Dropped $500 on a professional resume writer and got absolutely nothing useful

I was stuck in my job search for like 4 months and getting desperate so I found this highly rated resume service online based out of Chicago. Paid $500 for their premium package which was supposed to include a rewritten resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile overhaul. What I got back looked like they just ran my old resume through a template and changed a few verbs to buzzwords. The cover letter had a paragraph about a job I never applied for. I emailed them asking for fixes and they just sent the same thing back with different fonts. Total waste of money and honestly set me back a few weeks because I was waiting on them. Has anyone actually gotten results from these services or am I better off just doing it myself?

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jake_torres6820d ago

Wait hold on, how do you know it was the resume service's fault and not your expectations being way too high? $500 for someone to "rewrite" your stuff sounds like you paid for their time, not a miracle worker who can magically get you hired.

david56220d ago

@jake_torres68 is probably onto something, but still sounds like you got ripped off if they couldn't even proofread the cover letter. Throwing money at the problem doesn't always fix it, sometimes you just gotta grind it out yourself.