Complaint Review: CareerExcuse

CareerExcuse.com has a great idea.  If you do not have job references or simply don't want your references to know that you are looking, they provide (fake) references that will say positive things about your work.  They'll even make fake companies in your local area so that the references look legitimate.  At least, that's the promise.

I used CareerExcuse.com in the past when I was doing contracting and was bound by nondisclosure agreements.  I wasn't allowed to use my real references to find another role.  CareerExcuse.com worked great then.  HOWEVER, the company has changed.  Jennifer Shanahan is now running the show and simply cannot/will not deliver.

She was more than happy to take $225 from me, but never got the references going.  She blamed IT issues and then simply stopped responding.

There are other services that do the same thing that CareerExcuse does.  I would recommend using them instead.  By the time you have gotten to the references stage of a job interview, there is too much on the line to trust to a company that won't respond.