Resume Writing Services

May 19, 2009 at 6:03 AM
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Maybe a bit off-topic from Perl Programming, etc., but related to work and career in general, but was wondering what people think of all these resume services cropping up? Seems to happen every time there's an economic downturn, but I'd think that would push down the prices. This is not the case, as most services seem to charge in the neighborhood of $800+

What do the rest of you think? Are you like me, working with a homegrown resume (and wondering if there's something else you should be doing with it) or have you used resume writing services and be very happy? Or felt ripped off?

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I recently employed the services of a well-known person in the Perl community who these days recruits and places Perl hackers around the globe (Uri Guttman, http://perlhunter.com)

I've been coding for years, but always worked as a sysadmin. I've wanted to land a dev job for a while; I know I have the skills - but I guess I didn't know how to market them properly.

Uri helped me take my self-written resume and refactor it, and his advice was excellent. His help cost me nothing, since it benefits *both* of us - I get a resume that gets more employers to notice me, and he gets another potiential placement candidate whose skills he now knows that much better.

I typically interview very well, but *getting* an interview always seemed to be difficult. Eighteen months ago when I started looking for something new it took me several months just to get a handful of interviews.

This time around I had several interviews within a few weeks, and I've already started a new job, finally doing what I've been wanting to do for years - get paid for hacking Perl!