Stay away from companies who offer to commit fraud on your behalf for a fee!
If there was a “Bottom Feeder of the Year” award for an employment aid service, CareerExcuse.com would win it without breaking a sweat. This website takes advantage of desperate individuals looking to improve their chances of landing a job in today’s difficult job market by offering fabricated employment history and personal references for placement on a job application.
CareerExcuse.com allows an individual to choose from three plans (i.e. three degrees of deceit). Each plan incorporates a system utilizing phony addresses, fictitious companies and corporations, phone numbers, email addresses and even operators posing as HR representatives. The fake references are then placed on a resume or job application with the intended effect of appearing as real former employers.
After paying an introductory fee, individuals (who are foolish enough to utilize this service) then have to pay a monthly subscription fee of $30.00 to ensure the lies they have purchased are perpetuated in order to foil any follow-up attempts by a hiring manager or HR generalist. Basically you buy one big lie and then have to pay money month after month to make sure the lie remains propped up. It’s like having a cell phone bill FOREVER. This is definitely not the way to lay the foundation for a successful career at a new company If this mentality governed how we constructed buildings you would find bags of marshmallows propping up skyscrapers across the nation.
The Career Excuse website reminds one of a late night infomercial touting the genius of an exciting new product that aims to replace the inconvenience of traditional methods of cooking and cleaning. You get quick fixes, lots of promises and hollow assurance.
Poke around their website some more and you’ll find blogs, web links and information all geared towards lying your way to the top You can find a fake resume guide, fake landlord references, & fake letters of recommendation. Need a college degree quick? No problem. They have a blog offering advice for faking a college education. Probably the most shocking is that they even have a fake funeral excuse available, so you can get time off when calling in sick just won’t cut it.
But even with multiple layers of lies in place, no system like this will ever hold up 100% in the face of human error, a dedicated HR generalist or the nature of life itself.
What if an operator at CareerExcuse.com accidently communicated information to an HR representative which ran contradictory to the bogus information provided on an employment application? What if a hiring manager decided to dig a little deeper into the history of “Company X” only to find it’s never existed? Life is surprising in the ways it can reveal the truth about someone. I have personally witnessed supposedly “iron clad” lies shattered on account of one errant text message or a chance encounter in a public place.
Want to know what happens if you purchase something on this site and get caught? CareerExcuse.com attempts to answer that question in one of their blogs, “That is the most common question we receive when people inquire about outsourcing their job references with us.” However, there is absolutely no mention of what happens when their supposedly foolproof system comes crashing down like a house of cards and gets you fired. All they mention is a repetition of how the services work by setting up a phony network of references and employment history for you.
They don’t mention of a refund, what to expect in terms of legal ramifications for lying, or if the company will have your back if you end up getting sued and put in jail for breach of trust. How about the operators that were standing by to take your call? We placed multiple calls to CareerExcuse.com and only received a digitized voicemail message. Hardly the lifeline I’d want if an employer caught me lying on my application and I needed the help of CareerExcuse.com to help get out of a jam.
CareerExcuse.com states on their website that “The greatest risk is when you use a former employer as a reference and then cross your fingers they won’t call.” One must beg to differ. The greatest risk you will encounter is lying on an application in the first place. There are countless stories of people who, during hard economic times, who have lied on their job applications and found themselves straining from the pressure of meeting their career obligations, but laboring to keep up a false front at the same time.
If you really want an edge in the hiring process, there are honest and legal alternatives that can help you such as IAmScreened.com.
IAmScreened.com is an innovative web service that allows job applicants to perform a detailed background check on themselves prior to submitting to an official check by the company they are applying to.
Three service level plans allow you to choose the degree of detail you feel is necessary. Verification specialists will check to see what turns up on your criminal history, confirm past dates of employment and see what former employers have to say about you. You can prepare for your application ahead of time, avoid hiring delays, get more job offers, and give yourself a clean and honest edge over the competition.
In today’s competitive job market, lying may seem like an attractive way to “market” yourself, but it’s not worth the headache. By pursuing options such as a personalized IAmScreened.com pre-employment background check, you’ll acquire the hiring advantage you need and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve done the right thing.
i lokked it over and it’s not a very professional site. You’d have to be either very ignorant or very desperate to utilize a service like this. However, a site like this indicative of a rising tide of people willing to lie to get ahead in what they percieve as a time of daunting employment opportunity. After all, there has to be some sizable market segment for someone to feel that running a trashy site like this can turn a profit
Wow… I must give them high marks for ingenuity, but the fact that other people are getting overlooked who deserve positions because someone shelled out cash for this sort of “dis”service is appalling. Down even further goes the job market if we allow cheaters to the head of the pack.
How can these people sleep at night? It is crazy who low people will go to hide and deceive others. Just be honest people! Many people who have had problems in the past or but they have gotten jobs. You need to be honest with others and yourself.
If you want to be proactive, a better strategy is just to run a background check on yourself and find out exactly what your employer will see. That way, you can be sure to be honest without revealing things that they’ll never need to hear about anyway!
Would someone please tell me how the heck this isn’t illegal? Couldn’t the owner of the website be prosecuted for fraud? Or would that charge be for the people stupid enough to purchase this product?!
Shame on you CareerExcuse.com!!! I can’t believe there are companies out there doing this. What is this world coming too?
I’ll bet this place is run out of a one bedroom apartment somewhere. I’ll hand it to them for being creative anyway. You just can’t trust anyone these days.
I can’t believe this site has not been shut down! How embarrassing when the employer you applied for finds out it’s a fake. What do you say? Yikes! I rather be honest and not deal with the embarrassing repercussions.