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Subject:Expensive Seminars From:Karen Merrell <kmerrell -at- VNET -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 2 May 1994 08:53:51 PDT
As a veteran seminar/class taker, I've found NONE that are
worth $5,000 for three days! As for job-seekers - you're
better off buying a few self-help books and hitting the
pavements than you are sitting in a seminar. Doesn't anyone
remember the rash of employment rip-off artists that was
documented on 60 Minutes (or 20/20 or one of those) a few
years back? It was during our last unemployment panic in
the 80s, and the gyst was, if you had to pay someone lots of
bucks to help you get a job, caveat emptor.
Karen Merrell
