Mark Anthony Dyson

Chicago

Career Writer| ✍️BLs: “The Job Scam Report” on @Substack, @LensaInc, @Payscale 🎙️: https://t.co/4EvY7OkThJ | 👀 in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Co.

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The Job Scam Report

1 week ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

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How to Identify Social Media Career Services Scams

1 week ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

In this short podcast episode, I explain how a scammer tried to lure one of our LinkedIn Live participants into resume writing services. Bad actors pull out all the stops, and you must carry the same energy. Their efforts are increasing as layoffs and job separations intensify. Our podcast episode during LinkedIn Live experienced this in a subtle but bodacious way. Referrals are becoming increasingly common.
How To Navigate The Worst Fake Job Market Ever

2 weeks ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

It’s wild to experience as a job seeker in 2025, a “fake job market” can hinder your reach to actual hiring employers. You are searching for opportunities in a landmine of fake employers, hiring managers, recruiters, career services professionals, and referrers. This is a critical time in the modern job search, where it’s essential to verify the authenticity of anyone claiming to offer assistance.
How To Be "Search Everywhere Optimization" Ready And Combat Job Scams

3 weeks ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

Remember “Search Engine Optimization” and how it helps businesses and people get found online? It’s keyword—or key phrase-driven, and those who master it enhance and increase authority, traffic, or notoriety. “Search Everywhere Optimization” is a valuable discussion to explore how job seekers can craft an online presence to get noticed, possibly referred, or secure job opportunities uniquely suited to them. Allow me to pontificate. The job search game has changed.
How To Make Grounded Job Moves Despite AI Job Scams

3 weeks ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

Before I dive into today’s article, I wanted to inform you about the upcoming LinkedIn Live episode of “The Job Scam Report podcast”. The class of 2025 graduates entering this job market must navigate the "Fake Job Market" and "The Actual Job Market." No matter how it appears, it's a landmine of sorts. New graduates are also entering the "fake job market,” arguably the worst job market in five years. I hope graduates are prepared to scrutinize everything they can't feel or touch.
The Sudden Surge And Growth of AI Fake Employees

1 month ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

Can you imagine one of your coworkers you’ve communicated with is not a coworker? How can you share company secrets or shallow gossip about other avatars when conversing via email or text with someone who is not a coworker? Just as job seekers are bombarded with job scams through every communication means possible, companies are, too. Jack Kelly, Senior Career Contributor at Forbes, asked me to provide a perspective.
How to Identify & Avoid Subtle Job Scam Signs

1 month ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

For this week’s article, I’ve included some reminders and tips to help you navigate the tricky waters of job scams. For those of you joining us for the first time and who may have recently experienced a job separation, no matter the reason, welcome.
How to Better Protect Yourself Against Job Scams

1 month ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

I wanted to share new job scam data from the and the Federal Trade Commission. You should read the articles in their entirety because you can glean other measures of protection from “scammy behavior” in any scam to apply to your life. One factor to keep in mind several factors with the numbers:Not all job scams (like all other scams were not reported. Likely, there’s more monetary loss than reported.
How To Fight Layoff PTSD And Combat Job Scams

2 months ago | markanthonydyson.substack.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

During last week’s LinkedIn Live, Jay Jones mentioned “Layoff PTSD,” and I automatically thought about how mentally draining it must be for all of us to hear about it so much. Layoff PTSD is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder occurs after experiencing job loss through layoffs. Combating job scams while experiencing trauma can make your ability to fend them off harder if the sword feels 100 pounds heavier than usual.
How Winners Easily Embrace Losers Who Are Really Winners

2 months ago | thevoiceofjobseekers.com | Mark Anthony Dyson

The job market today is unrecognizable from 2022. It was a job-seeker market. Most people are waiting to change jobs if they can. It’s a smart move. But eventually, the levees will break as far as opportunities are concerned. Preparation should be the mantra right now. It’s not a good time to be Charlie Brown, so I thought. Read the rest of the story. Growing up, my favorite books were the Charlie Brown volumes my mom bought me. If I wanted to read, I read Charlie Brown.