are not engaged in such "postal" scammers - a trifle.

Cheating with home delivery
Prepared by Valery VESELOV
"Work at home, five types. Partial and full employment is possible. Processing and mailing of correspondence. Earnings up to $ 400 per month."
"10 types of homework ... Mailing and business correspondence. Earnings up to $ 150 per week. We will answer everyone."
"We need people to process correspondence at home. Distribution of convenience foods and cards. Employment 2-4 hours a day, salary from 1000 dollars."
I see ten such announcements in each more or less prestigious print publication. From the promised amounts of earnings, just the heart beats. Realizing deep down that there was some kind of trick behind these promises, I consciously decided to "fall for the bait", simply out of "children's curiosity," as the famous literary hero put it. However, there was a thought: "What if something worthwhile?". After all, it is written in many ads: "Your income depends on your personal performance and initiative."
The responses from the two firms where I sent the requests came surprisingly quickly. Both companies, according to their managers, are engaged in "social programs that help people find highly paid work at home, which does not require any special knowledge or initial capital and takes a minimum of time." However, the informants gently warned: "Just because no money is given to anyone. Your wealth is your desire and hard work." Nevertheless, a stable income of up to 7-8 thousand dollars a year was guaranteed to me. To obtain more specific information, it was proposed to pay a one-time fee by postal order. This contribution, it was said, is necessary for the preparation and printing of documents for my chosen type of work, as well as a means of protection "from those who are not serious about our work." To dispel recent doubts, the information contained a promising message: "All the proposed works are legally legal. We have nothing to do with the activities of organizations and individuals abusing people's trust for mercenary purposes and for carrying out any fraudulent operations."
I guess I needed to stop here. If they require payment for admission to work, in addition, by postal transfer to a post office box - this is already a clear kiddie, but ... What is it all about?
I transferred the "money" the required money. Not that big, by the way. Ten days later I received the "Postal Work Program." It said that the first step towards my financial independence was made by me, that this program is just salvation from lack of money in the era of total unemployment, and now everything depends only on my hard work.
The first recommendation contained the following: "For the most successful work and the maximum return on it, it is necessary to register and obtain basic information on the remaining types of work." In a word, it was proposed to pay again for stories about other works and again to pay for entering my identity into the data bank. A separate fee was required for notification of new types of highly profitable work. The case was posed cunningly: having paid all these amounts, a sane person will not be able to stop halfway, but will pay and pay, still hoping for a wonderful result.
The "Postal Work Program" itself was obviously compiled by a rather clever person, but one thought came across all the correctly and beautifully written phrases: now I myself have to "catch" gullible simpletons, placing ads in newspapers and sticking them on posts, sending them out information sheets on behalf of the company, but with their data. The "employers" even offered help (not free, of course) in creating "the original form of the European level and laser quality for further high-quality photocopying."
Recommendations on how to look for fools are generally unique. It makes sense to bring them completely. I can only say that all the emphasis here is on advertising: "... if you have at least a small financial potential, we recommend that you place ads in paid advertising publications ... Paid advertising is published within five days, while free - within a month. The wider the network of your advertising, the more feedback you will collect ... It’s important to know how to make your ad attractive. Use the words: “You can make decent money!”, “Incredibly high income!”, “$ 1,000 in week! ". But be correct. Remember that your future client must trust you. Set a moderate price - a chance to get more orders. After a while, you will receive responses. The average number of applications reaches 600-800 letters per month. You put your informative sheet in the received signed client’s envelope. Then you will receive answers-requests with receipts of mail orders and a signed envelope. You put in the custom instruction and from send it to the client. From the point of view of the law, you are a seller of information, and this is not punishable. ”And another note:“ On our part, all conditions are met. You wanted to have independent income-generating work at home and received the appropriate instructions ... Good luck! "
I remember six years ago there was such a thing in fashion. Someone made an ad in the newspaper: “I’ll teach you how to earn up to 100 million a month. From you, an envelope with a return address and a receipt for a transfer ...”, then indicated the account number and a small amount - 200-300 thousand (then we still all were "millionaires"). Having pecked at this bait, in a week you received the answer: "Do you want to make good money? Give the newspaper a similar announcement." You will not say anything. The intellectual level of scammers is growing.
Ball business
In a number of regions of Russia, there was a demand for homeworkers who want to join the work for the benefit of the medical industry. Day and night, many people from the Urals to Moscow piled on meaningless work.
Unbearable, this work was only for the blind. All that was needed was to separate the black balls from the white ones from the bag with plastic granules. Of the whites, they later promised to stamp disposable syringes. For each portion taken (approximately 250 g), a payment of 25 rubles was offered under the contract.
The red price of these granules is 80-100 rubles. per ton, but homeworkers were told that the raw materials were very valuable. The agreement had a separate clause on a pledge of 140 rubles. for every first bag of granules. Fraudsters offered to make a deposit for several bags at once. And for greater persuasiveness, at the moment of drawing up the contract, dummies appeared to whom the money “for work” was publicly meekly unfastened. The bait was swallowed, especially since the work was not dusty - no more difficult than sorting out millet or buckwheat. Bail amounts are sometimes off the scale for $ 200 per client. In the Volga region, plastic swindlers managed to grab decent money before they began to look for them. In the capital, the police managed to cover this shop before the full promotion of the plastic boom.
True, the owners of the one-day company managed to get away in time. The militiamen got only bags with mixed granules and a girl-secretary who found this job on an advertisement in the newspaper.
Gift wrapping.
Some company promises to pay from 3 to 6 thousand rubles for packing holiday gifts or gluing stamps on an envelope. An ideal job for pensioners, students and all those for whom a normalized working day is not very convenient. You sit at home in the warmth, you distribute your working time yourself, and you also get money. What could be better? This is suitable for many people, so homework advertisements are usually in demand. We will explain everything in detail to you at the meeting, ”the manager answers by phone. - Write down the address, we are waiting for you.
Having crossed the threshold of the company, the employee understands that he will have to fight for the opportunity to earn money “warmly”: there are usually many competitors who want to take work home. In the end, the rules explain to you. In words, the company takes care of each of its employees, so the company delivers the contents of gifts and packaging directly by car to the house. Rejoiced that he would not have to carry heavy bags, the applicant is ready to pay two hundred rubles for delivery. Yes, this service turns out to be paid: "You understand - gasoline is not cheap today, car amortization is also worth the money ..." "Okay, - you think, the amount, it seems, is small, but you won’t have to bother."
Unfortunately, that is not all.
“You also need to make a deposit. You know how it happens: a person will promise from three boxes, but he will not do anything. And we have obligations to partners, we must give them packed gifts on time. Do the work - get your money back. " If you do not stop after such a phrase, you will have to pay another 500-600 rubles. The contract looks quite solid, with the seal and company details, and you decide.
On this day, no one arrives with the goods.
“Do not worry,” the staff, whom you, of course, call, reassure, “the driver simply did not have time for all the addresses. Wait, today he will deliver everything to you. But this day is wasted. As a result, there is no work, and when asked about the return receipt of the pledge, it generally turns out that the contract does not provide for a refund. Moreover, nowhere in the document does it say that you should be provided with accessories for gift wrapping.
Internet: typing, sorting images and the like
The deception associated with this has become widespread. As a rule, they tell you on any site or from soap spam: we are a serious company, we don’t have our own site ... And we have soap on a free hosting, but we offer you a job. You will receive a task by e-mail: scanned text that must be typed on a computer. At the same time, a good payment is offered.
At first glance, the work is real. But after you are interested, they write to you that you need to pay a registration fee - 100 rubles. This money is a guarantee of your seriousness, payment of “materials”, a guarantee for forfeit, if you do not complete the task on time and “substitute” the company.
After receiving the money, they will forget about you forever ... You will not arrange a lawsuit and file an application with the police for 100 rubles? This is what fraudsters, confident in their impunity, count on. The same deception often happens with translation work ...
However, before sending money, ask your "employer" for at least a cell phone number. You won’t get an answer. Those who really need typesetters do not require prepayment. You type the text - you receive money for it. And that’s all!
Other types of work, such as sorting images, often end up with money from you.
LLC "Hoofs Media International", allegedly located at the address: Uryupinsk, st. Lokhov, house 37, office 16, - reports that he is engaged in the production of CD \ DVD-disks with clipart on specific topics, for example: the animal world, professions, medicine and more.
The company "needs a large number of working hands." Explains in detail how to scatter images from a shared folder on different, thematic. Pictures promise to send on disks, enclose cost estimates, including postal. It will turn out a small amount of 77 rubles, which they will ask to send to Yandex.Money. They will assure that in the future, if you do the work on time, you won’t need to do this, because you will be added to the special list of “reliable partners” and the amount of the first deposit will, of course, be returned. At first glance, everything is solid. The deposit is small. The company address is given. It is entirely possible that Hoof Media is indeed located at this address ... which does not even have a clue that its name is used in blackmail. And most likely, at this address there is no company at all. And there’s simply no house 37 on this street! But many "peck", and ... that's it. After payment, they stop responding to letters. You won’t get any work, no disks!
If you still want to believe some company, you can ask for the TIN and contact phone number. There is no reason for a real company to hide this data ... And scammers will ignore your request.
Unfortunately, 99 percent of job postings on the Internet are fraud or an attempt to engage you in various MMM projects and pyramids ...
Work on the ranking of sites.
They do not require money from the applicant, but they use it as a cheap labor force, offering to participate in the work of popularizing the site: more views - higher its rating. Figures of the "black PR" also use this scheme, thus winding up the site counters. Delov - sit and click on the link. For viewing one link they offer 0.002 cu That is, to earn 2 y. e., you need to view 1000 (!) Links and spend a lot of time. As a rule, it takes 30 seconds to look at one (it’s not just the page loading time that counts, but the timer that snaps out the viewing time), filling out a questionnaire for your registration on the site takes 2-3 minutes (they pay a little more for that). But in fact, one such site "about nothing" per day needs to provide no more than 15-20 views from one user. And real income is about 2-3 cents per day. But the collection of email addresses for spam mailings is in full swing!
Invitations to foreign families.
These are announcements that the American family invites people (often couples) to work as tutors, carers, gardeners. The applicant is deducted from the Americans, and they report that of the hundreds of applicants they chose him. They send a list of documents required to travel to the United States, and accidentally report that to open a visa you need to have a plastic card and put 300 y on it. e. Allegedly, in order to expedite visa processing, they suggest sending them electronic copies of documents, including cards from both sides. After they withdraw money from her and disappear.
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Fraudulent schemes in job search and how to protect yourself from them?
Previously, people in search of work turned mainly to friends and acquaintances, asking them to find a place for them. Today, residents of large cities, spoiled by the achievements of civilization, are looking for new places via the Internet. And the sites on which vacancies and resumes are placed are extremely popular during the crisis. And, unfortunately, not only among honest job seekers and employers, but also among ... scammers. The number of people who want to fool their neighbor through the World Wide Web has increased several times. What schemes are used by scammers and how to protect themselves from them?

Glue the envelopes ...
Often people, having lost their jobs, prefer not to go to employment centers, but solve their problems on their own. Therefore, employees of job search sites today have a more complete, clear and impartial picture of what is happening on the labor market in big cities. One of the largest Ukrainian employment resources, Job.ukr.net, receives 1,000 to 1,500 new job postings daily. It is not surprising that the administrators of this site pay special attention to the study of fraudulent schemes that are used to get money out of applicants. But most importantly, they know how to protect themselves from unfair offers. Indeed, according to their observations, today in cities with a population of over one million people, approximately one in ten vacancy announcements is fraudulent.

“There were such announcements before the crisis, but during it not only their flow increased, but also the number of schemes themselves,” says Vera Tkachenko, editor-in-chief of the Job.ukr.net website. “The easiest is working at home.” Indeed, many job sites have such a section. And there sometimes, among quite normal announcements, offering, for example, the work of translators or literary editors, there are also very entertaining ones: "part-time work, stable earnings from $ 1000 per day." I personally do not hope that someone is ready to make me happy for free. But there are people who believe in miracles. What do they run into in the end?

“They offer to do it at home, for example, assembling pens, making envelopes, compiling databases or processing images,” my interlocutor continues. - Then there are two options for the development of events: either scammers offer additional information about the vacancy, but for this you need to send an SMS worth 5-10 UAH. Or you are required to start with money for materials. They cost not so much - about 70-150 UAH. Man transfers money. Next - how lucky. The “employer” may simply disappear, or it may at first “make you happy” with spare parts for pens. But soon it turns out that the finished product is not needed by the customer.

Another scheme - you are invited to do email processing. But first you have to send $ 17-18 for registering an "electronic wallet." Naturally, we are not talking about processing - the money will simply be appropriated.

Promotion of sites for ... $ 2 per month!
Work at home is a tempting offer for some people who are not very eager to work. But you have to live! Here you have, let us suppose, a dream - how to arrange it so that you can climb the Internet all day long without taking the fifth point from the chair. Yes please! All online resources are interested in high traffic. This is their bread: the more “clicks” and registered users, the more willing advertisers pay for a place on the site. Therefore, some of them are willing to pay for someone to provide this attendance. And scammers were not slow to take advantage of this.

“Another scheme of“ earnings ”is clicks and Internet surfing,” Vera Tkachenko explains. - One link costs 1/2000 dollars. To earn $ 2, you need to view a thousand links. But, as a rule, one site provides the ability to "click" on it no more than 30-40 times. One of the moderators of Job.ukr.net estimated that it takes about 30 seconds to look at one site. Once he deliberately spent the whole day to determine how much he could physically earn.

It turned out to be 2-3 cents. And for $ 2 you need to work more than a month! In fact, the applicant is used as free labor. And those who offer similar vacancies sell their services to website owners several times more expensive. But that is not all. After a while, a person discovers that after such free work "for uncle" his address falls into the database for spam mailing. And in addition to all the troubles, there is a shaft of electronic garbage in the mail.

"On formidable rocks, crushing with the roar of a wave ..."
It seems that this is how the song of the Varangian guest from the opera Sadko begins. Humming this melody with enthusiasm, many simple souls are caught on offers to go to Norway to work on the local oil developments. The salaries of Norwegian oil workers are fabulous, the working conditions are wonderful. And the Ukrainian intermediary company promises to agree on a place and help to execute documents in a short time and for quite reasonable money ...

A person who has a computer at home is offered to go to the right sites for money. People agree, but then it turns out that they have to do this almost for free.

“Those who buy such offers do not know that the Norwegians themselves are standing in line to get work at the oil rig,” says the editor-in-chief of the Job.ukr.net website. - Our restless moderator contacted his Norwegian colleague, who, in turn, called the local oil companies. And there they were very surprised to learn that in Ukraine they were looking for oil workers in Norway.

Citizens of this country have the right to work on the tower for about a year, and then have to wait three years to get this job again - it is so prestigious. Secondly, in Norway they take care of their own unemployed. And in order to invite a foreigner to work, you need to print job advertisements in local newspapers for several months. And if no one responded, you can try to look for a foreign specialist. But for this you will have to prepare a lot of documents. Ukrainians, however, do not know this. And they give the money into the hands of rogue "intermediaries" so that they arrange them for a bread spot in a distant northern country.

$ 300 to America
Another “country of great opportunities”, where our compatriots dream of getting, is the USA. Dating sites often come across ads that offer Ukrainians a job as a servant in American families. The difficulty lies in the fact that distinguishing a decent offer from a fraudulent one in this case is not easy. However, if the relationship develops according to the scheme described by our interlocutor, then most likely you are scammed by a hook.

“Suppose a job seeker reads an announcement that staff, such as a gardener and housekeeper, preferably a married couple, are looking for an American family,” she explains. - He sends the application, and he receives a message that the Americans received, say, fifty resumes, but chose yours. Hooray! Correspondence begins: you are sent a list of documents that need to be drawn up. And by the way, they report that you need to register a plastic card - in order to pay the cost of a visa. But the card must be one through which you can make payments on the Internet.

Naive Ukrainians put $ 300 there (this is exactly the amount required for paperwork). Then they are asked to send copies of documents, including cards. Then the scammers, having all the data, withdraw money from her and disappear. Again, our curious moderator-adventurer decided to check out this scheme! He put in $ 300 and watched the money slowly melt away. He could not stand it and wrote: “Why are you doing this?” And the American friends were gone. ”

The bot program is not for notepad
Is it possible to somehow filter fraudulent offers of fictitious employers? Fortunately, yes. There are three main ways to do this on Job.ukr.net.

“Firstly, we have a whole staff of moderators who read each ad,” continues Vera Tkachenko. - Our advantage is that we are part of the large Ukrnet company and we can afford it. I know that at some job sites during the crisis the staff was reduced, leaving one moderator each, and then not for a full day. The flow of vacancies is large, physically one person will not be able to process them. Therefore, most sites turn a blind eye to fraudulent ads. And our moderators not only read them carefully, but from time to time they conduct their own experiments with suspicious ads - like the ones I already told you about. ”

There is a second way to fight. How does the circuit work? Suppose a scammer places a vacancy. The applicant finds it on the site. Previously, CVs were sent via email. And this was a great risk that the address of the applicant who responded to the vacancy will fall into the spam mailing list or the bots will start sending him letters like “send a little money and get more detailed information about the vacancy”. Now each user, both the employer and the applicant, can create their own personal section on the website - a notebook (something like a page, for example, on Odnoklassniki). And the applicant now sends the resume not to the employer’s e-mail, but to a notebook. There the bots will no longer get the contact details of the applicant. In principle, you can get such parasitic programs in a notebook, but it's too expensive for scammers - the game is not worth the candle.

Finally, the third method of protection. “Users complain about this or that vacancy. - says Vera Tkachenko. - And according to complaints, a kind of black list is created. Soon, a notebook will also appear in notebooks - "complain about the vacancy." If the applicant has negative experience with the company or knows that she is cheating, she can report it, and moderators will definitely pay attention to it. Suppose 10 people complained about a company - and we will no longer work with it. ”

In general, as life convinces, when looking for work, you should always follow the wise principle of “Trust, but verify!”

List of "happy professions"
The salaries of programmers are increasing, and there are up to 14 vacancies per one seller - “networker”.

The editor-in-chief of the job site also said that the situation on the labor market in the spring and summer of this year is very different from previous years. How was it before? From the end of December to January - a lull. Already in February there was some recovery, and in March the number of ads increased by 10-15%. Rapid growth was observed from mid-April and ended in the first half of June: 50–80% more new vacancies appeared. But that was before the crisis. This year March turned out to be “peak”: the number of vacancies doubled in comparison with February!

The fact is, my interlocutor believes that in many companies they fired people in a rush, and then they realized that there was nobody to work, and they began to actively recruit staff. In addition, forecasts about the aggravation of the crisis and state default did not materialize, and many companies ventured to increase investment in their development or, at least, not to make so hard austerity. Only now, alas, they are already offering less money. But not everyone. For example, programmers' salaries practically did not decrease. In addition, in the spring a lot of offers from foreign IT companies appeared on the market.

“We make a rating of the most popular specialties, tracking the ratio of the number of vacancies and resumes,” she explains. - Simply put, how many people claim a place in a particular profession. Even during a crisis, there are specialties where the number of resumes is less than vacancies. For example, sellers in the field of network marketing. According to the first half of June, one such specialist has about 14 job offers. We really need programmers, paramedics in private clinics, they call for insurance agents and sales managers. With some revival in the real estate market, realtors again needed. "
Source: https://loxnet.ru/articles/117.html