Does anyone have any recommendations for paid services that do this sort of thing?
KoZeN's offer to review CV's is really (really) nice, but with well over 40 to read, his offer won't likely meet the demand.
I've thought a few times that there must be something wrong with my resume and I'd like to have it reviewed professionally.
Has anyone paid to have their resume reviewed? If so, where, how much did it cost and was it worth it?
Google brings up plenty of options, but I'm nervous to use any of them for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.
Firstly, regardless of the size of the response, I will uphold my promise and provide feedback on every single CV I get, it may take some time but I will deliver.
Secondly, as for a paid service, you absolutely hit the nail on the head as far as your concern about for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.
This is the sole reason I haven't set up a paid service myself. How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect or even convince your market that you won't just give generic feedback?
Send me the CV and I will do my absolute best for you.
> How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect...
Well, that case is easy. If you can't help them, don't charge.
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea about convincing your target market. I think word of mouth would be most effective, maybe you could come up with some ways to generate that (like what you're doing now!)
What would you be willing to pay and what would you expect to get out of it ?
I think a big problem is that the return varies a lot, some people have absolutely awful CVs and some people have great CVs. If you're charging a flat-rate for CV reviews then some people will obviously get far more value out of it than others. If you charge variable-rate that's likely to put off customers who want to know upfront how much something will cost.
It does sounds like there might be an opportunity though for a developer-focused CV review service? HNcvreview.com anyone?
Maybe you could get away with a flat rate if you provided additional services besides the review. Maybe taking the CVs and turning them into a profile for them that's indexable by Google or creating a "reverse job application" like a couple people have been floating around lately here?
I'm not sure how well a CV review service would work alongside a reverse job application. I'm not so sure I'd want (possibly), old copies of my CV so readily available with suggested changes.
I got mine reviewed by Neil Rauch. I paid $75, and he must have spent about 3-4 hours on it to shrink it from seven pages to three! I did not accept all changes but most were helpful. Overall, I was happy that I got it reviewed.
Search for "Neil Rauch resume doctor" to find his contact information.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for paid services that do this sort of thing?
KoZeN's offer to review CV's is really (really) nice, but with well over 40 to read, his offer won't likely meet the demand.
I've thought a few times that there must be something wrong with my resume and I'd like to have it reviewed professionally.
Has anyone paid to have their resume reviewed? If so, where, how much did it cost and was it worth it?
Google brings up plenty of options, but I'm nervous to use any of them for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.
Any help?
I'm glad you brought this up.
Firstly, regardless of the size of the response, I will uphold my promise and provide feedback on every single CV I get, it may take some time but I will deliver.
Secondly, as for a paid service, you absolutely hit the nail on the head as far as your concern about for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.
This is the sole reason I haven't set up a paid service myself. How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect or even convince your market that you won't just give generic feedback?
Send me the CV and I will do my absolute best for you.
> How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect...
Well, that case is easy. If you can't help them, don't charge.
Unfortunately, I don't have any idea about convincing your target market. I think word of mouth would be most effective, maybe you could come up with some ways to generate that (like what you're doing now!)
What would you be willing to pay and what would you expect to get out of it ?
I think a big problem is that the return varies a lot, some people have absolutely awful CVs and some people have great CVs. If you're charging a flat-rate for CV reviews then some people will obviously get far more value out of it than others. If you charge variable-rate that's likely to put off customers who want to know upfront how much something will cost.
It does sounds like there might be an opportunity though for a developer-focused CV review service? HNcvreview.com anyone?
Maybe you could get away with a flat rate if you provided additional services besides the review. Maybe taking the CVs and turning them into a profile for them that's indexable by Google or creating a "reverse job application" like a couple people have been floating around lately here?
I'm not sure how well a CV review service would work alongside a reverse job application. I'm not so sure I'd want (possibly), old copies of my CV so readily available with suggested changes.
I got mine reviewed by Neil Rauch. I paid $75, and he must have spent about 3-4 hours on it to shrink it from seven pages to three! I did not accept all changes but most were helpful. Overall, I was happy that I got it reviewed.
Search for "Neil Rauch resume doctor" to find his contact information.
I've heard good things theladders.com's resume service: http://resume.theladders.com/
I don't think it's cheap though.