Anyone ever used a resume service?

[OC]

Had any luck? Got any recommendations?

tia

-OC

ps - yes, this is because i hate my fking job

[ray]

what do you mean by a resume service? you mean a headhunter type place like monster.com, headhunter.net or a place that reviews and polishes up your resume for you?

[OC]

A place to tweak and polish my resume.

[chrissy]

Did you ever redo your resume from when you showed it to me last?

[Grimm]

I have. It was a seperation benifit when I was laid off. Basicaly they come in and tell you how much of a favor your old company is doing for you by providing them as a benifit. Then they give you job counseling and stick your experience and education into their ready-made format. I didn't get one call untill I re-did my resume myself.

So you want to pay a company to make your resume identical to the thousands of others in the sea of resumes HR departments receive?

One thing they did tell me that did help. A HR departments job is to filter out your resume. To prevent the hiring manager from seeing it. Yes, HR is your enemy. They don't know a thing about the position they are trying to fill. They look for specific letters or catch-phrases and ditch your resume if they don't see exactly what they are looking for.

So you need to get around them. Contact someone who already works there. You probably know someone who knows someone where you want to work. Target companies and network a contact. Have your contact place a copy of your resume in the hand of the hiring manager. At that point you have passed 99% of the other applicants up. The hiring manager then has a recomendation from a current employee, who he has a reason to trust, and he can see the qualifications himself. He knows a lot better what he needs than HR.

Three things to know for getting a job with a large company:
1) Get around HR.
2) Get around HR.
3) Get around HR.

[OC]

Originally posted by chrissy
Did you ever redo your resume from when you showed it to me last? Yes.

[cheapie]

Originally posted by Grimm
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you are absolutely correct

[guiseppewv]

Originally posted by Grimm
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So you need to get around them. Contact someone who already works there. You probably know someone who knows someone where you want to work. Target companies and network a contact. Have your contact place a copy of your resume in the hand of the hiring manager. At that point you have passed 99% of the other applicants up. The hiring manager then has a recomendation from a current employee, who he has a reason to trust, and he can see the qualifications himself. He knows a lot better what he needs than HR.
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True, very true.

[Hiro]

I have used one service previous...it worked out GREAT and was really cheap.

It's called, "My Mom." :hehehmm:

[LPMiller]

Originally posted by Corsec
I have used one service previous...it worked out GREAT and was really cheap.

It's called, "My Mom." :hehehmm:

So you're saying your mom is cheap? Hell I could have told you that.

[ray]

OC, if you want to send me your resume i can take a look and polish it up. Boston College took my resume when i was a freshman and posted it on their career center website with fake information, to use as a guide for other students.

If you go onto Google.com and search for my name "Raymond Kwan" you'll see a handful of respones. Click on the third link entitled "Raymond Kwan" and that is pretty much a carbon copy of the resume i made when i was a frosh in college.

since then i've obviously updated my resume, but i can tell you that i prepared my first resume from scratch when i was 16 years old. My overall layout hasn't changed much.

[whitak24]

i would advise against it. it seems that most resume services i've seen are staffed by people with very little knowledge and experience who probably are working in a resume service because they couldn't get a "real" job with their english or history major (trust me....i'm a liberal arts major.....job hunting sucks).

instead, try to find sample resumes on the internet and see how yours measures up. talk to any people who are experienced job-hunters or work in some sort of hiring/applicant reviewing capacity at a company, etc.

[Hiro]

Originally posted by LPMiller
So you're saying your mom is cheap? Hell I could have told you that.
I wouldn't know in that respect, I don't look to her for those type of pleasantries. Hey, maybe you do, that's your thing. :P

[guiseppewv]

Originally posted by LPMiller


So you're saying your mom is cheap? Hell I could have told you that.

I was going to say the samething but I refrained. :D