• ResumeGenius

ResumeGenius

Overview

ResumeGenius has a rating of 4.51 stars from 171,483 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with ResumeGenius most frequently mention great experience, easy process, and bullet points. ResumeGenius ranks 1st among Resume sites.

  • Value
    156
  • Quality
    172

Proactively asks for customer feedback

This company responds to reviews on average within 2 days

Positive reviews (last 12 months): 88.8%
Positive
46,358
Neutral
3,664
Negative
2,157
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • Super intuitive, great advice for helping find bullet points for job duties
  • Resume Genius has a team of amazing customer service representatives who are very patient and professional.

Critical highlights

  • I cancelled the day my credit card was charged and a chat rep said I can only get a refund of half of the price I paid.
  • It has great tools but at no point did it say that it would cost money at the end.
How would you rate ResumeGenius?
Top Positive Review

“With 8 years of experience in medical equipment sales,...”

Sara A.
2/16/24

With 8 years of experience in medical equipment sales, I've excelled as a Sales Manager. Achieving top sales status for Neurosurgical devices in Africa, I specialize in promoting leading brands like Integra Life Sciences and Codman. Proficient in hospital management and critical care unit promotion, I drive success through strategic sales initiatives and strong industry relationships.

Top Critical Review

“Kinda bullshit that you help me go through the entire...”

Tasney C.
3/19/24

Kinda bull$#*! that you help me go through the entire process of bolstering up my resume only to charge me at the last possible second just to download the resume that was fixed. Had I known beforehand that you'd be charging me to get MY OWN RESUME back right at the end, I would have chosen another company to go through. Enjoy your $3 because that will be all you're getting out of me. Also, saying "you must have put a 1 or 2 star review by mistake" is $#*!ing wild. Do better.

Reviews (171,483)

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bullet points (477) credit card (383) customer service (277) use love (139) use thanks (167) cost money (273) time building (77) business practice (65)
Thumbnail of user jonahv13
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 22nd, 2021
Verified purchase

This site is not free. I had a great experience making my resume under the assumption that it was free (as it says many times on Google), and was pissed having to pay $25 at the end. It's fine if you're going to charge for this service, but be more upfront about it.

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Thumbnail of user tasneyc
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 19th, 2024
Verified purchase

Kinda bull$#*! that you help me go through the entire process of bolstering up my resume only to charge me at the last possible second just to download the resume that was fixed. Had I known beforehand that you'd be charging me to get MY OWN RESUME back right at the end, I would have chosen another company to go through. Enjoy your $3 because that will be all you're getting out of me. Also, saying "you must have put a 1 or 2 star review by mistake" is $#*!ing wild. Do better.

Reason I chose this business:

I chose this site because it was one of the top recommended ones on google. I was actually hyping your website up to my boyfriend, who is also needing to update his resume, but now I will recommend he update his resume elsewhere.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Tasney,

We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. We strive to deliver the best customer service experience and apologize if we have not met that standard for you. Shortly, you will receive a private message from Sitejabber, so we can investigate what is happening to you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user angelao692
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
April 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

Your site mentions nothing about a subscription. It sets you up to have to pay after sitting fixing my own resume for hours. I would appreciate a heads up prior and I don't care to subscribe monthly but that is not an option either. Probably because in the mist of all that is pandemic you know I will forget to cancel this and you will feed your small army off this ridiculous monthly fee! :(

Reason I chose this business:

Rewrite my resume, an update.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Angela,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you!

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user romang130
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 19th, 2024
Verified purchase

So far I did not see much of AI being involved. Nice formatting, a bunch of prepared bleak, quite standard, texts for "summary" section and that's it. No difference from any non-AI resume builder out there.
Also completely failed to import my existing resume. One of the biggest glitches there - it won't import province\state name after city name. I.e. "Smalltown, WI", was imported as "Smalltown", WI was lost.

Reason I chose this business:

Wanted to see how AI can improve my resume.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Roman,

We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. We strive to deliver the best customer service experience and apologize if we have not met that standard for you. Shortly, you will receive a private message from Sitejabber, so we can investigate what is happening to you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user dijaw1
1 review
3 helpful votes
September 5th, 2021
Verified purchase

Site advertises as free, you work on your resume for a long period of time only to be forced to pay to download your updated resume. They know that after getting you to rework your resume you will pay them to avoid having to do it all again. I truly believe that companies who rely on dishonesty to get customers don't prosper in the end. Its better to be upfront than to lose customers with false advertising. I will be using a different resume builder going forward on principle alone

Reason I chose this business:

Advertised as free

Thumbnail of user charlia3
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
December 21st, 2022
Verified purchase

Resume genius began hitting my bank account before my trial period was over and refused to refund my money in spite of repeated promises that they would. In addition they began spamming my employer's account, an international fortune 500 corporation. A virus was the result and it created havoc with our systems. Beware of this fraudulent company which will drain your bank account before you even know it is happening.

Products used:
none

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Charli,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user briannar112
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

Advertisement of "no CC" or "free" is fraudulent. I'm sure you've covered the legal basis with small print, but I clicked on your link assuming it was actually free. I have now spent so much time on this page that I am forced to pay or start over with a resume builder that holds to their word. I'm so angry at the time I have wasted and I can only hope this $3 will actually pay off. My mistake for not looking more thoroughly into your website.

Reason I chose this business:

False advertisement of "no CC" or "free". I am completely dissatisfied and feel weaseled out of my money, thank you.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Brianna,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user jeramea
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 11th, 2022

I would first like to say the service the website provides works very well. But the practices of the company is poor. Initially I received emails of my first charge of 2.95 then stopped receiving all emails. I had thought my subscription was cancelled until a 24.95 charge hit my account. Actually in the previous month without realizing it. They do not email or send you receipts or a change of status of your subscription plan. They hope you forget and do not see the charge to keep receiving 24.95 from you every month. I receive a 50% refund which is not terrible but is bad after the lack of communication from the company.

Products used:
Resume builder, I made a cover letter

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Jerame,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you!

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user candicec205
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 13th, 2022
Verified purchase

I feel like I am being scammed, I got my resume once for about 4 dollars I believe and had access to it for 2 weeks. I need to edit one part to apply for a different but similar job and now have to pay $25 to get it for four weeks? Why can I not use the cheaper version? The download I have is a pdf and I cannot edit it with the software I already have. This website says you can make a free resume but you have to pay to download. Very scammy and I am very unhappy.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Candice,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user mjg41
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

You advertise on Google that your services are FREE, so that the person takes time to build their resume, only to later hit them with a fee. Not a flat fee, but a membership fee?! I'm paying the $2.95, getting my damn resume and after that, canceling. I'm gonna take some time out of my day to give you guys as many bad reviews as I possibly can, everywhere I possibly can too. This is false advertising.

Reason I chose this business:

Because you falsely advertised your services as free on Google.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello MJ,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user erinc819
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 4th, 2023
Verified purchase

Your system glitched 5-6 times and I lost my bullet points each time. I invested so much time in your system that I couldn't turn back or else I would've used another service. It took me 3x longer than it should have to complete this because of your glitches. I even had to start from scratch once because the glitch just wiped my entire resume that I had created. I would not recommend this service to anyone unless they had all day.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Erin,

We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. We strive to deliver the best customer service experience and apologize if we have not met that standard for you. Shortly, you will receive a private message from Sitejabber, so we can investigate what is happening to you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user gladysj29
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

The website should indicate that it is NOT free instead of waiting for people to have resumes completed to request payment for download. This is a cheap scam. People should be informed ahead of time so you don't make them waste energy in something they may not be able to afford.

Reason I chose this business:

Because I thought it was free. It says free when you google it and doesn't indicate payment is required.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Gladys,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you!

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user robertl3560
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 6th, 2022
Verified purchase

Never indicated a need to pay until I put the work in. This is awful! Imagine being poor and not knowing what to do, falling on to this amazing resource, and THEN being greeted with a PAY ME FIRST screen. Absolutely abhorrent business practice. I had to pay for this for a friend so he can get help to get a job. He's lucky I could help because I'm penny pinching pretty hard myself.

Reason I chose this business:

I found it on Google and it was easy to use. But I do not recommend this to anyone due to abhorrent business practices.

Thumbnail of user matthewm2087
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 21st, 2022
Verified purchase

Your link for the google homepage says free resumes. Only after you finish making the resume do you state that it's actually a $2.95 fee with a reoccurring charge if not cancelled. You're liars and scam artists who took advantage of me for $2.95 but will not get a cent more. I will tell everyone I know what a $#*! company you are so they don't make the same mistake.

Reason I chose this business:

Google search which was a mistake

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Matthew,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user brians3189
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
October 20th, 2022
Verified purchase

Don't advertise as free, and then once I spend hours on resume require a payment to get it. That is 100% crooked and definitely misleading customers. Cannot recommend this site to anyone.

Reason I chose this business:

Was advertised as a free way to make a resume

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Brian,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user aharrent
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 13th, 2020
Verified purchase

Said it was free then you have to pay for your resume. Not only that but the $#*! you comes when its a subscription you get charged every 4 weeks. I would have been ok with the one time purchase even though you lied but thats a no. To late now right? I bet to cancel it has to be over the phone swell.

Reason I chose this business:

Cause it was "free"

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Thumbnail of user ryanp525
1 review
2 helpful votes
May 2nd, 2021
Verified purchase

$#*! your hostage tactics. I went through 3 hours of editing me resume to have to end up paying for it. I can understand a one time 2 or 3 dollar fee. But a recurring fee every 4 weeks? Get $#*!ing bent. I will make sure i cancel immediatly. You $#*!s make me sick. You are just as bad as those "Free" makeup services that "only charge shipping and handling" to then start charging people every month for 80 bucks.

Reason I chose this business:

$#*! YOU, you $#*!s wont let me submit without signing up for your email bull$#*!ery? Im going to report you to every regulatory agency i can. I work fraud for credit cards. I WILL be cancelling. IF i see a single $#*!ing charge from you other than the ~2 bucks, ill come after you.

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Thumbnail of user rufuss50
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 28th, 2023
Verified purchase

Was led to believe that this was free only to waste hours tediously getting resume right only to be hit with a charge at the end. Litrally states it's free as the top Google search. Look for youself if you don't believe me. "Build Your Free Resume in Minutes No Writing Experience Required". Whatever. Enjoy your 2.95. I really don't have it as I'm looking for a job. Ugh, another expense. There's no such thing as help anymore. Everything costs something. I'm surprised the air we bring hasn't been charged yet.

Reason I chose this business:

For shoes. Really? For a $#*!ing resume. Dumb $#*! question

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Rufus,

We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. We strive to deliver the best customer service experience and apologize if we have not met that standard for you. Shortly, you will receive a private message from Sitejabber, so we can investigate what is happening to you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user candicej100
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 30th, 2023
Verified purchase

I just paid for it, but this site was very misleading. It said it was free then went to download and asked for $3 plus $25 a month. Shady as hell. I'll use it now because I spent so much time on it, but definitely pissed. Tell people what the cost is going to be. Does Turbo Tax spring this on people last second? No, they tell people as they're working on it how much it's going to be. You suck.

Reason I chose this business:

It seemed professional and forthright but just another dishonest resume company, apparently. Won’t be back.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Candice,

We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. We strive to deliver the best customer service experience and apologize if we have not met that standard for you. Shortly, you will receive a private message from Sitejabber, so we can investigate what is happening to you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user tommyo19
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
March 1st, 2020
Verified purchase

Extremely misleading. They say it's free, make you invest an hour in building your resume, but then won't release it to you unless you pay.

Reason I chose this business:

Because they lied and said it was free.

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Thumbnail of user alexm1903
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 5th, 2022
Verified purchase

Too expensive for someone who will on use this service once. You need to have a price per resume. This is ridiculous.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Alex,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user doriano12
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

This site came up as a free template service. It's predatory to have your services listed as a free option online. I spent so much time putting my resume together all to learn that you will be charging me for this. I don't really have an option at this point because I spent so much time I can't afford to start all over. Feels like you all lie then pressure people into paying at the very end

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Dorian,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user aidans55
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 30th, 2021
Verified purchase

You get off by stating that you're a free resume tool, and then attempt to charge people over $20 every month. Seems ridiculous to me. Only using this to get the resume that I put time and effort into creating. I genuinely feel bad for the people who wasted their time on your "free" tool.

Reason I chose this business:

Stated it was free

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello, we are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen so please be on the lookout for a private message to obtain your account details.

Thank you!

Regards,
Resume Genius

Thumbnail of user anthonyl385
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 12th, 2020
Verified purchase

"Free" resume builder should mean free. Not a hidden fee at the end making it the only way to download what you spend valuable time doing. Hence the 1 star rating. Looks great but it's a total bait and switch.

Reason I chose this business:

Because it was one of the first things to appear on a google "free resume builder" ---- Not free

Thumbnail of user kellyr906
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 29th, 2022
Verified purchase

Kind of tricky to not say anything about it costing money until the very end... just be honest and upfront.
Also, worse, you force people into having buy a monthly or yearly subscription. WHY? You should allow customers the chance to buy a one-time service. You know people end to have no choice if they want to access a CV they just worked several hours on putting together. Not cool.

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Alexandra M. – ResumeGenius Rep

Hello Kelly,

We are deeply sorry to see your rating towards us. We always want our customers to have the best possible experience with our products or services, and we would love to see if we can find a way to make that happen, so please be on the lookout for a private message shortly to obtain your account details.

Thank you.

Regards,
Resume Genius

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Established in 2008.

Resume Genius was designed to provide an online resume builder for users across hundreds of industries who need a new or updated professional resume. The resume builder uses a revolutionary powerful database with over 50,000 job phrases that users can choose from. The resume maker is fine tuned through testing to provide the best user experience.

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