Blew $140 on a 'premium' resume rewrite and got zero callbacks, but my free library workshop version landed 3 interviews
Three months back I paid a service $140 to rewrite my resume because everyone online swore it was the magic fix. The new version came back with fancy words and bigger margins, and I sent it to 22 jobs over 6 weeks. Total result: one automated rejection and a whole lot of silence. Then a free workshop at the Cleveland library helped me redo it in two hours, plain words, real numbers, one page. That version got 3 interviews in 10 days. So which is it, do these paid services actually work for anyone or are we all just buying peace of mind? I want to hear from people who paid for one and what really happened.