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Anne-Marie worked for years in public health, but when she found herself between jobs recently, she logged on to sites like Indeed and ZipRecruiter to look for something short-term, flexible and online, like data entry.
“I submitted a bunch of really quick applications for jobs like that,” says Anne-Marie (whose name has been changed at her request and lives in Atlanta).
This wasn’t the first time she had worked remotely, and she knew that “sometimes these companies operate a little differently. It’s not quite the same as the traditional in-person interview with HR. It’s a lot less formal.”
So, Anne-Marie didn’t blink when she received an email from a Belgium-based company saying that they liked her resume and wanted to schedule a virtual interview. Yes, it struck her as odd that the interview was for the following day, a Sunday morning, but that didn’t matter, because the job sounded so good: a signing bonus, full benefits, paid time off, a 401(k)… the whole package.
The interview was held on a messaging app called Wire that Anne-Marie hadn’t used before, but otherwise…
