May 19, 2020 02:09 PM
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They got in touch with me when I updated in LinkedIn and Naukri, that I had resigned from my current company & was actively looking for opportunities. I was based in China & they called for jobs in Singapore(monster.com.sg). The salespeople were based in Hyderabad and informed me that they had multiple openings in SG and I need to buy their service to avail those opportunities. They named all big banks and consulting companies and told that for my experience(12 yrs) I can easily get >12000 SGD per month. They quoted the price as INR 28, 500, but as I was in China and all my bank cards were not working, I could arrange for maximum INR 25.000. He made me stay on the call and agreed to give the service for INR 25k.
They worked on the resume and created a 2 page resume, in 4-5 days(The resume was fine). However, it has been already >7 months & I have not received a single mail or call regarding any job opportunity. I called them up multiple times in between, and once the sales guy had told me that there were a few recruiters who tried to contact me on my China number, however as I was in India, they could not reach me. It was an outright lie, as I had provided both the Indian & Chinese phone number. He told that they would be forwarding, but nothing happened after that. It has been now almost 10 months and I have stopped contacting them anyways. I was lucky to get a job offer in between, however joining has been delayed due to the Corona Virus pandemic. Hopefully, I will join in a couple of months.
So, I believe that they are a group of fraudsters, who are trying to loot job seekers, even at a time when the job seekers are broke and without any job. These Monster guys must be seriously ashamed of themselves. I believe they are justifying their company name, that is, they are real monsters.
My advise to others would be that stay away from all these paid services from the job portals. If a company needs people, and if you have the right capabilities, the company will find you anyways. You don't need to pay to these sort of mediators/dalaals(Indian slang for broker or pimps). Happy job hunting.
