Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud

Whether with Centene or another company, we want you and your information to remain safe and secure in your job search process. In today's job market, hiring related scams are a growing concern. In these scams, also known as recruitment fraud, bad actors use deceptive practices and pose as employers to exploit job seekers for personal information or money.

It's important to be aware of what to look out for to protect yourself. This page provides some of the knowledge and tools to identify and avoid fraudulent job offers, ensuring that you and your information remain safe.

In our hiring process we would: 

• Require applications to be submitted through this website and our application tracking system, Workday.
• Email you from a centene.com email address or careeralerts.centene.com.
• Typically have more than one interview, the first often being a phone screen with a Centene Talent Advisor.
• Use Microsoft Teams or Zoom for video interviews.

In our hiring process we would not:

• Use messaging applications like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, or other private messaging applications.

• Contact you with a non-Centene email address such as @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @outlook.com, etc. claiming to be a Centene recruiter. Please be aware that scammers can also create email addresses appearing to be Centene including @centene-jobs.com, @centene-hr.com, or @centenehealth.info.

• Ask you for any form of payment, bank account numbers, social security number, or other private information as part of the interview process.

• Ask you to purchase equipment or gift cards.
  Request you to interview with someone whose role at Centene does not align with the position being discussed. For example, if you are applying for a non-executive role, it is unlikely that you will be interviewing with the CEO or c-suite executive.

Trust your gut

Overall, it's most important to trust yourself and your intuition. If there is anything that makes you take pause, it may be time to do a bit more research or reach out to confirm the person is accurately representing themselves. If a job seems too good to be true, it probably is. Scammers will often present a job opportunity with a too-good-to-be-true salary for only a few hours a week. If you see a salary 100 times the industry standard with little to no skill requirement, it may be fraudulent.

If you think you've experienced recruitment fraud:

• Do not click on a job ad or reply to a message showing any of the above signs.
• Stop replying if you've already been in contact with someone who seems suspicious.
• Report any suspected scams to us at Report_Fraud@Centene.com. Please provide as much information as you can, including their name and contact information, including their email address headers, social media links, any messages or attachments from the scammer, or the job posting.
• If you were contacted on social media by a potential scammer, report the user to the platform where the engagement happened and then provide all relevant information to Report_Fraud@Centene.com.