We allow job posters to post jobs for free. Each job in turn is broadcast on our twitter feed. When we attempted to contact Hound, they were clueless. The person I spoke to told me they were using an automated method, which is complete BS as we use a captcha control on our posting form.

We do not allow spam or any get rich quick, work at home scam postings. I found your site by searching for hound.com Google auto suggested the scam word for me. BTW nice site. Look forward to talking to you more after our next software revision. It will be HUGE in terms of capability. HR meet social media and automated candidate mathching :-)

Mike
CEO jobshouts.com

Someone just forwarded me this piece of trash comment on your site. I cannot believe you are publishing this stuff … It would be humorous if the person who was writing it was not so sick.

They are also wrong.

LawCrossing, for example, is one of the best known websites in the legal community. It has been on the Inc. 500 twice. A significant portion of American attorneys are members of the site. The idea that these sites are scams and do not work is ludicrous.

Hound has received numerous public recognitions from major national publications and EmploymentCrossing is also a very well known and effective site. These are good sites with good people working in them.

BCG Attorney Search is among the best known and most effective attorney search firms in the United States. Its recruiters are asked to speak at conferences on an ongoing basis and are among the top figures in this industry. Here is one of them being interviewed on CNN this week http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2009/03/17/am.carroll.changing.jobs.cnn

Providing a forum and approving comments that are untrue does not seem like it is something that really ads a lot of credibility to what you are doing. I am not sure why it is relevant where I went to school, for example. I run job sites and help people get jobs.

I am unsure how relevant any of this is to the fact that our company has several hundred employees and owns a lot of real estate. We have numerous offices around the country. Why does any of this matter though? I am not under investigation by “the feds” for anything. Not in mainstream media? Our sites get traffic from millions of people per month–we are the media.

We are not perfect. We have made mistakes and I have as well. One of the biggest mistakes has been people I have hired in the past and then fired. This particular former employee you are allowing to air their grievances is someone we hear from from time time time. In fact, we have a lawsuit going against them right now …

We provide an excellent service to people and are passionate about the work we do and have been for a long time. In fact, I firmly believe we provide a job search service that exceeds anything out there. We are also very good at what we do.

I think you run a great site, Joel and enjoy reading it from time to time.

–Harrison

Barnes and his co-conspirator Colleen Trapp, have set up numerous websites where they list job openings. Some of these sites are pay sites, some are free. None of these jobs actually exist, but the job description is written broadly enough to entice an applicant to apply. When an applicant submits his resume to the website, his e-mail contact information is kept and he shortly begins to receive e-mails from his “affilates” to join a pay site. To aid in the enticement, phony jobs are posted on the paysite, which usually allow you to view the job description, but gives you no information about the firm seeking to hire. After you have paid your montly fee to the website, you are able to further browse jobs and apply through the affiliate site for the job posting. The trick is: your resume never gets to an employer. No job existed. In fact, all the jobs listed on Barnes’ sites are written by Barnes or Colleen Trapp.

Barnes, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School has never actually practiced law. His income consists entirely of proceeds from the many website scams and other rackets. He is currently under investigation by the feds. He spends his days blogging and publishing internet articles in an effort to pass himself off as a professional in the staffing industry, but he is far from legitimate. A close look at Barnes’ writings finds numerous plagerisms, and layers of fictitious corporate names to conceal the fact that he has self-published most of his writings and has not been accepted by mainstream professionals in the Job Search industry.

A. Harrison Barnes runs all of his companies out of a small office in California. He uses the address of 175 Lake Ave. for all of his busisses, but never pays taxes on any of them. He has also been linked to business filings with the Nevada Secretary of State. The California and Nevada Secretarys of State lists at least 100 business that Barnes has started since 2000 most for which he has never claimed any taxable income.

Barnes has at least three co-conspirators in his operation. I was not certain that they knew the entire operation was a scam, so I told at least two of his comrades personally and explained it in detail. Their denials affirmed my suspicion that they had prior knowlege of the operation of the scam.

Here are some of the fake companies started by A. Harrison Barnes. If you run into a staffing firm, and are not sure about it’s legitimacy, post the name on this blog and I will check them out for you.

Law Firm Staff
BCG Attorney Search
Law Crossing
JD2B
Judged
Juriscape
Law School Loan Report
Law School Loan
Legal Authority
Legal Authority Financial

This guy’s into a lot of unscrupulous activity yet he seems to be getting away with it…

“I came across the site called resumeapple (d0t) com. The name may sound funny but it has everything what u r lookin for like resume writing services, resume writing tips and other useful information. Try it and let us know how u liked it?
www (d0t) resumeapple (d0t) com”

(Broke the links to they don’t get the benefit of PR)

IP address: 75.126.83.232. Host name: sflayer15.hound.com.

Whois: Domain Name………. resumeapple.com
Creation Date…….. 2007-02-13
Registration Date…. 2007-02-13
Expiry Date………. 2015-02-13
Organisation Name…. Attorney Resume
Organisation Address. 3914 Seaton Place
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Las Vegas
Organisation Address. 89121
Organisation Address. Nevada
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

Admin Name……….. Andrew H Barnes
Admin Address…….. 175 South Lake Ave
Admin Address…….. Suite 200
Admin Address…….. Pasadena
Admin Address…….. 91101
Admin Address…….. CA
Admin Address…….. UNITED STATES
Admin Email………. *******@bcgsearch.com
Admin Phone………. 2431800
Admin Fax…………

Andrew H Barnes, A. Harrison Barnes – it’s still spam, and it’s NOT cute, cuddly, genuine or different.

I don’t know about other Bloggers / Blog readers, but I say (as, apparently, does Joel – *ahem*) bring on the ads! If a job board can just get rid of the JobSPAM (”Start your own insurance agency!”, “Become a truck driver!”), “Business Opportunities” (”Benefits company is hiring (as long as you invest and expect no pay…”), and fake “pad my inventory” recruiter jobs (come on, you know someone in your office who does this), that would be enough to stand head-and-shoulders above the crowd.

Dan