Paid $200 for a fancy resume service and it actually backfired

I spent $200 on a professional resume writer last month and the version they gave me got way fewer callbacks than my old one. Turns out the ATS systems couldn't even read their fancy formatting. Has anyone else had better luck with a simpler approach?

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vera_sanchez10d ago

Honestly, the first thing I noticed is that $200 for a resume service is actually on the lower end. Most legit places charge 400 to 600 and up. So you probably got someone who just copied templates off the internet. Also, the ATS thing is real but a lot of people mix up "fancy formatting" with "bad formatting." Simple tables and basic bullet points usually work fine. But if they used columns or text boxes, yeah, those break the system.

grant.parker10d ago

Bet you could have gotten the same result by throwing $200 at a dartboard, @vera_sanchez.