I saw an interesting post on Craigslist for a job that was titled Financial Sales. When I clicked on the posting I was not really surprised to see what I consider most likely a scam type job. There seems to be quite a few scam jobs listed at any one time. The dead give-aways for scam jobs almost always utilize the word "self-starter" and/or "motivated." This job didn't require motivation just a self-starter for selling something to public companies as opposed to private companies. Not sure of the difference. The other interesting thing about this particular post is they only want to hire a hungry person. I am unclear whether they are referring to hungry for knowledge, work, money or food or if they mean all of those.... Hungry is not typically a word used in job postings unless the position is for a professional eater, food taster or restaurant mystery shopper. For some reason it reminds of "Angry for Coins" with Coinbird (which I still think is the most brilliant piece of crapanimation on the web--shout out to Will Smith, one of the funniest people I have ever met). Also, if they want hungry people I would recommend tacking the posting up on the bulletin boards at Weight Watchers meetings or churches where they have those TOPS meetings as well. There are probably many hungry people at those diet meeting centers.....
Overall, this job posting does include the usual descriptive terminology one would list in a legitimate advertisement--yet it still reeks of direct sales such as Amway, Quixstar, Avon or Tupperware. I am not clear which of those direct sales companies would be marketing public companies so maybe there is a new one that sells pens and pencils, printers, paper or other happy and interesting office supplies that will make your life that much easier with things you didn't know you needed before you purchased them. The posting also uses double spacing between sentences which is a plus. It lacked commas and hyphens where I feel they should be included. The posting also leaves out pertinent information for contacting the poster other than the blind email and omits hours of operation or status as full-time or part-time. I would grade this posting as a "B". Good job poster. This is a better than average scam job posting.
