Its a employment or staffing company that works for other companies in finding employees who apply to certain jobs online. They call you back to do a screening to see what your qualifications are. Don't know if they are real or not.
Got a mysterious call about having made an on-line application for employment. Since I am currently looking for a job, and possibly this was a follow-up to one of my applications, I called them back. I got: "All circuits are busy," and an instantaneous rapid busy signal. Sounds like a multi-level scam to me.
I received a call from some automated voice telling me the same thing about verification for a job application. Called back and got an automated voice telling me a That employment select has a verification specialist who would speak with me soon and to be near a computer w/ internet access. I goggled employment select and saw info about a scam.
This appears to be legit. I called back and the woman read off information from an application I recognized that I had completed with a job website, either career network or snagajob, can't remember off hand.
The only 'sales pitch' during the conversation was asking if I wanted information about continuing my education - obviously they have some sort of referral system for a school (or schools) as part of their business model. She wasn't obnoxious about it, and I said politely, "Not at this time." and she left it at that.
She then asked if the information she had read to me was accurate. I said it was. She asked if I was a US citizen, blah, blah, blah. When we were done she told me the hiring manager of the company in question would contact me directly if they wanted to go further with my application.
It might be a scam, but the only info they got from me they didn't already have from my application, was my phone's ability to recive text messages, so at this point I doubt it. If anything 'hinky' develops I'll update this post, but for now, I think it might be legit.