CareerExcuse

TLDR: These guys are legit and the service works. They're good people.

My story: The company I worked for went out of business last year and I had no professional references.

I'm a very capable and dedicated employee and lack of references shouldn't make me forever unemployable. After job hunting for quite some time, having no references wasn't working so I had no choice but to try to outsource my references. I looked at a couple different companies but Career Excuse seemed like the best one. I purchased the White Collar package.

I was down to my last couple hundred dollars, but had a strong potential job on the horizon. I was REALLY nervous about handing over the last of my cash to them wondering if it was a scam or not but I am SO glad I did! I set up my account and my references were ready really quickly. Before giving the references to my new potential employer, I called them myself from a different phone number (so they wouldn't know it was me) pretending to be an employer checking my references to see how they did.

I was actually taken aback by how real and professional they sounded. I threw some curve balls too and they handled them so well!

Anyway, I gave my potential new employer the references they created, and IT ACTUALLY WORKED! The employer believed it and I got the job! I had serious doubts, but Jennifer and William came through.

It took one of the references a while to respond but Jennifer handled it for me when I let her know. She responds really quickly by phone and text which is a huge plus.

I would not have gotten this job if it weren't for Career Excuse. They really care about their customers and want to do right by them.

They take their job seriously and I will recommend these guys to everyone who needs them. Hopefully I won't need faux references in the future, but if I do, I will without a doubt use them again.

Thanks William and Jennifer, (and the rest of the team too!) I appreciate all that you do.

If YOU are reading this review... let my past experience influence YOUR decision and consider it YOUR sign on what NOT to do.

THIS [FAKE] service is a SCAM. SCAM. SCAM. Don't waste your time, effort(s), nor your hard earned money on considering it.

JENNIFER HATTON, AMEY, WILLIAM, BILLY BOB or WHOEVER will just kindly and effectually sell their services and the MOMENT your funds are received........CRICKETS. Not even subtle about it. lol Against my intuition and better judgement i tried it, and was burned. ($220) That said: I will do everything within my scope of ability, connections, and acumen to EXPOSE this fraudulent service and any other BOTS &; sites that are connected to them.

Please reference the text below. It is a snapshot of my convo with Jennifer (scammer) Notice the fluidity of our conversation then 5 min after payment she never responds again.

If you need any additional insight, feel free to email my guy at *******@lobbyist.com (He has more time/resources on his hand to fiddle with this so he's happy to educate you more on this). Consider yourself warned

I had been working as a consultant for the last 4 years. Most of the roles had been with private equity firms, which often prefer to keep the relationship with their portfolio companies discreet.

I signed several confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements. Those agreements seemed innocuous at the time. However, when I sought to re-enter the corporate world, I quickly learned that the nondisclosure agreements also meant that I couldn't use those co-workers as references. In fact, some of the companies might pursue legal action if I disclosed that I had worked for them.

A reference check is the final hurdle for most professional roles. Without references, there is no chance of getting hired. So, I was left in a precarious position.
That is where CareerExcuse came in. CareerExcuse created those missing references.

My account rep, Jennifer Shanahan, carefully listened to my situation and made some suggestions. Then they got to work and the results are impressive. They created supervisors, companies (complete with a local address and phone number), and e-mail addresses. I still had to get through the interview rounds, but CareerExcuse meant that I wouldnt lose the job when HR did the final verification.

I stayed compliant with the nondisclosure contracts, but wasnt locked out of a new career.
I believe that reference checks are a relic of the past. Your next job shouldnt be dictated by whether you made friends in your last job. Each persons career accomplishments should stand on their own merit. However, reference checks are still a part of the hiring process.

CareerExcuse is a brilliant way to level the playing field for everyone. There is a long list of people who could benefit: Parents returning to work, professionals with a gap in their resume, people who have been out due to illness, or anyone who had a really bad boss in their last position.

Career Excuse doesn't do anything they say they'll do, except for take your money from you. They promise you they'll provide you with references, a history at a make-believe company and other things that NEVER materialize.

But after paying them, no one at Career Excuse will respond to your emails, or phone calls or do anything else they claim they will.

A few weeks after the date I was originally given, for the services I paid for, they eventually setup a fake position for me with one of their fictitious companies, where I could've claimed to have worked. But don't EVER expect Career Excuse to actually respond to a real reference check, from an actual, bonafide company that may be offering you a job. Amey Mason, Jennifer Hatton and William Schmidt (the owner of Career Excuse) are a bunch of con-artists, scammers and thieves.

What you'll be paying for and what they provide you with is absolutely nothing. It's very sad that these criminals take advantage of mostly desperate people who are down on their luck and who are willing to do almost anything to try to turn around their job market prospects.