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Protect Your Privacy When Job-hunting Online
Identity theft and identity fraud are terms usedto refer to all types of
crime in which someonewrongfully obtains and uses another person’spersonal data
in some way that involves fraud ordeception, typically for economic gain.
The numbers associated with identity theft are beginning to add up fast
these days. Arecent General Accounting Office report estimates that as many as
750,000 Americans arevictims of identity theft every year. And that number may
be low, as many people choose notto report the crime even if they know they have
been victimized.
Identity theft is “an absolute epidemic,” states Robert Ellis Smith, a
respected author andadvocate of privacy. “It’s certainly picked up in the last
four or five years. It’s worldwide. Itaffects everybody, and there’s very little
you can do to prevent it and, worst of all, you can’tdetect it until it’s
probably too late.”
Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to
someone else fortheir use, you personal data, especially your social security
number, your bank account orcredit card number, your telephone calling card
number, and other valuable identifying data, can be used, if they fall into the
wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense. In theUnited States and
Canada, for example, many people have reported that unauthorized personshave
taken funds out of their bank or financial accounts, or, in the worst cases,
taken overtheir identities altogether, running up vast debts and committing
crimes while using thevictims’ names. In many cases, a victim’s losses may
included not only out-of-pocket financiallosses, but substantial additional
financial costs associated with trying to restore hisreputation in the community
and correcting erroneous information for which the criminal isresponsible.
According to the FBI, identity theft is the number one fraud committed on
the Internet. So how do job seekers protect themselves while continuing to
circulate their resumes online? The key to a successful online job search is
learning to manager the risks. Here are some tipsfor staying safe while
conducting a job search on the Internet.
1. Check for a privacy policy.
If you are considering posting your resume online, make sure the job search
site your areconsidering has a privacy policy, like CareerBuilder.com. The
policy should spell out how yourinformation will be used, stored and whether or
not it will be shared. You may want to thinktwice about posting your resume on a
site that automatically shares your information withothers. You could be opening
yourself up to unwanted calls from solicitors (推销员).
When reviewing the site’s privacy policy, you’ll be able to delete your
resume just aseasily as you posted it. You won’t necessarily want your resume to
remain out there on theInternet once you land a job. Remember, the longer your
resume remains posted on a jobboard, the more exposure, both positive and
not-so-positive, it will receive.
2. Take advantage of site features.
Lawful job search sites offer levels of privacy protection. Before posting
your resume, carefully consider your job search objective and the level of risk
you are willing to assume.
CareerBuilder.com, for example, offers three levels of privacy from which
job seekers canchoose. The first is standard posting. This option gives job
seekers who post their resumes themost visibility to the broadest employer
audience possible.
The second is anonymous (匿名的) posting. This allows job seekers the same
visibility asthose in the standard posting category without any of their contact
information beingdisplayed. Job seekers who wish to remain anonymous but want to
share some otherinformation may choose which pieces of contact information to
display.
The third is private posting. This option allows a job seeker to post a
resume withouthaving it searched by employers. Private posting allows job
seekers to quickly and easily applyfor jobs that appear on CareerBuilder.com
without retyping their information.
3. Safeguard your identity.
Career experts say that one of the ways job seekers can stay safe while
using the Internetto search out jobs is to conceal their identities. Replace
your name on your resume with ageneric (泛指的) identifier, such as “Intranet
Developer Candidate,” or “Experienced MarketingRepresentative.”
You should also consider eliminating the name and location of your current
employer. Depending on your title, it may not be all that difficult to determine
who you are once thename of your company is provided. Use a general description
of the company such as “Majorauto manufacturer,” or “International packaged
goods supplier.”
If your job title is unique, consider using the generic equivalent instead
of the exact titleassigned by your employer.
4. Establish and email address for your search.
Another way to protect your privacy while seeking employment online is to
open up anemail account specifically for your online job search. This will
safeguard your existing emailbox in the event someone you don’t know gets hold
of your email address and shares it withothers.
Using an email address specifically for you job search also eliminates the
possibility thatyou will receive unwelcome emails in your primary mailbox. When
naming your new emailaddress, be sure that it doesn’t contain references to your
name or other information that willgive away your identity. The best solution is
an email address that is relevant to the jobyou are seeking such as
Salesmgr2004@provider.com
5. Protect your reference.
If your resume contains a section with the names and contact information of
yourreferences, take it out. There’s no sense in safeguarding your information
while sharing privatecontact information of your references.
6. Keep confidential (机密的) information confidential.
Do not, under any circumstances, share your social security, driver’s
license, and bankaccount numbers or other personal information, such as race or
eye color. Honest employers donot need this information with an initial
application. Don’t provide this even if they say theyneed it in order to conduct
a background check. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book – don’t fall
for it.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
46.Using a special email address in the job search can help prevent you
from receivingunwelcome emails in your primary mailbox.
47.In many cases, identity theft not only causes the victims immediate
financial losses butcosts them a lot to restore their reputation.
48.Employers don t require applicants to submit very personal information
on backgroundchecks.
49.Robert Ellis Smith believes identity theft is difficult to detect and
one can hardly doanything to prevent it.
50.Identity theft is the first fraud committedon the Internet.
51.It is important that your resume not stay online longer than is
necessary.
52.There are three options offered by CareerBuilder.com in Suggestion
2.
53.Applicants are advised to use generic names for themselves and their
current employerswhen seeking employment online.
54.To protect your references, you should not post online their names and
contact information.
55.According to the passage, identity theft is committed typically for
economic gain.
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发表于 2017-12-8 20:19:04