Career Experts reviews and complaints

They contacted me about updating my resume. Emailed me a few times to make offer more convincing. When I requested to see copy of resume, is when communication stopped. I now realize that it was a scam.

I recieved an e-mail about a job posting that i applied for (craiglist) and got a reply from a company called Career Experts.

I have about 10 e-mails going back and forth saying that they were interested in helping me find an awesome fulltime job with benefits.

I asked "sister mary joseph" about the 90 day payment plan that she mentioned to me and confirmed that it was possible then after a few e-mails back and forth she said that she needed to see my payment.

After I did a bit more research on the site she gave me (careersexperts.org) and researching scam employment agencies i realized it was a scam.

I wrote back sister mary joseph and asked her to send me a proof of my resume and she sent my an example of the site which i told her was unacceptable. she claimed that people looking for jobs scam them every day so they do business by recieving the payment then they will send me my resume to me.

I wrote back by explaining that it was funny they mentioned getting scamed when there company is a scam all together, and they I would not be paying them for anything.

The e-mail response I got was " I have a lot of personal information on you. Today you scammed me. I can make problems for you if I want so shut the ### up."

Nice Sister Mary Joseph!

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM!

I received an email telling me she was going to help me look for a job... I then looked on google and found loads of complaints about Sister Mary Joseph and Harris Black...

The following is the email I got... Its the same one everyone else gets.

Dear Angela Caldwell

Hello, how are you? Your resume was sent to us by one of our clients and we would like an opportunity to follow-up with you. Are you ready for a career change? Are you free for live or phone interviews this week? My name is Sister Mary Joseph and I am the CEO of Career Experts (helping people find top level careers in the "hidden job market" since 1995). I am very impressed with your previous experience. I can also tell from your experiences that you are very good at working with the public, a "people person, " which is exactly what we are looking for.

Since we will be working together on your job search, I would like you to know who Career Experts is and how we operate. Career Experts is a 15 year-old recruiting company that has been hired by many large firms. These firms are only interested in hiring the best candidates at top industry salaries (usually $50, 000 or more). We are paid a commission when staff positions are filled. Our commissions DO NOT come from your salary. There is no charge to you for Career Experts to find you a job. As I am your agent please feel free to ask me any questions that will help you to feel more confident and comfortable prior to your interviews.

What is your current availability? Would you prefer mornings, afternoons, or evenings/weekends? Can any phone interviews be arranged for you and would any as early as tomorrow be possible?

Career Experts will setup the interviews for you and prepare you with full job descriptions and company information but it is your responsibility to show up for the interviews and get the job. We have a 95% successful placement rate within the first week. I have companies that will want to meet or speak with you this week if you are available. I will confirm the interview times once I have your schedule. Please look at the following list of jobs and let me know which offers interest you by number:

The full time permanent positions with benefits I have for you in your area-
1) Sheraton Hotel & Ritz Carlton Hotels: Administrative Assistant $55, 000 or more.
2) Pediatrician Office Manager at Children’s Hospital $55, 000.
3) Airport: Administrative Assistant responsible for customer service $52, 000 or more.
4) Law office: Administrative Assistant $55, 000.
5) Administrator at a Plastic Surgery Clinic $52, 500.
6) Psychology Office Manager. Excellent benefits $52, 000+.
7) Chiropractor Office Manager. $54, 000 + benefits.
8) University Admissions Office Administrator. $55, 000.
9) Bank – Customer Service (2). $47, 000.
10) Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgeon – Office Manager. $52, 000.
11) Administrative Assistant – Elevator Company. $55, 500.
12) Hospital Admissions Department – Administrative Assistant. $57, 000.
13) Law Office: 2 Administrative Assistants $22 per hour (negotiable).
14) Optometrist Office: Office Manager – $52, 500.
15) Full-Time Administrative Assistant / Office Music Producer. Salary $52, 500 annually + benefits.
16) Administrative Assistant. Exxon Mobil. $55, 000 + health benefits.
17) Public Relations/Customer Service. Google. $57, 000 + health benefits.
18) Accounting Clerk. Pediatrician. $57, 800 (Interviews this week!)
19) Administrative Assistant for Asian Export Company. $58, 000 + benefits. (Interviews this week!).
20) Maternity Ward Administrative Assistant. General Hospital. $55, 000. Training Provided.
21) Administrative Assistant/Office Manager Ice Cream Company. $57, 500. Interviews this week with 2 weeks paid training.
22) Mail Room Manager at Law Firm. $47, 000-$57, 000.

I have asked your prospective employers to wait an additional day or so. This will allow me to get back to them with your availability for the first round of interviews whether they be live or by telephone.

It is safe to say we are on the same page in wanting you to get the interview and get hired this week. I look forward to helping you manage your career and job search. I have many clients hired on a daily basis. I am recommending we work together so that you are not rejected in favor of someone else and each application has a positive effect. Thank you and congratulations on your new career. God Bless You.

Sincerely,

Sister Mary Joseph
www.careerexperts.org

Received this e-mail today:

Job offer:

Hello. How are you? Instead of paying us for a resume, I think this may interest you and we want someone of your caliber on our team. We pay $20-$25/hour plus good health benefits. With the way the economy is now, it's best to have a steady & guaranteed income.

I need some help replying to all my emails. You may work from home. Payment details are described below. I will also create a free resume for you while you are working for me. I will send this resume to my contacts who will contact you for an interview or you have the option of working full time with me.

I am a recruiter serving companies all over North America and as a result, I receive over 1000 resumes by email each day from prospective candidates for the jobs I need to fill. I need some help replying to all my emails. They all ask the same questions so I have prepared a pre-written answer sheet that you send them (copy/paste). We offer the candidates a resume revision service that they order directly from our website. We are a very popular and busy service so there is no way to keep up with the demand that is why we pay so well. Not only do we pay well but also you can feel good about your work knowing we are helping so many people and making so many unemployed people happy.

Please let me know if you can do this. There is no fee or payment from you whatsoever! You work with us. We pay you.

The position is to reply to all the incoming inquiring emails.

Please carefully study the four (4) Word files that you must download from the link below. If you cannot open the link, try pasting it into your web browser:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/8481077/ed8a0932/sharing.html

Read the 4 files first before asking me 20 questions. The link includes an easy to follow guide, which answers all the frequently asked questions about the job duties and our company. You are joining a team of 155 agents from around the world who have been with us since 1995. I have made the guide such that you could read the guide and start working immediately. The most common question for any new job is about your salary which is $20USD/hour x 40 hours/week payable every second Friday by Western Union or Certified Cheque to your home or PAYPAL. Tax forms will be mailed to you. We do not require a work sheet; we pay you either 20 or 40 hours per week every second Friday. I need to know your full name and address with the # of hours you can work each week and your preferred Western Union office's full address or PAYPAL address. Once payment is made, you will receive your authorization #/pickup # to obtain your pay. Every 2nd week, we give out a $1000USD cash prize to the employee who has responded to the most emails. We have a method for calculation. We are also now offering an incentive program such that after 8 weeks of us working together, you get an automatic raise to $25USD/hour. I am excited to work with you. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. This will be my last correspondence with you if you do not reply to this terrific offer. If you aren't interested, do not reply. If you are interested, you may start right now.

Thank you and looking forward to a prosperous relationship with you.

Sincerely,

Sister Mary Joseph

www.careerexperts.org

http://www.4shared.com/dir/8481077/ed8a0932/sharing.html

Sample letter to me:

My name is _________. I want to work ____ hours per week. My work email is careerexperts@yahoo.com (for example) and my password is sistermary (for example). Please pay me by cheque/Western Union. My home address is _________. The Western Union address is ________________.

Sincerely,

Your Name.

Thank you for helping people like me to avoid these scams. I got that same email letter from "Sister Mary Joseph" yesterday and it looked almost legitimate. Thankfully, my gut told me to google her name and sure enough, as I suspected it was a scam. So thank you very much.
Keep up the great work and take care.
Regards.

I have been job hunting since I was layed -ff the first of July 2009. I thought the email from career experts was a real God send! How can anyone take advantage of the millions of people out of work about to lose everything they have worked so hard for?!? You people disgust me and there should be a special hell for you in your own personal eternity!

I just recieved the same email. I will not respond thanks to your information. Thanks!

I got the same e-mail a few minutes ago from a job I responded to on Craigslist for an elevator company administrative assistant. I have responded back saying that I didn't need a resumé rewrite and am currently awaiting a response back.

This person sent me the exact same email. Any legitimate recruitment agency does not ask for any money up front. This person is taking advantage of people at their lowest, they suck!

I also emailed back saying I did not need anyone to write my resume for me. That my resume was already wonderful. I received an email from the con man (Sister Mary Joseph) offering me a job at $20.00 an hour. The scarey part about it is that I actually thought about it until I went to google and types in "Sister Mary Joseph Career Experts" and all hell broke loose. Thank you all for the heads up. Some of us do desperate things when we are unemployed and stressed.

Lori

Guess what, I also just received the exact same email. She or he is now using the email of Career Experts

Same exact thing happened to me yesterday! I took it a step further and emailed back saying that I was not in a financial position to spend money on having them redo my resume (that I already had a business professional help me with). "Sister Mary Joseph" sent me an email back, at that time, offering me a job making $20 an hour to go through the 500 to 1000 emails I would receive each day and send out the standard first email she sends out. I have all the documents that they send out; she sent them to me to read through. Once I read through them and saw how they post things on Craigs list etc, I knew right away it was ###. The sad thing is that I have been job searching for 2 months and have mailed my resume out to well over 400 job postings...never knowing if they are legitmate or not. It's a shame you even have to question it :(

This is nothing but a scam to get you to their web site so you can pay them to rewrite your resume and its not cheap.
They send you an email which is a standard letter they send to everyone, signed by someone named Sister Mary Joseph.
They detail it to make you think they are going to set you up with these companies that pay really well but all it comes down to is getting you to buy their services of resume writing, don't fall for it!
Betty

Hello Everyone. I just received the very same email that seems to be circulating. It sucks when we, as job seekers have to come across ### of the earth con-artists like this. The week before last I had one job offer that wanted my bank account number, I called the FBI and filed a report because it was a money laundering scam from Australia. People, the only way we can help stop these bottom feeders is to file a report with your local FBI office, you can call the local agency directly and speak to a "Duty Agent", or go to the FBI website and file the report on the spot. Also, email the person who sent it to you to let them know that's what your doing, my Duty Agent suggested that. Besides, who ever heard of a freaking nun being the CEO of a Recruiting Agency? The name on my letter was Beth Feldman. All of them should roast in hell. Good Luck to all!

I just received the same email with very few negligible changes from the original wording--even the positions were written verbatim. Thanks for wasting my time, career-experts.org!

RECEIVED ONE FROM SISTER MARY JOSEPH WITH A LITTLE DIFFERENT WORDING... SEE BELOW..YA KNOW IN SUCH A HARD TIME ITS A SHAME THESE IDIOTS GET AWAY WITH SCAMMING GOOD PEOPLE!

Hello, how are you? Your resume was forwarded to us by one of our clients so that we can formally touch base with you before we schedule you in for one or more of the 22 formal interviews we have taking place in the next two weeks.

Career Experts has been helping candidates find top level careers in the "hidden job market" since 1995. I am very impressed with your previous experience listed in your resume. I can also tell from your past experiences you are very good at working with the public, a "people person, " which is exactly what we are looking for.

Since we will be working together on your job search, I would like you to know who Career Experts is and how we operate.

Career Experts is a 15 year-old recruiting service that is in partnership with companies, large corporations and government agencies across the country.
Our partners are only interested in hiring the best candidates at top industry salaries which is usually $50, 000 and up.

Please note: We collect a commission payment from our clients when staff positions are filled. Our commissions DO NOT come from your salary. There is no charge to you for Career Experts to find you a job.

As I am your agent, please feel free to ask me any questions that will help you to feel more confident and comfortable prior to your interviews.

Career Experts will setup the interviews for you and prepare you with full job descriptions and company information, but it is your responsibility to show up for the interviews and obtain the job. We have a 95% successful placement rate within the first week.

I have companies that will want to meet or speak with you this week if you are available.

I will confirm the interview times with you once I have your schedule for the remainder of this week.

Please view the following job positions currently available and let me know which offers interest you by number:

The full time permanent positions with benefits I have for you in your area-

1) Sheraton Hotel & Ritz Carlton Hotels: Administrative Assistant $55, 000 or more.
2) Pediatrician Office Manager at Children’s Hospital $55, 000.
3) Airport: Administrative Assistant responsible for customer service $52, 000 or more.
4) Law office: Administrative Assistant $55, 000.
5) Administrator at a Plastic Surgery Clinic $52, 500.
6) Psychology Office Manager. Excellent benefits $52, 000+.
7) Chiropractor Office Manager. $54, 000 + benefits.
8) University Admissions Office Administrator. $55, 000.
9) Bank – Customer Service (2). $47, 000.
10) Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgeon – Office Manager. $52, 000.
11) Administrative Assistant – Elevator Company. $55, 500.
12) Hospital Admissions Department – Administrative Assistant. $57, 000.
13) Law Office: 2 Administrative Assistants $22 per hour (negotiable).
14) Optometrist Office: Office Manager – $52, 500.
15) Full-Time Administrative Assistant / Office Music Producer. Salary $52, 500 annually + benefits.
16) Administrative Assistant. Exxon Mobil. $55, 000 + health benefits.
17) Public Relations/Customer Service. Google. $57, 000 + health benefits.
18) Accounting Clerk. Pediatrician. $57, 800 (Interviews this week!)
19) Administrative Assistant for Asian Export Company. $58, 000 + benefits. (Interviews this week!).
20) Maternity Ward Administrative Assistant. General Hospital. $55, 000. Training Provided.
21) Administrative Assistant/Office Manager Ice Cream Company. $57, 500. Interviews this week with 2 weeks paid training.
22) Mail Room Manager at Law Firm. $47, 000-$57, 000.

I have asked your prospective employers to wait an additional day or so.

This will allow me to get back to them with your availability for the first round of interviews whether they be live or by telephone.

It is safe to say we are on the same page of getting you a few interviews this week so that you can begin training if needed.

I look forward to helping you manage your career and job search.

I have many clients hired on a daily basis. I am recommending we work together so that you are not rejected in favor of someone else and each application has a positive effect.

Please reply back indicating your availability times for this week and the positions that interests you by number.

Thank you and congratulations on your new career!

Sincerely,

Sister Mary Joseph

www.careerexperts.org

I got the SAME exact email as well, bunch of ###.

Its gotten so bad on craigs list that you can't even apply for work without getting 45 emails from scam artists. I got the exact same email from sister mary fake!

What jerks! I was suspicious immediately because of the high salary's that were offered. Every day some ### develops a new scam. SIGH...

I received the same email. How interesting that "Sister Mary Joseph" the "CEO" uses a Yahoo email address! It's kind of sad that Craig's List is so full of fruads and scam artists now.

I have just received an identical email, same job postings also from Sister Mary Joseph.

Yes, I too rec'd the same bulls__t email. What a hoax! Don't fall for it people!