Resume Go

While I found significant improvement with my resume, I don't think their LinkedIn and cover letter services were that good. The LinkedIn uses a lot of info from the resume and doesn't add any neew element. The cover letter service is okay, but again - nothing special - something I would likely have been able to write myself.

While the initial draft of my resume by Lana at ResumeGo was well-written, it was not what I was going for. I sent several job descriptions of the types of positions I am applying for as requested, but it appears that was ignored as this was not incorporated in the resume. The revision process was not collaborative at all, and while I hoped to receive some guidance, she simply changed a few words here and there exactly as I suggested (even though I asked for her feedback). You are given 14 days and unlimited revisions, but when your writer is MIA for 7 of those days, it makes it difficult. Not to mention, I also paid for a cover letter and LinkedIn profile, and the cover letter is useless and the LinkedIn is an exact copy and paste of the resume. No one at the company seemed to care about my concerns as they are clearly only focused on quantity and profit. Back at square one with my resume.

After a few back and forth emails with my writer and a promise of a rough draft, I've never heard back from the company. I made multiple attempts at messaging my resume writer and the company, and I've never received a reply or even a rough draft of a resume. I am currently having to dispute the charge with my credit card company. Awful.

I never used linkedin before so I went with resumego. They made it seem from their site like they would do everything, but from buying their services and t alking to my writer, they told me they would only give a word document containing the information I would use on my linkedin - aka I would need to enter in the information myself. While this was okay, I very much preferred them creating my account from scratch which is why I am giving a 3 star reveiw.

I was really disappointed with my experience. It took a week after paying and filling out the survey to get a response, the site says three days. It was a 20 minute phone discussion where I spent most of the time explaining key words in my field and what they mean. The two page resume that I provided was pretty much just rehashed into one page and took out all of the what I would consider meat. Completely deleted all of my patents, professional associations, and medical devices that have been approved by the FDA. It consisted of job history and keywords. The job history the writer didn't even pay attention too. I have 15 or so years of experience, but my resume only has the last 11. I explained that to the writer and got back a cover letter that says I only have 11 years of experience. The LinkedIn profile writing was a copy and paste of my cover letter, which was a rehash of my previous job experience verbatim. After 1 month, we are 0/25 on responses. Maybe worth 100$ to rewrite your existing resume into a new style, but nothing was based on any relevant articles I could find on resume writing.

I had a really pleasant time talking with my writer about the ins and outs of my resume and what should be done to improve it. I don't like how their customer support is hard to reach by phone, but besides that, everything else was really solid and I have no real other complaints.

Special thanks to Katherine for working with me throughout this whole process and answering all the questions I had in regards to my resume and LinkedIn.

Was debating between 3 resume companies that I stumbled across online... I think I ended up making the right choice. The resume they wrote me looks well put together and I'm excited about the potential prospects it would bring.