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Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by inerte » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:18 PM UTC

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #14

bharris62 wrote: post #12

kinda cool, no where worth 25 dollars/month. myperfectresume has a bunch of lines to, and its free to get inspiration from theres....

To be fair, it's not really $25/month, it's a single month of the service for $25 (with a discount if you want to commit up front for longer). I'm guessing that most people who use this service would pay for a month, gussy-up their resume, then stop using it. That said, I'm with you with not wanting to pay for something like this.

Some A/B testing might be needed, but my gut feeling is that this should be a flat fee service (lifetime).

- I think very few people will want to pay for 3 months of the service. I don't get continuing value from building a resume, and I will know in the very first few weeks if it's working. If after using the service I don't get companies trying to talk with me, I will be unhappy with the service.

- There's no point in continuing to pay for the service after I am hired. And my consumer spider-sense tingle every time I see "$/month", because I know somewhere on the checkout page there will be something like "cancel before 30 days otherwise we will charge". Seems shady practice for a service that has no value after I am hired. I will be thinking something like "why do they want to keep charging me if I got a job?"

Also, really, how many times do people look for jobs? They might update their resume every once in a while, but actively look? Every few years? Then why pay for something monthly?

Now, if this was a flat fee (even $25), I think more people would sign up, which might offset the "losses" of subscription (my point being there's no compelling reason to subscribe in the first place)

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by 1337biz » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

rohanm93 wrote: post #24

avereveard wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They make you pay for that? Interesting, there’s a market for everything.

I totally agree the product isn't for everyone. I have a number of friends who regularly source a number of example lines from LinkedIn and their friends when they want to update their resume. Some people will continue to do just that while some people would prefer to pay for the convenience of all lines being shown to the user in one place. Thanks for the feedback!

Same here, I am always retooling my profile. There is definitly a market for that but it might be a less for a tech oriented crowd. You could also think about a similar project about job titles and the demands / qulifications that similar companies listed in the past for that, i.e. if I want to become the CIO of a mid-size manufacturing firm, what qualifications did similar firms request in the past and how were they wording it. I would encourage you to be more creative with your pricing because currently I would not be subscribing. Something like a high one time fee (for those that have some sort of urgency ($29 for 1 month)) and a really low per month fee ($2.45 per month for 12 month).

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by rigormortiz » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

avereveard wrote: post #10

KhalPanda wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At a guess, they're gleaned en-masse from the résumés of those working at 'prestigious' companies. e.g. SWE at Google - "these résumé lines must be good!"

They make you pay for that? Interesting, there’s a market for everything.

I think this service combined with a review services would be an even greater market. I've not had much luck with professional reviewers, though I've admittedly not used anyone local or expensive. I usually get vague feedback from online reviewers with basic hints (like, "You need to use less action words and more accomplishment words") so a service like this would give me the ideas the reviewer didn't. I've already found a couple of ideas in the free section.

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by sevensor » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:36 PM UTC

rohanm93 wrote: post #19

m52go wrote: post #15

Looks pretty. However for a service that claims to provide me the best words to put on my resume, the tagline "write impactful resumes" is rather harmful. "Impactful" is clunky. "Effective" is what you want. But neither word offers a specific pay-off, which is what you actually want in both a head-line on a site and a bullet-point on a resume.

Thanks so much for the feedback! It's really funny because my partner and I jumped between 'effective' and 'impactful' for the main copy a couple of times! I'm curious to know what others on HN think? I'll make a round of changes this weekend and will update the headline.

It's a matter of audience. "Impactful" is a corporate buzzword neologism, so it turns some people off. But it will definitely attract the kind of people who leverage synergies to align their processes for the win-win-win. Who do you want using your site?

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by camillomiller » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:40 PM UTC

Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by exception_e » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:42 PM UTC

Brilliant. I am looking to redo my portfolio site and this will help with wording examples

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by lr4444lr » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:42 PM UTC

camillomiller wrote: post #35

Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV

Can you give some examples of what succeeds on your side of the pond?

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by old_relic_ » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:44 PM UTC

KhalPanda wrote: post #8

dpcx wrote: post #3

How are these resume lines "proven?"

At a guess, they're gleaned en-masse from the résumés of those working at 'prestigious' companies. e.g. SWE at Google - "these résumé lines must be good!"

I have my doubts. The website does try to associate itself with these companies but some of the lines look like they are referencing side projects or very small startups.

> Doubled new user acquisition from 10-15 users to 20-25 through the implementation of new marketing strategies focused on online advertising and improving the company's web presence, social media, and search engine optimization.

> Identified steps to reduce return rates by 10% resulting in an eventual $75k cost savings

> Designed and implemented 50+ E2E tests using Selenium & Protractor, simulating each user group's actions

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by cbcoutinho » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:55 PM UTC

camillomiller wrote: post #35

Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV

How is quantifying your contribution to a company on a CV not taken positively?

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by dreamfactored » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 6:56 PM UTC

camillomiller wrote: post #35

Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV

Disagree if you are going for anything senior in consulting. This stuff only sounds like meaningless buzzwords if you don't speak the language, just as all Swedish sounds to me like the Swedish chef muppet. We could similarly lol at the vagaries of techspeak or any other expert domain language with its portmanteaus and abbreviations. Non-wannabe users of this business type of language expect every word to be up for challenge and defendable, and are actually using it for concision not empty wordiness. Having said that, any expert argot does of course narrow your audience which may be undesirable and demonstrate poor communication skills (though sometimes you want to do precisely this and show you are a peer).

What is alienating to Europeans is pushier approach and assumed familiarity in US-style cold sales, in B2B particularly. And also hidden assumptions of the MBA set (e.g. grow fast and cash out, and shareholder value being the sole true purpose of being in business) - those need to be made explicit and don't always align to company missions.