Job Finders, Int'l, located in Irvine, CA, claims that for a modest fee ($4,500 -?), they will provide you with all the tools to find you the job you're searching for.in addition, they claim they have contacts throughout the business world, which they will lead in your direction. They propose a one-day "seminar" to meet with a consultant, who will train you on all aspects of the job hunt. They further claim that 80% of their candidates get remibursement of the fee through sign on bonuses.
All this is pure fabrication.
In actuality, for that outragious fee, they provide you with a canned resume (which, by the way, I have been told on more than one occassion, was a big negative.in fact, out of the 100-200 resumes I sent out, I received 1 interview. After I personally revised my resume, I received 3 interview requests out of the next 10 resumes I sent out). They put your name on 300 resume sites (called an internet blast which you can purchase without Job Finders for only $49.99), and provide a phone number to take calls for you (which I used twice, equal to the number of call backs I received from the methods above). They also, do mass mailings of your resume. They provide a listing of all the companies in a particular area (99.9% of which are not hiring) and provide you with the envelopes and copies of the resume, you provide the stamps and the labor of folding your resume into the envelope and mailing them out. This serves to flood employers with your resume, which if you've spoken to the experts, is terrible for job hunting.
I've called them and sent them e-mails on numerous occassions requesting further help from which I either received defensive outbursts or no reply at all.
In the end, I found my ideal position on Monster.com a free service not even recommended by the Company.
Net result-$4,500 for 150 envelopes and copies of my resume and a resume blast. Their time with me was equal to my lost time from my consulting business.
Big ripoff - stay away. Go to a recruiter who collects their fees from their clients, not you. Job finders, int'l makes a great sales presentation. They work off your fears, but they do not deliver.
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