CAREER SERVICE REVIEWS

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From what we've seen, much of the career services industry is based on hype designed to part you from your money in return for traditional advice and maybe vague technical or mechanical assistance.  For some this may indeed help.  For others, however, no matter how good your job skills are, you may always be relatively poor at networking and promoting yourself, and/or you may lack the time, interest and desire to develop those skills to a level adequate to effectively apply them in a job search.  If you are in the latter category, your prospects for finding a new position will, based on the approach of most career services, depend on your success in doing that which you are admittedly worst at.  Your success will be doomed in that model.  That doesn't make sense to us and it is a function of job-seekers being willing to accept the con that the provider can't guarantee anything.

If you are looking for a new position you may be feeling a bit depressed, or even desperate, willing to do almost anything to make the move you desire.  This, of course, is like painting a big bull's eye on your forehead.  Purveyors of career services understand your feelings and play to them.  There is a LOT of HYPE about the market and the opportunities, their past successes, how wonderful you are, how easy it will be for you to make a move, etc., etc., all playing to your fears, hopes and dreams.  Your job in evaluating their offering is primarily to identify two things: (1) what are they going to DO for you; and (2) what promises (guarantees) are they willing to make.