Paid $200 for a 'professional' resume rewrite and got zero callbacks in 3 months

Everyone swears by paying for resume services, but the template they used made me look like a bot and I had way better luck just rewriting it myself with plain language. Has anyone else wasted cash on those and regretted it?

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jake1911d ago

@william_taylor nailed it with the copy-paste job thing. I had a buddy who paid $300 for one of those and his resume came back looking like it was written by a robot from 2014 (you know, the "results-driven professional" nonsense). Honestly, is a few months without callbacks really the end of the world? People act like a resume service is life or death, but it's just a piece of paper. Just rewrite it yourself in plain talk like you said and save the $200 for something useful.

william_taylor1d ago

Bet on it being a template they just fill in for everyone. Half those services are just copy-paste jobs, you probably already had something better just using simple clear language. Not sure it's worth getting worked up over though, just tweak what you already wrote.