If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Yesterday, I received a phone call from someone telling me his story -- he'd paid a "lot of money to some resume writer" (bear in mind, that is one of my revenue streams) and nothing was working. No responses. No calls. Nothing. And he was very distraught. He proceeded to tell me that something must be very wrong with his resume. He'd had a lot of people look at it, "even some relatives with PhD's!"

I asked him a few questions about how he was looking for work and he said the usual: recruiters, newspapers, online sorts of things, like he'd always done. We chatted a while longer and I asked him to send me his resume and I'd take a look and see what, if anything, needed some work.

Upon review, his resume was good, in my estimation. And I told him so. I also said he didn't need to pay me to "fix" anything on it because I thought the person he'd hired had done a nice job. Sometimes, the resume isn't the problem...and the real issue becomes one of who, what, when, where, and how you're looking for a new opportunity.