Fraudulent Job Offers

Is my Huron job offer fraudulent?

Huron never requires any form of payment from job applicants under any circumstances.

What are fraudulent job offers?

Scammers posing as representatives of Huron and our leaders create fake job offers to entice job seekers. These fraudulent offers often require applicants to pay upfront for training materials, certifications, or background checks. Once the payment is made, the promised job never materializes.

These offers are not from Huron and are part of recruitment scams. Huron does not charge any fees from job applicants under any circumstances. We hope that by making you aware of this, we can help prevent and stop victims from falling for these scams.

The following are signs that you may be targeted by scammers:

• Lack of Formal Interview Process: Prospective candidates for Huron go through several stages in the recruitment process, including considerations by various internal leaders/team members before an offer is extended.
• Unsolicited Offers: You are offered a job before being interviewed.
• Suspicious Email Addresses: All valid Huron correspondence will come from an official @hcg.com or @huronconsultinggroup.com email address.
• Upfront Payment of Fees: Are you being asked to pay processing fees, travel fees, visa fees or make a payment of any other kind, Huron never seeks fees from job applicants.
• Requests for Personal Information: The scammers will often ask recipients to complete bogus recruitment documentation, such as application forms through non-Huron career site.
• Poor Communication: They will often communicate via text message or other text- based applications; often, the communications will contain spelling and grammatical errors.
• Requests to contact non-Huron entities: Candidates are requested to contact other companies/individuals such as lawyers, bank officials, travel agencies, courier companies, visa/immigration processing agencies, etc.
• Too good to be true: Unrealistically high salaries, guaranteed income, or offers that seem overly generous compared to industry standards.
• Ambiguous Job Descriptions: job description is vague or doesn’t specify the actual duties or responsibilities.
• Urgency and Pressure Tactics: There is an unusual insistence on urgency.

What to do if you receive a suspected fraudulent job offer?

• If you are the victim of phishing or fraudulent job offers, contact your local law enforcement or the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center: https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Please do not:

• Respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers of employment from people with whom you are unfamiliar.
• Disclose your personal or financial details to anyone you do not know.
• Send any money to these individuals.
• Engage in further communication if you believe the communication may be fraudulent.