ResumeGroom - Fast Resume Review for Financial Services and Technology Professionals
Hello!
First time posting to this community. Stumbled across this today and this is definitely a place where I will be spending more time.
I graduated university in 2016. After graduation, I have worked in financial services as a trader in New York and have now transitioned to a software engineer at a HR company. One thing I've noticed throughout the transition is the lack of ways to get feedback on a resume. Although students can just go to the career center at the school, there are a lot of insights into resume construction for certain industries I've never seen a generic career development center at a university tackle. I've seen people post on Reddit asking for resume reviews but never was able to get many responses. Googling for resume reviews from 3rd parties yield results that cost 100-400 dollars from a simple review to a white glove resume writing service.
I've built out a small landing page with a web form to submit a file and an email address to validate my idea for the demand of resume reviews for students looking to break into financial services and technology. At first, I'd be doing these reviews myself for free. I'd like to validate that there is actual a significant demand for this service before trying to proceed further with monetization of the service.
I've setup Google Analytics on the landing page I've built and wanted to get some feedback on what you guys think of this idea.
Hey, I found that the burger menu on the home page didn't work on Chrome/Android 8. Clicking it didn't bring up the menu.
Got it. Will remove it since it's not needed on mobile.
You need a lot more information on the "professionals" that are reviewing the resumes. Lots of people aren't going to pay some guy that has had two jobs out of college to look at their resume. They might pay someone who worked in HR at a big company and understands what it takes to get through the HR screen and land on the decision-maker's desk.
I've made some edits to the copy/language on the website to show that I'm more of a one more job. Mind taking a look again at the copy text?
Hmm. At this unfortunately it’s only me. I’d love to get more people but at this point I would have to start off solo. What is the best language to market this? I think I would have to compete on price right now?
I think it would be helpful to potential customers to give them a concrete example of the improvements you can make to a resume.
Perhaps and an example of a resume before and after you reworked it.
That's a great idea. I'll look into posting some screenshots for sure.
Hey! The one thing I noticed immediately was that the initial bit of text and image is too low on the screen when first going to the page. It should be centered without me having the scroll down.
Also, maybe you should have a FAQ section where you answer some questions the visitor might have like, "Why should I trust you with my resume?"
Thanks for the feedback! Hmm. Is that really the case with the first block? I don't see it perfectly fine on my screen. Are you looking at it on a laptop?
Yeah, i'm on a 13 inch macbook pro on chrome
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Understood. Thanks for the feedback. What is the best way to present myself if I’m the only one looking at resumes currently?
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