Justin M.

Decided to update my resume and wanted a fresh perspective so I decided to pay roughly $230 for the CV and cover letter update from a writer named Emily.

Once I signed up, I had to fill out a survey and was asked my top accomplishments which I thought was strange given I had already submitted my existing resume.

A week or so later, I got the resume they worked on and to be fair the template was vastly different from what I had been using. There was a high level statement followed by bulleted key words, the education came to the front, and my most recent job experience got pushed below education.

Here were the issues:
- The high level statement had a string of buzz words that when I put into Google, I found multiple people had pasted the phrase on Linked In profiles. Meaning they are re-purposing in verbatim!
- The bullet keywords were all general management phrases like "Sales", "Effective team management" etc. vs. Relevant phrases for my industry. They didn't even try to research what they would be!
- The tasks under my job were copied and pasted exactly from the intake survey.
- The cover letter was hopeless. It was 2 paragraphs of the most generic buzz word(y) thing you could have found when you Googled "cover letter template"

Overall, the only thing Top Resume will get you is a new format. Just Google, TopResume format and see the examples. Don't pay the $200 and just use that template and re-phrase it with your relevant experience and industry associated phrases.