How do You Trust a Career Advisor?
By Soozy G. Miller, CPRW, CDCC, CDP
Trusting a career advisor at first is a difficult subject.
Unless you’ve gotten a specific recommendation based on someone else’s success, it’s a tough choice on who would provide the best results for you — or if you even need that help.
There are so many other legit places where you could put your money.
That big house project you’ve been putting off
A vacation
Supporting your kids
Stock market investments
You’re understandably wary to trust a stranger with your career.
I once trusted a “stranger” marketing company. I paid them a lot of money to do marketing for me and I got burned with no results. They even had written and video testimonials all over their website. A key player at the company was a colleague. They promised me the world, and yet I only talked to 3 prospects in about 3 months, none of whom were ready to work on their resume.
I learned that I have to own my own strategy by doing research and asking better questions to see if they will really address my needs.
That’s what I recommend you do: Ask a lot of questions. Do more research.
I have seen a lot of postings lately on social media, people asking for resume recommendations. People post general, public requests for suggestions for a writer/coach. But, again, how would the person even trust the writer/coach once they’ve talked?
The range of prices for services is like $25.00-$30,000. Sometimes my clients come to me after having spent thousands on a service—or just a resume—and they got nowhere fast. I look at their “updated” resume and I know why.
Recently, when I look at an updated resume, the reason they’re failing is they scream AI CONTENT. The language is too ornate. Or the client’s impact is strong in one spot and totally hidden in another. Or the results are general, like “Improved efficiencies.” Or there are multiple fields listed at the top of the resume, hoping that one AI content resume will cover all opportunities like a blanket.
Has any of this happened to you? Maybe you haven’t started to look for help with your career, because you have no idea where to look.
Like I said, this is a difficult subject. There is no easy answer here because the trust factor depends, situation by situation.
Sometimes I get clients by word of mouth. Sometimes I get clients randomly—they are so stressed out from the job search, and feeling so desperate, that they will send me money and then plead, PLEASE HELP even though they have never talked to me before. Maybe they’ve seen this column or read my books?
Sometimes people come to me and start the conversation with, “I don’t need the help now!” and tell me that they’re going to spend the money on something else. And then weeks, or months, or even years later, when they are proverbially bleeding in their career, they come back and admit, “I should have come to you sooner, I’ve wasted so much money elsewhere!”
I get it.
Spending money on an advisor like me sometimes feels, well, lame. With all the tools and options out there to help yourself for less money, paying for someone else to do what you think you should be able to do yourself feels … redundant? Unnecessary?
Or you could be like a few of my clients who stretched to afford my services, and did it because they wanted to make sure that they didn’t make any mistakes, or miss any opportunities, or waste any time, from the very beginning. And they didn’t.
My program now enables to you to send your optimized resume to 150 job applications at targeted jobs and companies through 9 job boards, every day for a year. The executive version also enables you to send private messages directly to hundreds and thousands of hiring managers and other hiring decision makers, thus bypassing the filtering software that the company uses.
If you are an AI specialist, the program is cheaper and faster and results in much higher paying positions through my Start-Up Network Platform.
So, how long do you want to wait to get help, and how much pain to do you want to feel?
Maybe this isn’t such a difficult subject after all.
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Better job. More pay. More control.
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