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Received and email from a recruitment consultancy. So far, so normal. The main text is below along with a link. There are lots of other job titles with similar links at the bottom of the email.

Would you click the link?

I hope this mail finds you well.

If you have a moment, Id appreciate your help. Please look and forward this job on to anyone you think would be interested in the position, or anyone else who could help me find a great candidate. Thanks for your help!

It’s a really good position, and the company has many benefits for its employees.

Please click here http://bit.ly/1ihbAkh for more information and I look forward to hearing from.

I look forward to your feedback.

Regards

Sarah


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 11:56 am
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To be honest I would never use a recruitment agent that can't be arsed to either use my name at the start, or give me details of the position in the email. So I'd say scam.


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 11:58 am
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No


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 11:58 am
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Deserves to be treated as a scam even if it's not.


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 11:59 am
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Yes, I just did. It's a sortlink (gawd knows why), to this page:
http://eu.arithon.com/rss/arithon_5517/23286

Head of Consultancy and Professional Services must be in within reasonable commute)

Head of Consultancy and Professional Services required. Looking for a strong Project management background, especially with complex enterprise software, gained within a professional services / consultancy environment. Telco experience would be highly advantageous.

Based South West London with travel (mainly UK, with some European & further afield). Salary; c. £80,000 + bonus + bens + share options after probation period

Don't think you could take the pay cut, WCA đŸ˜‰

ps. you can get money for referring people via bit.ly links, probably why they do it.


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:00 pm
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bitly is a fairly standard way of generating links for social media now as the url's are short (and thus twitter friendly).

I tend to judge the sender very carefully before following any from people I don't know, though.

In this case, if you think it's a dodgy link don't go posting it on stw đŸ™‚


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:01 pm
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What you have to remember is that a lot of recruitment agents are complete idiots, however they often have real jobs that can be good.


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:08 pm
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[i]a lot of recruitment agents are complete idiots[/i]

hora to the thread! hora to the thread!


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:09 pm
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You can preview bitly links by adding '+' to the end: http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/136551-can-i-preview-a-shortlink-before-clicking-on-it


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:19 pm
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[i]You can preview bitly links by adding '+' to the end[/i]

Thats good. Even shows you who shortened it!


 
Posted : 07/05/2014 12:31 pm

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