I went to see Career Solutions after they contacted me via email in the spring of 2012. When you go in to speak with them they will tell you that, while they may not have any particular job for you at the moment, they will use their extensive contacts in the business world to help you gain access to the decision makers in companies. They didnt just tell me this the first time but repeated it when they asked me to bring my wife in the second time. While they did do a little profiling to help determine what industry you may want to look in to and some updating of the resume they did very little else for the $3500 I paid them. They had we come in week after week going over a few power point slides that stated fairly obvious facts. When they finally provided me with a list of leads it was just names they had pulled off LinkedIn. They gave me a generic marketing letter which I was instructed to mail to the people on the list I was given. After that I was to call these people and try to set up a meeting. It became obvious quickly that I was doing no more than cold calling these people and that none of them were familiar with Career Solutions.
Save yourself the money. You could get you resume professionally done for a couple hundred dollars and then look up people in your industry on LinkedIn for free. If I had not been told repeatedly that they would leverage their industry contacts (which I found out were non-existent for the Financial industry in Atlanta) to help me find a job I would never had paid as much as I did.
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