Complaint Review: Employment Express Pro Career Network - Orlando Florida

The Career Network is owned by Ayman El-Difrawi, who goes by numerous aliases including Alec Defrawi, Alec Defrawy, Alex Defrawi, Alexander Simon, etc.  Job search sites owned by El-Difrawi use Applicant Tree or Gigats application forms.  Information on the forms is collected only for use by college recruiters and for other fraudulent purposes.

Applicant Tree and Gigats now indicate they are powered by the Employer Network (employer-network.com).  Job search sites that use Applicant Tree and Gigats include the Healthcare Jobsite, Business Workforce, Construction JobForce, TechCareers, Logistics Jobsite, Mikeroweworks.com, SalesHeads.com, Financial JobBank, the Education Jobsite, Engineer Jobs and the Hospitality Jobsite, among others.  All of the job postings from these sites indicate they are owned by Beyond (displaying the beyond.com logo), The Career Network.

Sometimes legitimate job search sites will link to job ads posted by one of the college recruiter job site, so exercise caution no matter which job search engine you use.  Always look for the Beyond/Career Network/Employer Network name on a job posting before clicking on the link to apply.  If one of those names appear, go directly to the employer website to see if the job opening actually exists.

Recently, Beyond also acquired JobCircle.  The fraudulent job search sites owned by El-Difrawi already dominate the Internet job search arena and the network continues to grow steadily.  It really is exasperating that someone can go to such an extent to sabotage the job search efforts of people in dire need of employment, and nothing is done to stop the exploitation of honest job seekers.

These are all part of the same well know Scam networks. Beware! They steal your information through illegal means and sell it to others. They post fake ads, sometimes posing as real employers.

 Report them to http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx and the FTC https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

 A real company in good standing will be listed on the Better Business Bureau  http://www.bbb.org/

I'm sorry that you feel our recruitment practices are not meeting your needs. I'm sure this is only due to a misunderstanding of us and our business. Allow me to clear up any confusion by explaining who we are and what it is we exactly do. Career Network is a new job board that is free to use by both job seekers and employers. Currently, there are thousands of jobs throughout the country available for application on our network of employment sites. We actively market those opportunities to individuals who have previously expressed interest in receiving employment offers. This works as a benefit for our corporate clients as we actively reach hundreds of potential applicants who had not previously been introduced to the opportunity through traditional job ads. To keep our services free to both job seekers and employers we do offer advertising verticals on the site. However they are completely voluntary and do not in any way affect job seekers' consideration for the listed employment opportunities. We act only as an intermediary between the applicants and the hiring companies, and do not interfere with the delivery of submitted resumes for any reason. To do so would jeopardize our relationships not only with our corporate clients but our advertising partners as well. Once those resumes are delivered, the rest of the process is solely in the hand of the employer. The decision to hire, not hire, contact, etc. is theirs alone. If they receive a large amount of resumes, they may require extra time to respond to the applicants who did not make the cut. From personal experience, I have received that letter as long as six months after I applied for a position. The references section was created at the request of several of our corporate clients who wanted that information included in the resume file we send to them. References are not typically included on a resume, and our clients feel that having them upfront will speed up the hiring process on their end. We only offer the service as an add on feature to clients, one they specifically have to request. However, so many clients are requesting it, that it has almost become standard. Furthermore, let me assure you that nothing will be done with yours, or your references', personal information that you or they do not expressly authorize. Foremost, since you are applying for a position, your resume will be transmitted to the employer who will then consider you for a job based solely on your skills and education. Beyond that, we will only connect you with our promotional partners if you agree to it during the application process. We have signed agreements with all of our corporate clients. It is possible that the person you contacted was not aware of this agreement; or you contacted a company with a similar job, but not the one we listed. Although we are fallible, and it is possible one slipped through, we have quality assurance controls in place to prevent an expired job from being listed on our site. If this occurs again, please notify us at [email protected] with the job in question, and we will research the issue.

Since I received follow up emails from Career Network requesting names and phone numbers of my references, is this cause for concern? Do you think this agency will sell or pass along the personal information of my references? Has anyone looked into this already?