Can a Internet jobsearch site charge me if I give them my cellphone number?

If you give me the link to the site I’ll take a look for you and see what I can find.

If the terms and conditions you agree to say there will be a fee then they can and will charge you.

hey @tyrios, welcome to the site! Pending @poisonedantidote‘s answer I would say a cell phone is just the sign of the times that people are often out with a cell phone and use that more often than a landline-ie most people are most easily reached by their cellphone.

I would be careful about receiving jobwatch and opportunity texts on your work phone. While technically ethical…it starts approaching a line…this could lead to hard feelings by your employer if any information got out. Be careful.

On the website can you type n/a on the cell phone space? That might skirt you around it.

Welcome to Fluther.

I’m surprised to hear that a cell phone number is ‘required’, but I guess that’s a sign of their penetration, that everyone is more or less expected to have one now.

I agree with @jlelandg that I wouldn’t give out an employer-provided cell number. Can you list your home number in both places? That’s a pretty simple work-around if the two fields don’t check for duplication.

I don’t believe so. I would worry more about spam. Some of these “jobsearch” websites are shady as well. They try to charge you a fee (sometimes a sizable fee) to do your resume for you and by giving you jobsearching advice. They will allow you to upload your own resume on their websites but then they only allow your Works or Office resume that you made yourself to be uploaded or pasted in a crappy looking fine text format and then email you that your resume looks “unprofessional” so you should have them redo your resume. They will also tell you your resume looks bad even if done by another professional! They use many tactics to lure you in by telling you an x amount of “recruiters” want to see your resume. I would worry more about stuff like that. Alot of these job searching websites that claim they are “free” use many tactics to try to suck money out of you.