I paid $300 for a resume rewrite and it felt like a total waste

I was trying to move from bedside nursing to a clinic job, and I kept getting turned down. A friend said my resume looked like a basic hospital form, so I hired a service online. They charged me three hundred bucks and sent back this fancy, two-page document full of words like 'synergized' and 'orchestrated.' It didn't sound like me at all. I sent it out for ten different jobs and got zero calls back. I think they just used a template and made it sound fake. I went back to my old one, made it cleaner myself, and landed an interview the next week. Has anyone else tried a professional resume service and had it backfire? What did you do instead?

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margaret3044d ago

Ugh, this is exactly why I hate that whole industry. It's not just resumes, it's everywhere. People pay for "professional" help and get back something that sounds like a robot wrote it. It happened to my sister with a dating profile writer. They made her sound like a corporate mission statement, not a person. These services just have a list of fancy words to swap in, and it always comes off as fake. Real people connect with real words. You fixing it yourself was the only way it was ever going to work.

paigem453d ago

Totally, my cover letter came back like a legal document once!

grant_hart2d ago

What did the service even say to defend that kind of writing? Did they try to tell you it was more "professional" that way? It's wild they get paid to strip all the personality out. I bet they have a template and just fill in the blanks with buzzwords. Makes you wonder if they've ever actually gotten someone a job.