I’m speechless.

Actually, all I have to say is “wow”…

My personal favorites are the ones where he tries to sell the overpriced resume service.

Those services are like the women behind the makeup counters at a department store selling to teenagers. They play off people’s insecurities at one of the most vulnerable times of their lives, hocking a service that may or may not make much of a difference in the end for an extravagant price.

Nate,

Selling to insecurities, yah that’s a big part of it. But what’s most embarrassing is all of Cenedella’s chatter about the summer, having a good life, going to the zoo — that’s the nervous prattling of a salesman who knows his product is crap. He nervously tries to change the subject and pretend he’s the prospective sucker’s friend… yah, a lot like the makeup sales person… except you don’t give the makeup lady your credit card and permission to keep punching in a sale automatically every month.

Nick,

First off, your book was of great help to me in my successful job search. More about that later.

Back to Mr. Cendella’s email, I am reminded of something I read awhile back about Amway/Quixtar: the #1 money maker for that company is motivational tapes to those who are immersed in the company trying to sell stuff, etc. Cendella’s email strikes me as being of that same genre.

Nick, I will blog in praise of your book soon on my site, http://www.mikeurbonas.com. Thanks for your book and this companion site which I just discovered!

Mike

The ladders offered me a free resume critique. I’m always interested in some feedback so I sent it in. It’s the same resume format that I used to get my last two jobs, I had a few executives that were friends of friends review it years ago and used their advice to craft that format and just updated it and customized it for the job. Ladders told me it was horrible, I wouldn’t get interview with it, but for $700, they could craft a great resume. I passed on the offer. What particularly turned me off was, telling me to use the latest buzzwords. I hate that when I read a resume, tell it to me in plain English. Plus, I’ve worked at companies where only they used certain buzzwords, they would be totally meaningless to anyone else.

Hehe,

You should do what I do.

http://hyperninja.com/messing-with-marc-cenedella-from-the-ladders/

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Now that fall is almost here, this is your time to prove to hiring managers you’re committed to wasting your money on TheLadders or Execunet! Show that you don’t really want a job, you just want to enrich the charlatan Marc Cenedella by buying his snake oil, month after month!

In the UK you get letters from their MD “With Warmest Regards” Derek Pilcher. Every day you get another mail trying to lure you to use their service, using spin and little personalised comments to try and con you into joining but people here are realising that The Ladders are charging people for the services of being an aggregator! We dont buy into the buying for services from employment business and it is in fact illegal and this is soemthing that is being looked at in the UK. How have they got around it and boy there timing was good, set up just at the time recession was biting and people were losing jobs in their thousands…. it is a big con and these ex HotJobs, Monster schisters really should be exposed and answerable for virtually taking money on fraudulent claims!