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Dominick F. from Friedman Williams Group

Posted by Rater in Review on February 21st, 2009

485 Seventh Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York, NY 10018
212-867-7000      212-868-0100 (fax)
300 Craig Road, 2nd Floor,
Manalapan, NJ 07726
732-409-6900      732-409-6901 (fax)
Got contacted by this gentleman for quite a few times. Never got a position through him, but he sounds like a nice guy, very polite on the phone and through the e-mails. We went through some opportunities that were of interest to me, but it just didn’t work out.
Usually sends out the e-mail that starts with canned greeting. I usually get something like this:

Good afternoon.
Sorry to interrupt your busy day; I was wondering if you could help me out or perhaps we can help each other?  Do you know of anyone looking for a new job opportunity? I happen to have one outstanding %Position title and text follows%

Aside from huge signature (the information about the company above is about 70% of it), never following up on the client’s reason to reject the resume (no reason is a reason too) and same old template for initial e-mail with position description it is a pleasure to deal with him.

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Berman Larson Kane

Posted by Rater in Review on February 14th, 2009

This Berman Larson Kane staffing company still puzzles me. In all honesty I don’t remember ever talking to anyone from their staff. Most likely I had a stupidity to respond to one of their e-mails or some job offer that turned out to be an e-mail trap. Berman Larson Kane keeps sending me some correspondence once every few days, which I religiously mark as spam. Eventually, all my e-mail clients start treating their e-mails as spam and we settle. However, after some time either I upgrade a PC or start using another e-mail client, or something else happens – and the name Berman Larson Kane pops up again.

If you do a simple Google search you will find plenty of their job postings, so it’s still a mystery to me as to why this company would not take my e-mail off their can-spam list and start sending me some real jobs. Since their web site still looks like it was developed back in 1992, I guess they just have no idea how to do it.

In case you have a patience and have half hour to spare you can also wait and check out company’s blog. Not much insight, but it will give you an idea of the level of professionalism of this company.

Berman Larson Kane
Phone: 800.640.0126
Fax: 800.748.5351
Email: jobs@jobsbl.com

Mailing address is:
Berman Larson Kane
12 Route 17 North, Suite 209
Paramus, New Jersey 07652

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Gargi K. from SANS

Posted by Rater in Review on November 23rd, 2008

IT Recruiter
212 616-4800 ext. 130
SANS Consulting Services, Inc.

Sent me three position opportunities after which disappeared. Starts his e-mails the same way:

Dear %my first name%,
I thought you would be interested to hear about this particular Try & Buy position at a designs and develops software tailored to the unique requirements of high-net-worth marketing and communications programs.(the reference # for this position:% Reference number %)

Never actually contacted him. The formal letter and the fact that one of the three e-mails had someone else’s name with my e-mail in the To: field suggest that he’s mass-mailing openings to everyone on his list. Positions I personally got from him were never relevant to my experience/resume.

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