Friday, 17 August 2012

Sleep with the boss for a job, says Wuhan recruitment ad

Some jobs have very particular requirements on this recruitment website. (Internet Photo)

Some jobs have very particular requirements on this recruitment website.
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Finding a job in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei province, is as simple as sleeping with the president of a company, according to a post on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.

An online post showed the webpage of a well-known recruitment website. A manager working for the company said the ad was sabotaged by a disgruntled former employee, reports the local Wuhan Evening News.

The post has drawn a large amount of attention from netizens, some who believe the post was a prank played by someone looking to smear the company's reputation, but also questioned why the recruiter would allow such an ad to be posted.

The customer service representative for the recruiter, job51, confirmed to reporters that the Wuhan company is their client, explaining they offered the company's HR staff an account to edit job information. The recruiter checks every time a client revises the website.

The company conducted a revision on Aug. 8, the same day the webpage showed the inappropriate content, according to the representative. The website administrator blocked the page five hours after spotting the post and contacted the company the next day.

The representative did not offer an answer as to why the staff took five hours to find and bring the situation under control.

The manager, surnamed Ma, told the reporter that they noticed the content change on Aug. 8 and received a call from the website the next day. They have since fixed the problem. "This is a prank played by a former employee, probably seeking revenge," Ma said, surmising that the employee had the account ID and password and revised the content. Ma has changed the password of the account.

Ma later contacted the reporter and confirmed that a previous employee had committed the act, saying "our

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