As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, UC Davis Information and Educational Technology (IET) is highlighting four important topics related to cybersecurity each week of October 2023. Week one is personal cybersecurity. Click the links below to learn how you can protect yourself online.
Protect yourself from job scams
Members of the campus community, especially students, are reminded to keep an eye out for false jobs listings when searching for work or internship opportunities online.
Scammers create and maintain fraudulent postings on many reputable job boards, for monetary gain, including Handshake and even networking sites like LinkedIn. While every position that is posted to Handshake is vetted, sometimes fraudulent postings make it through.
Scammers may also directly contact you, for example through email or phone, soliciting to hire you for an open job position. Some will even go as far as stating that they represent an established company. They may even reference UC Davis in some way to make them seem more legitimate.