How can you protect your online privacy when you're job searching? First of all, you need to be careful, really careful about what information you give out online and who you give it to because there are scammers waiting to grab it.
There are a number of ways in which scammers seek to steal job searchers' personal information including pretending to be an employer and collecting your information from a job board, listing fake job openings online, saying they will file for unemployment for you, sending email asking you to apply for a job or even saying you've got a job offer.
Here's information on the most common identity theft scams and advice on how to avoid identity theft while job searching.
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