When you look up the phone number for HiringMAX.com the search results list the National Association of Automobile Sales Professionals in Fountain Valley. I wrote the report below before learning this but now it all makes sense. I wouldn't be surprise if HiringMax.com job fairs were nothing more than a recruitment front for auto dealerships. It would make the questions on the HiringMax.com forms make a lot more sense.
During visits to Tahoe, Reno and Las Vegas solicitors have approached me with offers for free dinners and show tickets. These promises are always made with the assurance that no purchase is necessary on my part. What is obfuscated is the fact that in order to collect on the free dinners and show tickets, I will have to sit through a 90 minute presentation during which someone will try to hard sell me into buying into a time share.
The experience I had with HiringMax.com on April 3 at the Embassy Suites in Inglewood, CA was WORSE than the time share pitch. While I'm in Vegas or Tahoe I'm already on vacation and my time is free. I had to take time off work to go to the HiringMax Job Fair at which my time was nearly completely wasted. HiringMax.com did not out and out LIE about the job fair but they sure did use obfuscation. Let me recount my experience.
It was recently revealed that my office will be shutting down as a result of a company acquisition. So I and four other co-workers got permission to take a longer lunch break, though we'd have to make that time up later, in order to go to the HiringMax job fair. One of the co-workers found information about the job fair on Monster.com. But NOT in Monster.com's regular Job Fair section. And that should have been my first clue right there. The Hiring Manager, Fred Omidvar, [email protected], listed the job fair as a job listing on Monster.com. It the Job Description he wrote the following:
My name is Fred Omidvar. I am the Hiring Manager for HiringMAX. (At HiringMAX we hire for more than 600 positions for over 200 companies (many from the fortune 500) ranging from Outside Sales, Inside Sales, Executive positions, Customer Service, HR, Clerical, Training, Retail, Transportation, Government and more. For a sample list of companies hiring please visit www.hiringmax.com. To learn more about hiringmax visit About Us.
I am currently hiring for the following positions:
- 2 Customer Service Positions - $43,000 annually with paid training
- 16 Customer Service positions - $22K to $38K annually. (No Experience Necessary)
- 9 Hospitality Positions: $25,000 to $52,000 per year (Experience is preferred)
- 3 Customer Service Manager Positions - (2 years of experience is necessary)
- 7 Administrative and Clerical positions - (No Experience is Necessary)
- 2 Customer Service positions - $46K annual pay. (No Experience Necessary)
- 15 Part time positions - From $8 to $15 per hour (No Experience Necessary)
- 2 Account Manager - $41,000 to $86,000 annually (1 yearof experience preferred)
- 5 Inside Sales positions - $32,000 to $126,000 annually (No Experience Necessary)
- 6 Outside Sales positions - $83,000 to $186,000 annual salary with paid expenses (2 years of Experience Necessary)
- 3 Sales Management Positions - Start in Sales and Advance into Sales Management within 60 days.
- 9 Management and Operations positions - Starting at $55,000 per year (Experience is preferred but not necessary)
- 1 Sales Engineer: (Experience with Electric Motors)
- 2 Financial Analysts - $22 per hour (Experience Preferred)
- 3 Banking positions - $60,000 annually (Commercial Banking Experience Necessary)
- 11 Business development positions - $48,000 annual salary plus commissions. (Sales Exp. Is preferred)
- 10 Appointment Setter positions - Up to $20 per hour (No Experience Necessary)
- 17 Office and Data entry positions - Starting at $11.50 per hour
- Financial Services - Paid Training - Salary plus commissions
- 2 Banking positions - Salary will be discussed at the interview. (Experience is not necessary)
- 3 Assistant Manager positions
- 10 Law Enforcement positions - Starting at $52,000 annually plus full benefits package
(Positions offer full benefits packages with insurance and 401 K. Some provide car allowance and advancement within the first 90 days.)
For an Interview, meet us at the next hiring event. (Below are the dates and times)
- You may walk in anytime from 9:15 to 1:45 P.M.
- Dress professionally and bring about 15 resumes.
- For a sample list of companies hiring please visit www.hiringmax.com.
Meet Face to Face with companies for an interview in one location. Meet with decision makers in one location. HiringMAX represent over 200 companies, many from the fortune 500. Not all companies represented by HiringMAX are present at every Career Fair. However, when you attend the fair, you will have the opportunity to apply for positions with other employers that may not be present. Register Online (Walk ins welcome) About Us
Meet At the Next Career Fair
Career Fair
Los Angeles
April 3
Location: Embassy Suites
Address: 1440 E. Imperial Ave, El Segundo, California 90245
Time: 9:15 - 2:00
Hotel Phone: 310-640-3600
Click here for directions
Register Here
Walk-ins welcome.
* With over 600 positions, not all companies represented by HiringMAX are present at every Career Fair. On this day you will meet with a Senior Job Specialist and have the opportunity to apply for many other open positions with employers that may not be present at the Fair.
Here is the link if you want to see for yourself. But I plan on reporting this misuse of Monster.com so if you hit this link it may no longer function:
http://jobview. Monster.com/GetJob. Aspx? JobID=70256420&JobTitle=2 Custome
Just as my first clue should have been the fact that Fred/HiringMax.com was misusing Monster.com by listing a job fair as a job listing, my second clue should have been the fact that on this listing the hiring companies were not named. So I went to the HiringMax.com website and the hiring companies were not named there either. My third clue was the fact that the HiringMax.com website emphasizes the fact that job seekers are not charged to come to job fairs and employers are not charged to come to job fairs.
At legitimate job fairs I've attended: A) Employers are charged a fee to set up a booth B) Employer names/Company names are listed on the website of the company hosting the job fair C) The company hosting the job fair encourages job seekers to come prepared by looking at the job descriptions in advance and using those descriptions to plot out exactly which Employers booths job seekers plan to visit while at the job fair (they call it doing your research and maximizing your time). The fact that employer information and job listing information is hidden by HiringMax.com should have told me something was up.
You see all those positions Fred lists? All those positions WERE NOT positions for which there were companies hiring at the job fair. Part of the reason was that there were only ten tables at the job fair and at three of those the companies hiring did not even show up.
I did not find this out until after I sat through a presentation that was over an hour long. It was called an orientation but it was nothing but a waste of time. Fred stated things that my group already knew about the differences in the way HR managers hire now as oppose to the way they hired ten years ago. I'd be surprised if there was anyone in the room who was not aware of the differences he mentioned. Fred talked about attitude and what a difference it makes when one is presenting oneself to a potential employer. Uhm, no duh. Fred kept emphasizing how HiringMax.com does not charge job seekers or employers. Well there has got to be a charge somewhere because HiringMax.com is not listing itself as a charity organization. Then I took a look at the paperwork job seekers were asked to fill out before the orientation. The questions included basic information but also these questions.
Sales Experience: Please circle number of years in Sales? There was not a request on the form for information on any other kinds of experience.
What is your ideal annual salary expectations: The grammatically correct question would have been What is your ideal annual salary expectation? The fact that the form wasn't proof checked did not speak well of HiringMax.com.
For the right company, would you start with commission Only? (the capital O was the form, not me). There were no other types of questions such as For the right company, would you consider relocating. The only question of this nature was the commission only question.
How important is company benefits (Insurance and Retirement)? The grammatically correct sentence would have been How important are company benefits?
Race? Any job related form I have filled out asking for my race classification came with disclaimer text that told me that this question was being asked for government compliance reasons and came with a choice that read something like Decline to state. This race question did neither.
I believe this form was nothing more than a lead generation form for HiringMax.com itself. They want to see if they can suck people into working commission only with no benefits for them in the job of fooling unwary job seekers into wasting their time (and money, but that comes later).
Fred went on to state that there were many, many more positions posted at HiringMax.com than jus the positions represented at the tables in the other room. He kept using the word tables because he'd be telling a lie if he said there were ten companies represented in the other room as every table was not occupied. He encouraged job seekers to follow the HiringMax.com process which is as follows:
Go to the website HiringMax.com
Register on the website.
Upload your resume.
Look for positions for which you'd like to apply.
Once you apply...
A HiringMAXJob Specialist will forward your resume AFTER YOU APPLY for a position on HiringMax.com. (For your resume to be forwarded, you must apply for a position. A Job Specialist is NOT trained to contact employers on your behalf.)
This quote was under What does a Job Specialist (JS) Do? Evidently a JSs job is to hit the FORWARD button in Outlook to send your resume to the HR department of the company that is actually hiring.
Fred told job seekers they didn't have to stop there. They could meet with a Senior Job Specialist (SJS). They could meet with one, for free, at a meeting in Costa Mesa at the University of Phoenix on Friday April 4. Under What does a Senior Job Specialist (SJS) Do? Was this quote...
A Hiring MAX (notice that now it is two words when in the above quote it was one word. What HiringMax.com needs to do is hire a Marketing Specialist to proof read their collateral) Senior Job Specialist is experienced to assist you (experienced to assist you sounds like a sentence written by a call center employee in New Delhi) in finding a job and will start a dialogue on your behalf with employers. His experience will help you win interviews with prospective employers. A Senior SJS (before it was just Senior Job Specialist, a.K.A. Sjs. Now it is Senior Senior Job Specialist) will: 1 - Help empower your resume (I didn't realize my resume felt helpless). 2 Coach you on interview skills. 3 Initiate a dialogue on your behalf with companies matching your profile.
The thing is, as Fred explains it, Senior Job Specialists don't just work with anybody. They only work with people whose resumes are written in a way that gets HR Managers to notice. There are five keys to getting a resume noticed by HR Managers. Only Fred did not tell during the orientation what those five keys are. That information is available to job seekers, FOR A FEE. I only know that information is available for a fee because in the other room I asked the gentleman standing at the HiringMax table if there was a cost for getting someone to help me make sure that my resume had the five keys.
At NO POINT DURING THE ORIENTATION did Fred mention that there were any fees whatsoever associated with any services HiringMax.com is offering. When I asked Fred if there was a fee associated with meeting with the SJS he told me no. But he failed to mention that if my resume did not have the five keys the SJS would charge me for the service of incorporating the five keys into my resume. The guy at the table stated that sometimes an SJS will look at a resume and it will indeed have the five keys and they will go ahead and work with that job seeker for no fee. I could not get him to tell me what percentage of job seekers who meet with an SJS end up having resumes that do not need the fee based service.
After all this the orientation still was not over. A speaker named Juan got up for what was suppose to be three minutes to talk about Springfield College, which has a satellite campus in Southern California. Juan was a terrible speaker. He speech was disjointed and full of digressions. He overused hand gestures. He did not articulate. He called a degree a piece of paper (isn't that exactly what representatives from academic institutions are NOT suppose to call a degree). There are reasonable and logical reasons for those transitioning in their career to consider continuing their education. Juan did not do a good job of explaining any of them. If he is representing Springfield College that institution either sucks or is being horribly underserved.
If you wish to take advantage of a HiringMax job fair here is what I would suggest. When you arrive, IGNORE the signs which clearly lead you to the registration table for the HiringMax job fair.instead, follow the people who are professionally dressed and who are holding resumes. They are walking to the other room where the actual companies (however few of them there are) are set up at tables. Go directly into that room and check out which companies are there and the positions for which they are hiring. Do not go into that orientation room. What goes on in there is a sham.
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