So, if you made it through the whole story below, you’re probably wondering what Allen and Associates actually does for all that money. Here it is -
They will rewrite your resume – but you’ll do all the work. They’ll have you provide an existing resume, ask you to restate everything in that resume, and come up with lots of action verbs and adverbs. They’ll then cut and paste those items into a nice font.
They will create a cover letter from that new resume – which also becomes their “broadcast sheet”.
They will provide a list of every company doing business in the cities you have expressed an interest in – they’ll give you the revenue figures for each company and the general industry they service. You will not get any clue as to whether any of these companies have a use for your skill set.
They will randomly mail your “broadcast sheet” to individuals working within those companies – could be anyone from the manager of the janitorial staff to the in-house legal staff.
Finally, and here is what they really offer, they will give you training on how to cold call these randomly selected managers and use your broadcast sheet as a ruse to a start a sales pitch for yourself. They will give you one on one training on how to push yourself and if you are really lucky, and the stars and planets are aligned just right, you might get a real interview. These cold call techniques are what they are really charging you for. You can easily get a list of companies doing business in any city. With a little research, you can find names of managers in those companies (LinkedIn, for example). But for the hard sell techniques, you can count on Allen and Associates.
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