Hound.com is a SCAM
For almost a year now JobShouts has been working very hard at delivering value to our employers and job seekers. During this time, we have seen a lot of garbage masquerading as jobs. Heck let’s face it there is enough pond scum out there who will gladly take advantage of you, given the right opportunity.
We really have no experience with Hound in the traditional sense. We are not job seekers. We don’t know or care what kind of jobs they have on their site. However, they have taken it upon themselves to post their jobs on our board – blatantly against our terms of service and AFTER repeated warnings. So many times in fact, that we now have nearly 1500 IP addresses banned from accessing jobshouts.com.
Can I say I just love how easy it is to ban an entire class C subnet with our firewall? Thanks Media Temple. 🙂 You guys rock for including that.
Hound.com also operates as lawcrossing.com, employmentcrossing.com, and HRcrossing.com. They may have a hundred more websites. This geek couldn’t care less but your jobs are NOT welcome on our board. We will never allow that to happen. EVER.
This morning I was greeted with a link to the content above via Google Alerts. I have Alerts set up so that anytime someone mentions JobShouts by name or by URL I get a notice. This notice, I’ll admit, completely incensed me. I cannot really get my head around the fact that hound.com is willing to pay a freelancer to post positions from their site to our site. Are they for real? What the F?
My immediate reaction at first was to contact the shorttask.com team and inform them of this flagrant violation against our terms of service.
Then I sat back and thought about it for a minute. Now I am blogging it to the world. Let the crawlers and spiders find this content. Maybe a wary job-seeker will be wise and find this before parting with their money. JobShouts believes that job seekers should NOT be paying fees for access to jobs. That is just retarded, that is what is ruining the online job experience for seekers.
Sites like the ladders.com and hound.com and its affiliates are not helping anyone. Especially when all the jobs they list are also on the large aggregates as well. Don’t waste your time with them. We certainly won’t!
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Comment made by jennbowen on Jan 7th 2010 at 2:38 pm:
This guy is amazing! Thank you for sharing the information about ShortTask, we went and searched and found our client sites listed in there as well. Just an FYI Harrison Barnes owns and runs that site…must be his recruiting ground for his scammers.
Comment made by Guest on Jan 27th 2010 at 2:12 pm:
Harrison Barnes is responsible for all the spiders invading all the job boards out there. He has an office in India running 24hrs doing just that. It is so absurd seeing all the B.S. Harrison puts out there as if the internet were a secret place where nothing is known… Newsflash Harrison everything and anything comes out!
Comment made by Guest on Jan 27th 2010 at 7:12 pm:
Harrison Barnes is responsible for all the spiders invading all the job boards out there. He has an office in India running 24hrs doing just that. It is so absurd seeing all the B.S. Harrison puts out there as if the internet were a secret place where nothing is known… Newsflash Harrison everything and anything comes out!
Comment made by Eokray on Aug 27th 2010 at 4:10 am:
Hi, my name is Erica, I am a recent grad and desperate to find a well paying job in chicago. I have been struggling and I truly believe like most people out there, it's not that I am lazy, I just do NOT know where to begin. I have no reliable source to apply through or to even find REAL AVAILABLE jobs through. I am so desperate and pathetic. I worked hard my whole like, have 100,000 in debts for my undergrad and am stuck being a bank teller. Am I just a moron? How do millions of people find success in Chicago and I get rereouted to terrible sites like HOUND.COM?? If anyone can give me any advice you would mae my dreams come true! Thanks
Comment made by Jim on Mar 30th 2011 at 5:50 pm:
Eokray
Don’t waste your time on ANY internet job site. Get off you butt, go outside with a handful of resumes and walk into firms you would like to wok for. Ask 5 friends if they know what you want to do, when they don’t know tell them and ask for referrals. Bet your best friends have never seen your resume and don’t know, specifically, what you want to do with your career. Ask whoever loaned you 100,000 for a referral as they have a vested interest. Ask your Pastor if you can put a blurb in the church bulletin. Post your resume on Facebook( I know, this contradicts my earlier internet comment). Contact your school’s placement office for direction. Ask your Dad/Mon for 10 names you can call. Did I mention network. Ask for ideas from your butcher, backer and candle maker. It’s a job to find a job, go to work!!
Comment made by Ronm on Nov 23rd 2011 at 11:53 am:
The comment from Jim below makes sense, although a bit harsh (which isn’t a bad thing). Please send me your resume and I’m pleased to help where I can. [email protected]
Comment made by President on Sep 28th 2010 at 11:54 pm:
We agree. Well written! They have been attempting to infiltrate our site as well, and it`s such obvious FRAUD!! Affiliates are essentially painted with the same brush, even if they tell themselves they are only in it for the “traffic”!
Time to “Clean Things Up”
President
employmentheaven.com
Comment made by Ronm on Nov 23rd 2011 at 12:45 pm:
I don’t have a problem with charging job-seekers a small affordable fee to help them with their career. This is how “the wheel goes around”. I have been helping people [for free] for many years and ironically the ones who have a vested interested were the ones who apply themselves. If people took the time and invested in their careers they might be further along or perhaps were not the “last one standing when the music stops”.