Last week, I posted my resume at I am Buffalo Niagara Jobs.

Today, I got a call from someone who said he saw my resume on the site and wanted to invite me to an information session tomorrow evening. He said the company was doing some expanding in the area and had some opportunities that might be right for me. I took the information and said I would try to attend.

He told me the company name was Primerica. I first searched the website for any job postings from them. I didn’t find anything. Then I did a google search. The first thing I turned up was their official website, which let me know that Citigroup is their parent company. I poked around a bit to see if they had anything remotely resembling a job that I would ever want to do. I found nothing.

I went back to the google search page and clicked on a few of the other links. I found this page, with a bunch of links to various people’s experiences with Primerica. Basically, I learned that some people argue that it’s a scam or pyramid scheme…others make a case for it being a legitimate business. But regardless of which is true, I found this “recruiting” technique to be dishonest and shady. They get people to come to these meetings and try to get them to agree to become representatives for the company and fork over money for training. If I hadn’t been savvy enough to find something out about the company first, I would have wasted my time. I certainly wouldn’t have signed on, but I’m sure I would have been subject to an extremely aggressive and annoying sales pitch. No, thanks.