Warning: I let a "career coach" rewrite my resume for $200 and it got me ZERO interviews in 3 months

She changed every bullet point to corporate jargon like "leveraged synergies" and the hiring manager at my first real application literally told me it sounded like a robot wrote it, so I went back to my original version and got two callbacks within a week, has anyone else had better luck with any specific template or style?

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mary_wells5d ago

My neighbor paid a guy to "brand himself" for his plumbing business and ended up with a tagline that said nothing about fixing pipes. People are selling the same thing everywhere now - take something that works fine, wrap it in buzzwords nobody actually wants to hear, and call it an upgrade. Real life doesn't work like that. A good pie recipe doesn't get better if you call it "artisanal handcrafted heritage flour circles" instead of just saying it's grandma's recipe. Same goes for resumes. People can smell fake from a mile away.

kellyr184d ago

I feel for your neighbor, that sounds like a total waste of money and time. People think fancy words make things better, but most of us just want straight talk. You're right, there's nothing more trustworthy than someone who just says what they do and means it.