The new wave of self -proclaimed “mentors” is taken over by LinkedIn – promising job seekers gold opportunities at Faang (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google), branding to deceive job seekers and offer false mentor programs that eventually use their despair. As described in detail on the Reddit viral contribution, these so -called mentors often publish photographs of themselves “Faang goods or posing in corporate offices”, accompanied by unclear motivational reports. Their final goal, as critics say, is not to help but benefit.
After watching several of these influencers, a clear formula appeared. Their book follows five predictable steps:
Hook: They offer reviews or recommendations of “free” CV or recommendations-book only 15 minutes.
Flattery: During the call they shower candidates with compliments, but do not only provide little or no feedback.
Ask: It asks for 5 -star evaluation and shining assessments.
Pivot: After stacking 50+ shining reviews from free sessions, they start charging $ 1,000 for 30 minutes of consultation and launching the market as a “5-star rating of 50 or more users”. Catch? These reviews came from free sessions.
Profit: Those despair and are preparing for job seekers who believe they are receiving initiated leadership. In fact, they are cheated on someone whose own career may not be as solid as they say.
Screengrab from a viral post.
To make matters worse, these influencers work in packages, popularity, reposting and angry the content of the other to inflate credibility and expand their range.
Recommendations should be organic – the approval of someone’s potential, not a commodity for sale. Yet this growing trend to LinkedIn is changing the real effort to find employment to the fraud market.
The post quickly became viral and evoked a number of reactions from social media users.
One user wrote: “Yeah, this shit gets out of hand. I know that dude that spams like five posts a day about accidental shit. There are also people who charge 4000 for one hour lol. I don’t think they earn 4000 per hour in their real work.”
Another said, “There’s the guy to LinkedIn who is constantly sending recommendations and telling people to be interested if they are interested. But at the end of each post he mentions his DM is full, and if someone is smart enough, he would know how to contact him – and then gives a link to his time.
The similarity of forced bribes is mysterious. ”
Another said “I stopped using LinkedIn. It is full of these spam posts. Nothing value.
On the other hand, Indian young people have created idols of these influences and are busy promoting them instead of building their own career. Most of them are students who have no knowledge of how things work in the corporate, and the remaining are slogers in witch companies that create a regular contribution about how the best influence is the best and likely to get 500 R. “
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