While I rarely post 'blogosphere' related stuff here, I'll talk about something that I can really relate to. Blogger
Tess Termulo recently wrote about what seems to her is a new recruitment ploy of some companies.
What happens is that you get a phone call from a person introducing himself/herself as an agent of sorts and offers you a job at their company. I got a similar phone call about a month ago inviting me for an interview in becoming one of their employees (I forgot what the job was about). I said okay and we scheduled the interview.
After I put down the phone, I had this uneasy feeling in me, the kind of gut feel that I was being duped into something. Maybe it was the vagueness of the caller about the job or something else but something felt out of place. So I decided to my research about their company over the internet.
I later found out that it was a multilevel marketing company (MLM), also known as a network marketing company. The same company reaped tons of bad rep at the Pinoy Exchange forum which made me want to back out from the interview. I did so even if I said yes to the guy that I would be professional enough to show up.
I do show up at interviews. The only thing that made back out was the utter duplicity of it all. As a friend of mine said, half the truth is still a lie. So I took his vagueness as an act of hiding something from me.
What made the impact one me about the news of MLM companies calling up bloggers is that I recently wrote articles around that topic for a client just a few days ago. While my research told me that MLM companies are legit, what I can't understand is why they have to beat around the bush and dupe you instead of just saying that they want to sell you something.
I'm feeling quite guilty since the articles were pro-MLM, but let me do my good part here. While MLMs are legit, it's up to the person being recruited to do a background check on the company. Be wary because the line that divides them from pyramid schemes is so thin that even an electron microscope can't detect it.
