Tencent Warns Against Paid Internship and Internal Referral Scams

TapTechNews June 5th news, every recruitment season due to the eagerness to find a job, we will see some students being cheated because of trusting others, and these students not only fail to get the desired offer in the end, but also waste a lot of time and money.

Regarding the issue of 2024 intern recruitment, Tencent today released a 'Reminder on Paid Internal Referral, Paid Internship and Other Scams' to remind job seekers who hope to enter Tencent to avoid scams and seek jobs rationally. TapTechNews also hopes that all buddies must keep their eyes open when looking for a job.

Tencent stated that in recent years, it has continuously found that there are illegal job-hunting agencies/job-hunting public accounts/individuals posting relevant information about 'paid internship', claiming that as long as you pay the 'brokerage fee', you can have an internship experience, but in fact, these positions are all false positions, and the so-called internship certificates obtained by students are also false certificates, and even the seals stamped on the certificates are forged.

Tencent emphasized that all internship positions of Tencent do not have a situation of charging fees, and strictly prohibit such behaviors. All positions that require 【payment】 to intern are false positions and belong to fraud information.

In addition, many students hope to get the help of senior schoolmates when looking for a job, so they will look for a 'Bole' in the company as a channel for resume delivery.

This kind of demand in job hunting is exploited by some job-hunting agencies/public accounts/individuals, promoting paid internal referral or asking students to complete the specified tasks to be internal referred, and promising that 【internal referral】 can obtain an advantage in the process or there are special people who can promote the process, using 【internal referral】 as an illegal tool for profiteering, but in fact students do not get any help at all.

Regarding such 'internal referral' scams, Tencent said, 'In Tencent, internal referral is just a way of resume delivery, not a stage or a necessary process. Whether to internal referral or not does not affect any process in any link.'

Tencent also emphasized that the behavior of Tencent employees using internal referral to charge fees violates the 'Tencent Sunshine Code of Conduct', and if everyone encounters the situation of charging fees by using the Bole code during the job-hunting process, they can report to the Tencent Anti-Corruption Investigation Department.