I dropped $80 on a resume service and it actually worked

I paid a professional to rewrite my resume for $80 after months of getting zero callbacks, and within two weeks I had three interviews lined up. Has anyone else tried paying for resume help or did you find a free method that worked better?

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kelly38516d ago

Paid $60 for one of those online services once and honestly couldn't tell if it helped or not... then a friend looked at it and said it sounded like a robot wrote it. Ended up just redoing it myself with their feedback.

emery1916d ago

Ask if that friend had ever worked in hiring or just had good instincts?

charlie_ellis16d ago

That "robot wrote it" thing is exactly what I ran into with a cheaper service. I paid $45 to one of those resume mills and got back something that used the word "synergy" three times in one paragraph. What actually ended up working was a retired HR manager who charges $50 to look over your resume and just tell you what hiring managers would flag. She caught all the jargon and fluff and made me rewrite everything in plain language about results instead of duties. Sometimes the difference between a good service and a bad one is just whether they treat you like a real person or like another ticket in their system.