Archive for the ‘Scams’ Category

Popular job search and career scams

Posted on February 16th, 2010 by by carl

If you surf the Internet enough, you’ve undoubtedly run into numerous products and services making various claims regarding how they will improve your job search and career. In the old days before the Internet, these scams and crummy products and services would have been advertised in the newspapers but like the Nigerian email scam, the [...]

The worst career decision I’ve made

Posted on February 14th, 2010 by by carl

The worst career decision I made was about 10 years ago when I was in the process of starting to look for a new job, had convinced myself that I needed a career change, and was also convinced I didn’t know what to do next in my career and could use some professional help. This [...]

Bogus career colleges and other meaningless certifications

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by by carl

I just read an online newspaper article that referred to how the area I live in will start cracking down on fake career colleges that charge students thousands of dollars and then deliver phony and in some cases virtually non-existent educations. The article gave an instance where the newspaper who conducted the investigation had several [...]