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WEB WIRE, Wednesday, January 23, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, East Islip, New York

ANN BAEHR PROVES RESUME OWNERSHIP

Kathryn Carrado of American Dream Mortgage & Realty of California, Inc. recently made an unproven, false allegation of plagiarism against Ann Baehr, CPRW and President of Best Resumes of New York in a slanderous "Riff Off Report" on January 23, 2008.

Prior to January 20, 2008, three days before the bogus report was put online, Ms. Baehr and Ms. Carrado never had contact with one another. On this date, Ms. Baehr received an email riddled with ridiculously large red letters, demanding immediate attention. It was so bizarre, in fact, that Ms. Baehr thought it was someone playing a prank on the sender, Kathryn Carrado. Especially since it did not include a contact telephone number.

Ms. Baehr conducted an Internet search and located Ms. Carrado on LinkedIn. Ms. Baehr called her immediately to bring the email to her attention, only to learn that Ms. Carrado was the one who sent the email.

Needless to say, Ms. Baehr was taken aback. In all of her fifteen years running a well-respected resume writing service, she never experienced anything so unfounded as this false accusation.

Ms. Baehr engaged in conversation with Ms. Carrado in a friendly manner, attempting to clear the air, soon realizing that Ms. Carrado was far from friendly. The conversation quickly soured and Ms. Baehr's mood conformed to Ms. Carrado's gray disposition.

Following a strained discussion between the two women, Ms. Baehr questioned the nature of the allegations of copyright violation, and offered proof of her ownership -- which was not accepted by Ms. Carrado. Nor did Ms. Carrado offer proof of her ownership or possession except to say she had a printed copy of her resume somewhere.

It must be noted that Ms. Carrado's claim of her resume being plagiarized refers ONLY TO THE SUMMARY SECTION at the top of the resume.

Ms. Carrado stated on the phone and in her Rip Off Report that she wrote the resume in question three years ago.

Ms. Baehr explained that she wrote the resume more than three years ago - in April of 2001 to be exact - and has official proof, both electronically and from the client.

OFFICIAL ELECTRONIC PROOF:

The Internet makes a cached copy (PDF) of every document on the Internet which is a permanent archive. The site is called the WayBack Machine.

Also, when a file is created on a personal computer, the File Properties box indicates a "created" date that cannot be changed.

The earliest PDF of the resume in question was created on March 21, 2003 by the WayBack Machine -- nearly FIVE YEARS AGO -- two full years BEFORE Ms. Carrado supposedly wrote her resume.

The PDF created by the WayBack Machine is on the Archive.org server and cannot be accessed by anyone, not even by the website owner of the cached documents.

PROOF OF RESUME OWNERSHIP CAN BE FOUND HERE:

The resume that Ann Baehr wrote in April of 2001 was officially archived on March 21, 2003.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030418002126/www.e-bestresumes.com/dirbusmgt.pdf

Ann Baehr suggested to Ms. Carrado that perhaps she hired a resume writer three years ago who visited the e-bestresumes.com website and used the sample to write Ms. Carrado's resume. Ms. Carrado rejected that suggestion, stating that she is a professional writer (in a less than convincing tone in her voice).

If not, then Ms. Carrado is the one who visited the e-bestresumes.com site and plagierized the resume three years ago.

When Ms. Baehr pressed Ms. Carrado to confirm similarities between her resume and the resume in question from the point of "Professional Experience" downward, Ms. Carrado responded that she "did not get that far" in reading the resume.

At that point Ms. Baehr was further perplexed as to how Ms. Carrado could claim that Ms. Baehr plagiarized her resume when Ms. Carrado never read beyond the first few lines at the top of the resume.

The resume in question is fully representative of Ann Baehr's client, whose profession at the time the resume was written was a business operations / sales management professional in the automotive tools industry and who was, at the time, a general manager who led the start up of a leading computer training center on Long Island.

On Ms. Carrado's profile at LinkedIn, the "keywords" listed include sales and automotive. Perhaps she did see the entire resume, which extensively covers automotive sales experience specific to the client's career track. Ms. Carrado most likely thought the profile was a good match and stole it for her own resume.

It must also be noted that Ms. Carrado's elaborate blow-by-blow account of how the conversation between her and Ms. Baehr transpired was completely exaggerated and erroneous. Her rambling account of the so-called brothers was never described to her that way by Ms. Baehr, as Ms. Carrado reported.

Ms. Baehr explained the two clients were business partners in the same industry, who followed each other from job to job throughout their careers, and whose resumes were prepared the same week in April of 2001.

Ms. Carrado was informed that the client of the resume in question came to the office with his wife, who is a witness to the resume development and is in possession of the original resume. The timeline was seven years ago -- not eleven, and the occupation was as stated above -- not construction (she was told the client led the start up of a facility). It can only be hoped that if she is a professional writer, that she writes better than she listens.

Clearly, Ms. Carrado fails to accurately state facts. She also fails to present adequate proof of her claim that the resume is her original work. Her so-called handwritten notes, if they exist, were most likely produced when she plagiarized Ms. Baehr's work.

If Ms. Carrado is a professional writer, what are her credentials? Ms. Baehr's credentials include the designation of Certified Professional Resume Writer.


KATHRYN CARRADO'S PREJUDICE AGAINST EAST COAST ACCENTS:

Those who have ties to the east coast seeking to retain the services of Kathryn Carrado to purchase or refinance properties on the west coast should be aware of the prejudice remark made by Kathryn Carrado in her bogus report in which she stated that Ms. Baehr has an "obnoxious east coast accent"

RIPOFFREPORT.COM IS BOGUS AND UNDER SCRUTINY

The bogus reports at RippOffReports.com are not researched or validated. The quality of this site can only be compared to that of an unruly forum. In fact, the website itself states that they no longer accept rebuttals for this very reason. Instead, they offer advocacy services for a fee! That is how they make money on other people's pain and suffering.

Anyone can make false, damaging allegations about any company at this site. In fact, according to several reputable sources online, this website and its CEO are under scrutiny for its unethical practices.

This is the website that Kathryn Carrado used as her weapon of choice to freely and falsely accuse Ms. Baehr of stealing all of the resumes she is hired to write.

Ms. Baehr has thousands of clients, from 1993 to present, who have sat in front of her before, during and after the resume writing process and participated in telephone resume development and revision processes. Ms. Baehr has many testimonials on her website and would be able to obtain many, many more to substantiate this fact.

In addition to Ms. Baehr's CPRW credential, she is a professional word processor. She held the position as Lead Word Processor for several years at Corporate Entenmann's in Bay Shore, NY. Contrary to what Ms. Carrado stated in her bogus report, not only can Ms. Baehr format a resume but she has also developed her own website, e-bestresumes.com, without the assistance of a web designer.

Ms. Baehr wondered how Ms. Carrado knew of the e-bestresumes.com website from the thousands of resume writing websites on the Internet. In conducting a Google search on partial phrases from the resume summary, the e-bestresumes.com website does not come up in the search engines, so it is unlikely that Ms. Carrado found the e-bestresumes.com site that way. It seems she was already aware of it.

Upon further research using parts of the phrases in the resume summary, the website LinkedIn came up, and showed the summary as being part of someone else's resume.

Ms. Carrado is a member of the LinkedIn network. It is likely that Ms. Carrado saw she was not alone in copying the resume summary in question, and is in fact one of a handful of job seekers who have copied the same resume summary for their own resumes. Being that one of these individuals is a job seeker on the LinkedIn network, Ms. Carrado was most likely embarrassed. Being a businesswoman who promotes herself on the Internet as having a good reputation, must have panicked and decided to take action some how, some way, to save face.

Ms. Carrado threatened Ms. Baehr on the telephone that she had one week to pull the sample off her website. With proof in hand, Ms. Baehr refused. Immediately upon hanging up, Ms. Baehr emailed Ms. Carrado the following:

"Now that I know this email is legit and not someone trying to hurt you, I will respond to it -- based on our conversation . . .

If and when you take action, I think it is important that you know that the resume I wrote was written well over three years ago and I have documented proof of such.

Not only do I have proof on my own computer and on my client's end, but I have a cache of the actual resume that was stored on the Internet with the date that the cache was created that proves the resume was written more than three years ago. You would have had to written your resume much longer than three years ago for this to have happened. If you would like to discuss this in a civil, non-threatening manner, I will be more than happy to tell you the date I created the resume and the location and date that you can find my official, online proof"

This communication and professional offer to present burden of proof was ignored. Instead, Kathryn Carrado filed a Rip Off Report in an attempt to tarnish Ann Baehr's good name and reputation for excellence and integrity amongst her peers in the careers industry and thousands of clients who have received quality customized resumes. If Ms. Carrado really believes she is the owner of the resume, why hasn't she sought legal council as she so threatened? Filing an Internet-based Rip Off Report is a cheap shot and has no validity.

Ms. Baehr's burden of proof certainly speaks to her credibility and will hopefully reassure her potential clients that she maintains the highest level of integrity and professionalism that her thousands of clients have come to know and trust since 1993.