Fake degrees on Monster

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by JohnSD, Jan 17, 2002.

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  1. JohnSD

    JohnSD New Member

    Dr. Bear wrote about this in the past. But, the opportunity has presented itself where I can look at monster's resumes for the purpose of screening people. I just need to get a list of, "keywords" to search for as in colleges and such. I'll share the results.

    Thanks
     
  2. KidDL

    KidDL member

    I have just one question - not trying to be mean here but just wondering why you want to share the results here? Are you giving numbers? Names? Just curious.
     
  3. JohnSD

    JohnSD New Member

    Maybe your right, people might take this the wrong way. I was just going to post the results of the colleges I found, not names. I thought it might be interesting to people that follow DL and all the scams. I have withdrawn my offer. Moderators please delete this post.
     
  4. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Dear JohnSD -- I hope you will reconsider your reconsideration. It could be awfully interesting to get some data on the usage of fake degrees among Monster's 9 million or so resumes. I agree there is nothing to be gained by posting the names of the high school principals, ministers, salespeople, whatever here. But the totals would be of real interest -- and, of course, if you found something "big" then there would be the challenge of what to do next -- if it were, for instance, the sort of thing ABC felt was newsworthy, such as the engineer at a nuclear power plant, the fake doctors, etc.

    If you decide to take this a step further, send me an Email, and I'll gladly provide a list of the 20-or-so totally fake schools that had the most customers when I did my Monster research last year.

    John Bear, [email protected]
     

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