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Bought a $400 resume rewrite and it actually got me 3 interviews, but not for the reason I thought
I paid a woman named Dana in Austin $400 to redo my resume after 8 months of silence from every application I sent out. What convinced me to change my mind about paying for career help was that she didn't just fix my formatting, she made me write down the actual number of people I trained at my old job, which was 40 a year, something I never thought to put on paper. Two weeks later I had 3 callbacks and I honestly think it was that one number doing the heavy lifting, not her fancy template. Has anyone else paid for a resume service and felt like one small tweak made the whole thing worth it, or did you get burned?
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felix_lane9911d ago
So what happened after those 3 callbacks? That is the part of the story that matters most. Did you get further in the process, and did any of the interviewers actually bring up the number 40 on their own? I ask because job hunting is so random sometimes that 3 callbacks in 2 weeks could just be timing, a new budget at those companies, or a recruiter finally clearing a backlog. If they asked you about the training number, then you have real proof it was the change that did it and not just luck. Your point about Dana making you dig for that number is interesting though, because most of us forget the stuff we did every day. It makes me wonder how much good info is sitting in people's heads that never makes it to the page.
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