BlueStepsReviews of bluesteps.com

BlueSteps is running a scam. They get you to sign up for a “Lifetime Membership” for hundreds of dollars but they hide the fact they then charge you $99 a year on your card with zero notification. And it’s impossible to cancel. There is no BlueSteps phone number and they never answer a single email. I’ve been trying to reach someone there for six months with no luck. I had to have my credit card company block more charges from Bluesteps. VERY DEVIOUS SCAMMY BEHAVIOR!

Paid for the premium service, no contact, no interest, no answer… nothing. Of very little value to EMEA customers.

Similar to the experience of others. Paid a lifetime membership in 2019 (£229) for no value and within 6 months they took another credit card payment and continued to try and take payments. Generally uncontactable. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Absolute Thieves. I aid for their service in 2019, received one introductory consultancy for a reasonable cost but decided not to use their service because generic and avg quality. in 2024 I receive a charge on my credit card of 79 pounds for membership I have never received, I sent 5 emails to get it corrected and they have not replied. I'm trying to stop the bank from paying but I'm to sure I will be able to do it. To unsubscribe from the website you need to send an email to the same address from which I have received any answer. I'm going after them, but do not fall in their trap

Scam. Complete scam. RUN AWAY! If I could give them zero stars, I would. They are simply preying on vulnerable people who are looking for jobs. As others have written, they take your $299 then auto renew your supposed "lifetime membership" for $99 each year. Their executive listings are aggregated from other sites. They don't have any actual customer service to speak of and don't respond to inquiries. At best, they are grossly incompetent and at worst they are criminal. Don't waste your money or time.

It’s a scam. Paid for a lifetime subscription and was informed 2 years later that my subscription has expired. They do not reply to queries and complaints. As for the quality of expertise at webinars - very outdated and generic. Complete waste of time and money.

As an Executive and Columbia Business School MBA, I was offered a discounted yearly subscription to BlueSteps through our Alumni portal. The subscription cost around $215 dollars for a term of 12 months. Looking back, I wish I had avoided joining this platform. BlueSteps can be best described as a job listings aggregator, similar to other mainstream websites. In my first month using BlueSteps, many of their specialty job search functions were non-operational or disabled, including the AESC Executive recruiter database and exclusive listings. As a paying user, I felt that I was receiving a poor return on my initial investment. At the time, I sent BlueSteps support an email conveying my concern on these issues and it went unanswered. When BlueSteps rebooted these features in 12/2023, I found that a majority of the job listings were international (non-US) and mostly in the academic sector. When looking in the US, and in areas like NYC, I found a general lack of recruiters and listing that were contrary to BlueSteps value proposition when I signed up. Since I paid for a full year in advance, I held out hope that my site experience would improve - it didn't. Four months into my annual subscription, BlueSteps attempted to issue a new annual subscription for my account onto my payment card. I was notified via email that my payment didn't process (one that i didn't anticipate being due) and that my subscription was suspended. I'm not sure what to say, as my payment card didn't change, yet BlueSteps continued to attempt rebilling me weekly through the next four weeks. Over this process, I was surprised at how active BlueSteps was to take steps to deactivate my account visibility and access to their platform features, while ignoring any requests for support as to why my annual subscription was being rebilled after four months of service. I spent a considerable amount of time reaching out to Bluesteps, via their website email, LinkedIn page, and known BlueSteps Executive consultants to try and get assistance. Its clear that this firm lacks a modern customer service proposition - seven personalized emails and multiple voicemails went unanswered over four weeks - and when calling their corporate line, I found that their corporate number was either invalid or had a full voicemail. I had strong hopes for BlueSteps and their partnership with AESC. This experience left me very disappointed and I do not recommend this service for others Executives looking for job opportunities within the US. Ironically, through this journey, BlueSteps still has not removed my payment card from their system after multiple emailed requests. I feel that I will be forever tied to this firm, in the event they wish to bill me for a service I no longer desire. I am emphatic for others who have allayed their concerns with similar stories with BlueSteps and hold out hope that the firm remedies these issues.

I paid for a lifetime subscription and it was cancelled after a year because I didn't pay the "renewal" fee. Even during that year, the value of this service/product is very low. It's a marketing company with a job board and tons of attempts to cross-sell coaching services. I hesitate to call it a scam, but it definitely feels like a scam.