Bernard Haldane and Associates

Shaker of Toronto, OTHER January 7, 2007

Letter to BH & Associates:  I am writing this note to request you to refund the money I paid you since I did not get the kind of service I expected. I registered with your company in 2003 and at the time I was unemployed and financially in serious hardship, still I paid you by charging against my credit card a sum of 5,350.00 with the hope of receiving some good guidance and all I got was being shuffled from one counselor to another with no positive outcome. No one has tried to contact me since your office was relocated from North York. In a time of good corporate governance we would expect a company like yours to better treat its  clients. Kindly review my file and refund the money to me.

Timothy of Lafayette, CA December 7, 2006

This is so embarrassing, but a friend lent me the money for the Haldane program and they took her for 5, 000. If they are being sued, I would like to get her her money back. That was 10 years ago, and I still have not made enough money to pay her back. What happened? Same story as what you have on the website. Exactly the same.

Secret Data Bank? What they offered me were some dusty books with jobs that had been printed up from listings - the listings were old, and there were no contacts with hiring managers. That is the key. If they didn't have contacts with hiring managers, then they should not imply that they do. They do not. And they lied, and took 5, 000.

I lost everything, absolutely everything. I was coming from Japan and working to sell my skills to an American firm. My friend lost 5, 000. I never found a job, lost my daughter back to her mom in Japan because I could not support her in the USA, and her lawyer proved that, I left the country, lost, lost, lost. Haldane took me for every dime that we had, and I at least want my old friend, who hates me to this day, to get her money back and then some. Here was a woman who was trying to help her friend out and they saw that, and really, really took advantage of that. I want her to get everything. I don't want a dime because it wasn't my money. She lent it to me, and I still cannot pay her back.This happened at  Haldane's office in down town Pittsburgh, PA. They set that office up in Pittsburgh because there are so many mid level managers out of work there. Vultures!

Yves of Sorel-Tracy, OTHER November 24, 2006

I just read through the many complaints about Bernard Haldane Associates. I just thought that I would add a Canadian flavor to the stories posted. In 1997, as I was in career transition, I paid for Haldane services, or lack thereof. It quickly became obvious to me that ...  I had essentially lost my money. I eventually found a new job, but Haldane certainly had nothing to do with it.

Now, step forward to 2006. Again, I am in career transition. A few weeks ago, I came across a web advertisement about services to professionals in transition. On the company web site, I was invited to submit my resume for evaluation. A few days later, I receive a phone call inviting me to a face-to-face meeting at the company offices in downtown Montreal. What a surprise. I meet the exact same person that I had met at Haldane, although I did not make the connection immediately.

It is only when she started to throw her sales pitch at me that I quickly recognized the Haldane signature. When I returned home, I consulted my file on Haldane (that I had kept all these years) to find out that indeed I had just met the same person (by comparing her current business card and her former Haldane business card). Obviously, I did not sign up for their services this time around. My point though is that the Haldane scam seems to be well alive under different names. I cannot imagine that this occurance is specific to Montreal. So I invite all my unknown colleagues out there to be very careful.

Steve of Monument, CO January 18, 2006

I was laid off from the IT industry back in Oct 2002. Bernard Haldane contacted me, representing themselves as executive recruiters. The interview turned out to be a high-pressure sales pitch in which I was told I would be put in touch with high-level, high paying executive jobs that were hidden from the rest of the job market. To access these unannounced jobs, I would be given access to some exclusive Web tools and sites. I paid over 8000 for their services with their many promises about jobs. They never found a job for me. It even affected my marriage.

We used our savings to fund this hoping it would speed up my employment prospects. What a joke. It use pushed us further into debt and eventually bankruptcy and divorce.

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