Finding a Finance Job during the Recession

With all the doom and gloom in the news about employment this week, thanks in no small part to the global financial meltdown, it’s easy to assume that jobs in finance are few and far between. We tell students that finance is a good sector to enter but this arguably only applies when the economy is stable. 

Today’s financial climate means that many people are questioning their desire to enter a banking, finance or accountancy job. Banks might have lost some wealth and power, but they continue to be incredibly important to the economy. Without business loans and credit the economy will stagnate so it’s in all our interests to ensure that the financial sector is functioning effectively. Is it silly to consider a career in finance when we are in the middle of a recession?

We're getting reports again that people, especially in the Netherlands and Belgium, are being inundated with spam, allegedly coming from us.  However, the spammer uses 'eurojobsnet.com' or 'europjobs.nl' or other email addresses that are similar to our email addresses. These spam messages have nothing to do with Eurojobs.com.

Eurojobs.com only sends out a confirmation message after someone has registered on the site and that's all the email you would generally get from us.

However, there seems to be a Russian spammer who abuses our domain name and sends out messages that claim to come from us.
You can check who the real sender is by opening the extended header of the email message and then use that IP address to perform an IP address check. This will generally reveal the ISP the spammer uses. The ISP should address the problem caused by the spammer through banning him from sending email through the ISP. Please complain with the ISP as this is the only way to permanently remove this nuisance.

In order to stop these messages you could also:

1. Ask your email provider to implement SPF (Sender Policy Framework) in order to distinguish between fake and real email messages. Once this is in place a mail server can see if messages actually come from the sender or whether it is spam.
This will stop the flow of spam messages immediately. Eurojobs.com is SPF compliant.

2. Create a filter in your email program for the email address they used, or use free programs such as Mailwasher to filter spam.

3. If you use Thunderbird or Outlook, download the Thunderbird SPF extention or a filter such as SpamFighter to verify if the sender of the email are who they claim they are.

4. If you are using BT/Yahoo or Ymail do the following:

Send an an email to abuse@bt.com and copy the long (extended) header of your email into this message. This contains information as to where the email originated. You will probably get a nondescript, automated reply from BT stating that you should ban the domain. Don't ban the domain as this means you will be banning another victim of this type of scam and you will still be blasted by spam.

(BT will only realise what they are advising when a BT.com address gets spoofed in a spam message and they tell you to ban BT.com. Pretty stupid advice!)

What BT/Yahoo really should do is implement the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) properly, so the amount of spam reaching your inbox reduces dramatically. SPF checks if the email comes from the authenticated IP address linked to the domain. If not, the email is spam and should be binned automatically.

If BT fobs you off, send them another email demanding they implement SPF automatically rather than leaving it up to you to activate it.

BT/Yahoo SpamGuard (For what it's worth)

Keep SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:

1. Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
2. Click Spam from the list on the left.
3. In the “SpamGuard” section, next to “Control SpamGuard,” do you see a check in the box beside “Automatically send suspected spam to my Spam folder”? If so, great! SpamGuard is ON. If not, turn it on by placing a check in that box.
4. In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.

Also in the “SpamGuard” section, you can specify how often you’d like Yahoo to empty your Spam folder (They do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), and you can indicate your preference for showing – or blocking – images. Image blocking is another effective way to fend off spam!

How can you report spam on Yahoo?

Easy! Don’t open a spam message. Just click inside the check-box next to it, then click Spam to let Yahoo know it’s something you’d rather not ever see again. Yahoo pays a lot of attention to spam you report to them. It gives them tools to disrupt the latest tricks and techniques that spammer individuals and spammer companies are using to try to evade the Yahoo filters.

Reports of spam originating from a Yahoo! Mail account (i.e.,user@domain.com) receive their special attention. Since spamming is expressly prohibited in Yahoo!’s Terms of Use, any account caught spamming will be canceled.

If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.

Report spam on other sites:

You can report spammers on iPillion.com