Every now and then, one of my clients sends their resume in to another service for a critique. When they send it to some places, they get an honest response – usually saying ‘this is great and you don’t need any more help.’ But when they send it to one of the big resume mills [...]
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October, 2009
Enough! A Word About Resume Writers
Yesterday I happened to catch a conversation between a few recruiters on Twitter, several of whom were mocking the idea of working with a professional resume writer. When I asked one person why he was so against my profession, he said that he had seen people burned by working with bad writers.
I can believe that. [...]
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