Career Agents Network Sucks Blog

I’ve heard from numerous CAN members that they have been receiving their notification of payment due for the “Platinum” services as part of their agreement.  This comes on the heels of their one year anniversary with this marvelously beneficial relationship (please note this as a sarcastic comment).  You get all of the top-notch? world-class? exclusive? benefits only available to “Platinum” members.  One of these benefits includes TELEPHONE SUPPORT!  Wow!  Imagine that!  You get useless information in a live format!  And what’s more, you can, as a “Platinum” member even get the same banal, oatmeal-like, useless information via LIVE CHAT!

All this for the low, low price of only $499.  What’s even better is that if you were one of the very few that ACTUALLY MADE A SPLIT PLACEMENT it is reduced to a mere pittance of $299.  If you were one of the very, very, very few that made TWO split placements, the cost is reduced to ZERO! 

Doesn’t this strike you as blatantly ass-backward?  Consider this:

1. The people that obviously need the most help, the most training, the most support, and most “tools” are those that after a year haven’t made squat with their program or business model.  Those are the people that should receive those advantages for ZERO COST, not additional cost!

2. The very very few people that have made split placements (despite the flawed business model) should recognize the value (if any) and be willing to GLADLY pay additional monies to maintain that level of service. 

People pay for results, not vapid promises.  This organization walks the tightrope as to not even make any promises since they know they are a miserable failure at delivering results.

Labor Day is traditionally considered to be the end of Summer and the beginning of Fall.  The time when children go back to school, farmers are working toward the completion of their harvest, and a day dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. 

It is through the enterprise of American workers that this nation has been built into an economic powerhouse and the bastion of a market driven economy.  Along with those that pursue a business dream there are also the hyenas that continuously develop scams and ploys to rip people off and unscrupulously take their money.  Although the government feebly attempts to safeguard its citizens from the parasites that prey upon those that work hard, save, and invest in themselves; there are always those that feel that scamming people is better than actually working to earn their money.

Using loophole words like “business opportunity”; these charlatans and snake-oil purveyors manipulate the English language to make something sound far better than it actually is.

One of the basic freedoms we enjoy in the United States is that these scoundrels and scammers can be called out and exposed for the sham and scam they represent.   Thank you to American Labor for providing the engine that drives our economy, provides the tools by which our freedoms are defended, and develops true business pursuits rather than leeching off others.

There was an interesting post in the “NEWS” section today on the CAN site touting the addition of seven more “verticals” available.  These would include: banking, construction, food and beverage, government, insurance, information technology and legal.  That would mean that these additions are now being rolled out almost two years after they made their corporate statement that they were already involved in many of these “verticals”.  As a matter of fact Charlotte Byndas, the Chief Operating Officer of this less than a half dozen employee company stated in her sworn statements that:  ”CAN has member offices specializing in placing top-notch candidates in industries such as medical, health care, IT, healthcare IT, Internet, alternative energy, heavy construction, corporate turnaround, and credit collections”.  So, more lies from the CAN propaganda machine that these are “new” verticals.  I’d suspect they will be “new” again when they try to roll them out in their next company incarnation. 

More about their 2011 “plan” in a future post. 

Remember that the word vertical denotes a straight line up and down.  You can rest assured that just as an elevator follows a vertical path, investing in this business opportunity will probably lead you to the basement of failure, financial loss, and wasted time.

A MILLION dollars in split placement job opportunities!

WOW!  Sounds like a fortune doesn’t it?  Either they have really poor participation or a very bad ability to perform simple math.  They frequently state that the placement fees received go as high as 30, even 40-thousand dollars.  At 40 thousand dollars that would mean there are 25 split placement jobs available on their new and improved database.  It must also mean that the one member that had represented more than 50% of all split placement opportunities last year is not posting them anymore.

Again, and I’ve said it many times before, investing in the Career Agents Network business opportunity model is a waste of money and a scam (using their own word).