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I run a service that uses real people to review resumes, not robots

resumereviewers.com

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Theoretically, I'd like to like this, but paying to have 2 college students (i.e. people who have likely not even had a professional job before) review my résumé doesn't sound like a wise investment. I know you stated elsewhere in the comments that you have "other people," but I'd want to make sure that if I'm paying for this service, at the very least the reviewer was someone who'd hired for a job similar to what I was after.

I guess what I'm saying is this: why should I pay for this when I can just have lunch with a tech recruiter I know and get free advice?

In your marketing copy you call yourselves experts, but then in the team section you mention that you are students in college.

I would suggest making it more clear what your qualifications are that make you consider yourselves experts. As it stands now, I would be skeptical about your service.

I was just waiting for someone to say it. It was more of an experiment to see how people would respond to that word. I changed it to my original idea.

Thank you for pointing it out.

It would be important to know your team. I see it's just a team of 2, which clearly won't scale given the 'demand' that's present for the work you are into.

Do you have a team? In that case, please put up their bios on the page as well for credibility's sake. This is different than a usual software company. :)

You are correct, and I do have people, but I have to consult them first before putting them on the site. Haha :P

If I click "Get Feedback" without doing anything else on the page then I see "internal server error"

Are you just testing out the concept? I didn't see pricing anywhere on the page. Even if it's free you should probably mention the price.

Oh thanks for mentioning that, I will fix that bug, and you are right I will mention the price. I am not just testing this out, this is a real thing.

i think there is a problem. Your site insists that "Your resume must be in the format PDF, DOC, DOCX, JSON, or ODT". I tried for pdf and docx.

Make sure to move your site to HTTPS... As it is right now you're sending people's emails and resumes over an unencrypted connection.

Does it cost? What do you do with my resume? What's in it for you? Why does your privacy page throw a 500?

It does not cost, I will specify that. I will eventually charge for services such as editing and what not. I have fixed the privacy, thank you for pointing that out to me.

Suggestion: Provide a "before / after" comparison of actual submitted resumes.

since this service is free, why does it connect to stripe.com when uploading resumes?

There's no client-side validation on the inputs.

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