Dallas resume writers will promise you a great resume you can use to land the job of your dreams. Unfortunately, that’s rarely what they deliver. No resume writer can produce a better resume than you can produce yourself. When you look at what resume writers do, that’s actually not too surprising.
Essentially, resume writers take information you already know (after all, you’re the one who gave it to them!) and put it into a cookie-cutter format you can easily come up with yourself. While they claim to have a magic bullet that lands you an interview every time someone reads your resume, they don’t. Employers want to make sure you have the qualifications to do the job, they don’t care about a skill they don’t need, no matter how cleverly it is worded.
The longer you spend working on your resume, the better it gets. When you pay resume writers a flat fee, you’re actually encouraging them to spend as little time on it as possible. If you pay them $200 for a resume and they spend an hour working on it then they made $200 an hour.
That’s a pretty awesome rate! If they spend two hours doing it, their rate drops by half, to only $100 an hour. If they spend four hours on then they only make a quarter of what they could. That doesn’t sound like a recipe for spending any quality time working on your resume. Frankly, is there a single person in Dallas who would work for $50 an hour when they could work for $200? It seems so simple when you look at it that way.
One person resume shops also struggle to provide good customer service. Most spend as much time as possible on the revenue generating activity of writing resumes, rather than providing outstanding customer service. In fact, some have been reported to the police and to the Better Business Bureau because they failed to produce resumes within a reasonable amount of time. Particularly those who are quick to respond to potential new customers, but very slow to respond to those who’ve already paid.
Even though the shops don’t spend the appropriate amount of time on each resume, they are very slow to actually give you your resume back. Every resume shop in Dallas has a long line of resumes to write before they get to yours. They may be doing them quickly, but you could still be waiting weeks for it to be completed. While you’re waiting on them to produce it, you’re missing job opportunities and quickly piling up bills. Many writers will not return resumes when they say they will, and you can’t start looking for jobs unless you have a resume to send.
In reality, the best solution is to write your resume yourself. That way, you guarantee it’s unique, interesting, and a true reflection of you. Use our great video to get started and you’ll have the skills you need to plan, write and layout a killer resume which will have every manager in Dallas fighting to call you in for an interview. You can do what Dallas resume writers can’t.
