AUSTIN – Job search site Indeed rolled out a new feature called “Indeed Wrapped” that reveals which job listings posted this year were actually phishing scams, insiders confirm.
“In recent years, we’ve received a lot of feedback from Indeed users regarding the egregious abundance of predatory scams featured on our website,” said Indeed CEO Chris Hyams. “So, we really wanted to show our users that we are listening. To be clear, we have absolutely no intention of cracking down on these harmful fake job listings in the foreseeable future, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care. The decision to introduce Indeed Wrapped is all about caring for our users. Now, they can still provide all the personal, private information they want to exploitative third-party companies, with the added bonus of a fun, short recap that they can share with friends.”
Praise for the company’s new feature has already begun to pour in from Indeed users everywhere.
“I have to admit, I was surprised when I saw my Indeed Wrapped this year,” said Natalie Wilkes, who’s been looking for a job on Indeed for over three months now. “ I mean there were just so many listings that I thought for sure were real companies and jobs, but it turns out, I applied to 3,428 scams this year, and only four real jobs. It actually made me kind of proud, I’m in the top 0.2% of users who blindly shared their Social Security Numbers this year, so I got that going for me.”
Indeed’s marketing director also shared with us some very exciting plans for the future of the platform.
“There’s a project we’re working on for next year that I’m particularly stoked about: Indeed Rewind,” said Michael Remington while pointing to a colorful moodboard. “The idea for Rewind is a fun, musical video featuring some of the most prolific abusers of our predatory system sharing and celebrating all of our users’ personal information for your entertainment. We think it’s really gonna blow up on social media, and we might try making a time machine so we can post it to YouTube in 2011.”
At press time, Wilkes was desperately trying to follow up on an application to a company whose only available contact information is a mailing address in Laos.