Recruitment Fraud Alert

Recruitment fraud is a sophisticated crime offering fictitious job opportunities. Criminals contact candidates and create a false recruitment process with the goal of gaining sensitive personal and financial information. This type of fraud is normally committed through online services such as bogus websites, fake job advertisements, text messages, unsolicited emails, and online instant messaging interviews claiming to be from HDR. The messages victims receive request them to provide personal information and, ultimately, sensitive financial information.

If you are asked for personal, financial or security information in an application process or what may be a suspicious interview process, this is likely a criminal posing as HDR to commit identity theft or other forms of fraud.

We would like to let you know how you can identify and protect yourself from criminals who use trusted brands like ours to scam unwitting victims through fraud recruitment. 

Identifying recruitment fraud:

• All open positions available with HDR will be posted www.HDRinc.com/careers. The web address where you will complete an employment application begins with "https://hdr.taleo.net/careersection/." HDR does post to third-party sites like LinkedIn, however all candidates will always be redirected to HDR’s career site to fill out an application. HDR does not use third-party collection sites created on sites such as Jotform.com for applications or other personal and financial information collection.
• HDR recruiters may use text messaging to stay in contact with candidates during the interviewing process, but they do not make offers of employment via text.  
• HDR does not ask prospective job applicants for information relating to accessing bank accounts, credit cards or personal financial information.
• We do not ask applicants to purchase equipment or software prior to their start date.
• We do not guarantee work from home positions in employment advertisements or emails.
• If HDR needs additional information as part of the hiring process, applicants will be contacted directly by an HDR recruiter or the hiring manager for a live discussion.
• We do not ask for checks to be processed before being interviewed. Perpetrators will often ask recipients to complete bogus recruitment documentation, such as application forms, terms and conditions of employment or visa forms. The HDR name and logo may sometimes be on the documentation without authority.
• We do not email offer letters to candidates. Criminals may produce offer letters that contain HDR’s logo, real office addresses, the names of actual employees listed as a supervisor and real phone numbers.  
• Candidates may be requested to contact other companies/individuals such as lawyers, bank officials, travel agencies, courier companies, visa/immigration processing agencies, etc.
• There is an insistence on urgency.
• We encourage anyone who is contacted by someone representing employment opportunities with HDR to request to speak with them directly and verify their address, title and phone number.
• HDR does not make job offers to candidates without having a live interview.  Initial HDR interview contacts may include a phone conversation with an HDR recruiter or a video interview using our video interviewing tools. All official HDR email communications will include the recruiter's direct contact information.
• Unusual or incorrect grammar is a warning sign. If you have been offered employment by someone who is not using proper grammar, please take caution and investigate the source of communication.

If you have been victimized through recruitment fraud crime, please contact your local authorities.