The post was created by a recruiting company to illustrate LinkedIn's bug, which allowed users to posts jobs without companies' permission.
Michel Rijners, founder of Dutch online recruiting company Flexwerven, alerted LinkedIn to the issue on Thursday with aRijnders wrote that"everyone can post jobs that are assigned to any employer of their choosing." To prove his finding, he created fake job posts for CEO positions at Google and Linkedin.
Rijners noted in his post that he was able to create these job listings for free, and they appeared to be officially posted by the companies on LinkedIn. He could receive the job applications on LinkedIn or set up an external URL for applicants to be redirected to from the post. Rijners foresaw"phishing and identity fraud" as potential issues stemming from fraudulent job posts.
"For a while I noticed scrapers, like Jooble, posting massive amounts of jobs at companies on LinkedIn without consent of those companies," Rijnders said in a statement to."The bad thing is [the scrapers] collect the application details of applicants who think they actually apply at the company." Rockwell explained that a recruiting firm is permitted to post a job on LinkedIn on behalf of a company, with that company's permission. LinkedIn was running a test allowing small and medium businesses to post some jobs for free, and Rijnders was part of that test, according to Rockwell.
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