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Shoutout to the $200 'AI resume optimizer' I bought last summer
Paid some startup $200 for a service that was supposed to rewrite my resume to get past automated screening bots. It turned everything into buzzword soup. I sent it to a friend who hires mechanics and he said it looked like a robot wrote it. Then I tried the free version of a normal resume checker and got better results in 10 minutes. Anyone else get burned by these gimmick tools that promise to beat the bots?
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evahenderson1mo ago
My neighbor spent $150 on one of those "AI interview coach" apps that was supposed to tell him how to answer questions for his warehouse supervisor job. It kept telling him things like "leverage your cross-functional team leadership skills" when he just needed to say he had 10 years experience managing a night shift crew. It's the same pattern I see everywhere now, people trying to buy a shortcut past basic common sense. You don't need fancy software to tell you to spell check your resume and put your best skills up front where someone can see them.
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jamesf291mo ago
wow really $150 on that? i cant believe people actually fall for that stuff.
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blair_nguyen1mo agoTop Commenter
That whole thing is just another example of people thinking money can buy them an edge they don't actually need. It's like when you see someone spend $40 on a "life hack" kitchen gadget that does the same thing as a $2 knife they already own. The real problem isn't even the apps or the gadgets, it's that everyone is so scared of just being honest and straightforward now. Your neighbor would've done way better to just ask a buddy to look over his resume and do a quick practice interview with him over a beer, but that doesn't feel "official" enough anymore.
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