Bernard Haldine Associates Promised to promote me in the job market as well as train me in the art of interviews and salary negotiation. abused & mistreated screwed so many others too false promises Dallas Texas
After losing my job to corporate downsizing, I responded to the ad for Haldane in the paper. After being out of the ranks of the unemployed for so long, I thought it best that I approach a professional service.
I first met with a Senior Vice-President of Customer Services. After the preliminary testing to determine if I had the qualifications to satisfy their cliental, I was told how they would work with me and train me in promoting myself to prospective employers and successfully increase my salary with new negotiation skills.
I met with him again the next day, this time with my wife. After he spoke about communicating my situation to everyone that we knew. We emphasized that we had a few close friends, but didn't belong to clubs or social circles. That was not going to be a problem, that they would show me how to market myself. (Little did I realize that what that would involve is for me so send letters to management members of any and all companies with the hopes of getting some form of positive response from them. Either they had an opening or they knew of one somewhere else. Essentially I was spaming via snail mail.)
My wife and I fell for the pitch and signed on. I received a brown binder, a 2 page resume (that gave men zero response), and a computer disc with a mass of generic solicitation letters.... to be use in my efforts to get one of those busy managers to stop running their business long enough to talk to me. Just so you know, I talked to about 10% of the letter responses. Zero would see me.
Each time I approached my councilor, Robin Upton, she responded by saying that I needed to keep sending letters. She even sent me a plan of action that said just that.
After 4 months of this I request a meeting them. I made clear that wasn't happy with the response I was getting for my efforts and that if I didn't get something soon, I was going to have to start selling cars. Robins' professional response was that it would be a good move to sell cars in that I could meet prospective employers on the car lot. Yea right! It was then I realized that I had just blown 50% of my severance on this scam.
If anybody out there has had any success in recovering any of their money, I sure would appreciate it if you could share the details with me. For the rest of you looking for a job, you can do better by utilizing the state employment agencies, you'll probably do just as good, if not better, with the services they provide. AND IT'S FREE!!
Mark
Rowlett, Texas
CLICK HERE, You must read this!! ..Financial Post Article LINK - Haldane not up to the job ..exposing this company for what it really is - a huge scam
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Edward
Wilbraham,Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS WHAT IS KILLING YOUR CHANCES
#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Tue, August 10, 2004
I just got my story published in the Springfield, MA Sunday Republican Newspaper. It is dated Sunday August 8,2004 under Joyce Lain Kennedy's column.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION had KILLED almost any chance of a white male from getting a respectable job for who knows how long. In my case the manager wanted me but Human Resources would not allow it since there was a female candidate. She was not qualified and they were afraid of a law suit if I got hired and she didn't. Consequently neither of us got hired. I know this to be fact because the manager called me and told me what happened at risk of his own job. Companies are being told that they are to hire women and minorities especially in better positions; Disabled too and disabled are to be given special treatment beyond the others. There is a formula that they must go by. They may be subject to audit at any time. If they can't find qualified candidates then they are obligated to take whom ever and train them to be the manager or other.
I just learned today that if you fail to report your sex, race, etc...Human Resources is to take a look at you and write down their observations. I learned that from ROGERS CORPORATION. I questioned them on this practice and they brought to my attention the FEDERAL REGISTER DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF FEDERAL CONTRACT COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS. 41 CFR Parts 60-1 and 60-2 Government Contractors, Affirmative Action Requirements; Final Rule
Companies such as Haldane and RL Stevens have little control over this. They know all about it but are often afraid to speak about it. Also, if they know that you will have a next to impossible time finding work it is certainly not to their advantage to tell you.
It is not HALDANE. It is our Federal and state governments but mostly Federal. And it is only going to get worse. I have lost several positions to females. My last job was a temp position. There was another temp. She is female and was much less experienced at the time. I was set up to fail and she was treated with kid gloves. It was embarassing how the company treated me in order to justify keeping her when push came to shove. We live in a moral-less society. The million man march made its mark, this country is divided into factions...the internet has given these factions teeth and there is only one way to fight back. The Constitution of the United States has been made moot. Anything beyond what we are doing here could be considered Unamerican Activities. God bless you all. I feel your pain for it is my own.