Blogger Slams CareerExcuse.com
Blogger “I Love My Job” wrote a scathing blog about the job reference service careerexcuse.com provides to its customers.
She starts off by saying…
“I went to their website and was absolutely horrified at what I saw. They are serious. I don’t know when I have seen something as irresponsible and wrong.”
My God, you would think CareerExcuse.com was a online abortion clinic. Are we to somehow believe that modifying your resume to get a job is as “horrifying, irresponsible and wrong” as an abortion? Which the last time I checked, both was legal.
The blogger then goes on to say..
“In every company I know lying on your resume is IMMEDIATE grounds for dismissal.”
So is getting sick and missing work during your probationary period, not following company instructions, and a hundred different reasons. Every new employee has at least a 90 day probation period where you can be fired for just about anything.
Finally, the blogger rages on how…
“Let’s look at this predatory business model: encourage people to lie on their resumes, which will get them dismissed without references… help them fake references to get the next job, which they are likely to get fired from for lying…”
Fact is. We open doors for job seekers who sometimes just need a second chance. Many people make mistakes in their life, especially when going through a difficult divorce, illness, or other unforeseen events in their life.
Today’s job market is cut throat, and if you are in your final weeks of collecting unemployment benefits and are not even close to landing a job, drastic measures must be taken or you and your family can be out on the streets. And if that ever happens to a job seeker with poor job references, I’m sure the blogger who took the time to slam CareerExcuse.com will be first to open her wallet for you…NOT!
I’ve never been in a situation where I felt the need to lie about anything in my career, but I can certainly see why the need has arisen.
I just posted this reply on “I Love My Job”‘s blog… I doubt she’ll have the guts to approve it.
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@naniprints – It’s too much — HR types are scandalized by FRAUD!?!
Say it ain’t so!
For years, management and Congress has been pushing these ‘best-and-brightest’ H1B kids to the front of the line because they’d rather pay $30k instead of $90k-100k to fill a development position! Such Fraud, OH NO!
“Titans of Industry” routinely tell Congress that we have to have an ‘infinite’ number of foreign workers because you can’t find qualified Americans (isn’t that your job?), when there are millions of experienced, but unemployed people out there. Such Fraud, OH NO!
Then when we bring this up, you pull out the race card. Now who’s being racist: honest people trying to feed their families, or American management who is LAUGHING all the way to the bank, exploiting the H1B visa holders? Such Fraud, OH NO!
It’s bad enough when HR blogs are full of top-ten lists of annoying things interviewees do when they’re nervous. You’d be too, or has it been too long since you’ve been through the wringer?
You lot have not a leg to stand on when it comes to FRAUD!
I’m not a fan of lying…but when you are fired, your supervisor’s word is accepted as truth, no matter how dishonest he or she is. I was almost fired because a power-hungry harpie in my office wanted to steal my job and made all sorts of false and exaggerated accusations. They went into my file – but what recourse do I have? In a way, this gives some power to the working guy and not the supervisor.