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Takmon

hpuse said:

Takmon said:

Well at least you didn't end up wasting money on a CV writing service. I don't see why you can't just write your CV yourself because nobody is going to know you better than yourself so how could they possibly do a better job. Also the employer will be using the CV to judge you so they will be expecting it to be something you have created yourself and not paid someone to do. 

Some people may not be able to articulate themselves well while writing, so a good professional CV writer, as long as he undertands the business and skillsets of his client, could be of help.

But i bet if you asked any employer if they would expect the person applying for the job to be writing their own CV or paying for someone to do it for them i doubt many, if any, would say they expect someone else to be writing it. 
Using the same logic if someone is not very good at articulating themselves at job interviews would it be reasonable to hire someone to go to the interview for them...

hollydays

Takmon said:

hpuse said:

Takmon said:

Well at least you didn't end up wasting money on a CV writing service. I don't see why you can't just write your CV yourself because nobody is going to know you better than yourself so how could they possibly do a better job. Also the employer will be using the CV to judge you so they will be expecting it to be something you have created yourself and not paid someone to do. 

Some people may not be able to articulate themselves well while writing, so a good professional CV writer, as long as he undertands the business and skillsets of his client, could be of help.

But i bet if you asked any employer if they would expect the person applying for the job to be writing their own CV or paying for someone to do it for them i doubt many, if any, would say they expect someone else to be writing it. 
Using the same logic if someone is not very good at articulating themselves at job interviews would it be reasonable to hire someone to go to the interview for them...

I have to disagree. You get one chance to get noticed, and if your grammar and spelling isn't perfect, I think getting someone else to draw up a C.V. is a perfect solution. Equally, would borrowing a suit to go to an interview be dishonest , as it wouldn't be a true reflection of how you would be likely to dress on an average office day?

Takmon

hollydays said:

Takmon said:

hpuse said:

Takmon said:

Well at least you didn't end up wasting money on a CV writing service. I don't see why you can't just write your CV yourself because nobody is going to know you better than yourself so how could they possibly do a better job. Also the employer will be using the CV to judge you so they will be expecting it to be something you have created yourself and not paid someone to do. 

Some people may not be able to articulate themselves well while writing, so a good professional CV writer, as long as he undertands the business and skillsets of his client, could be of help.

But i bet if you asked any employer if they would expect the person applying for the job to be writing their own CV or paying for someone to do it for them i doubt many, if any, would say they expect someone else to be writing it. 
Using the same logic if someone is not very good at articulating themselves at job interviews would it be reasonable to hire someone to go to the interview for them...

I have to disagree. You get one chance to get noticed, and if your grammar and spelling isn't perfect, I think getting someone else to draw up a C.V. is a perfect solution. Equally, would borrowing a suit to go to an interview be dishonest , as it wouldn't be a true reflection of how you would be likely to dress on an average office day?

If your borrow a suit your just getting help to show the best version of yourself, which is what employers expect. There is nothing wrong with writing your CV then getting someone to check your spelling and grammar to make sure you haven't made any mistakes because it's still essentially your work and your just getting help. But getting someone to write your entire CV for you means it's not your work at all and doesn't represent who you are.

shaun_from_Africa

Takmon said:

 But getting someone to write your entire CV for you means it's not your work at all and doesn't represent who you are.

Unless there is something stipulated in the employment details stating that the CV must be completed in full by the applicant, I can't see why a CV has to be your own personal work?
Provided that all the information contained in that CV is totally correct, then I fail to see why it wouldn't be a faithful representation of who you are.

hollydays

Takmon said:

hollydays said:

Takmon said:

hpuse said:

Takmon said:

Well at least you didn't end up wasting money on a CV writing service. I don't see why you can't just write your CV yourself because nobody is going to know you better than yourself so how could they possibly do a better job. Also the employer will be using the CV to judge you so they will be expecting it to be something you have created yourself and not paid someone to do. 

Some people may not be able to articulate themselves well while writing, so a good professional CV writer, as long as he undertands the business and skillsets of his client, could be of help.

But i bet if you asked any employer if they would expect the person applying for the job to be writing their own CV or paying for someone to do it for them i doubt many, if any, would say they expect someone else to be writing it. 
Using the same logic if someone is not very good at articulating themselves at job interviews would it be reasonable to hire someone to go to the interview for them...

I have to disagree. You get one chance to get noticed, and if your grammar and spelling isn't perfect, I think getting someone else to draw up a C.V. is a perfect solution. Equally, would borrowing a suit to go to an interview be dishonest , as it wouldn't be a true reflection of how you would be likely to dress on an average office day?

If your borrow a suit your just getting help to show the best version of yourself, which is what employers expect. There is nothing wrong with writing your CV then getting someone to check your spelling and grammar to make sure you haven't made any mistakes because it's still essentially your work and your just getting help. But getting someone to write your entire CV for you means it's not your work at all and doesn't represent who you are.

I have to point out,that gettting someone to re-jig your CV, is also getting help to show the best version of yourself.🤷‍♀️It's not as though they can add" Hobbies: scaled the north face of the Eiger". It's your achievements , and only your achievements.So what if someone else lays it out better with bullet points? Since when did being totally honest ever get someone a job ? If asked to describe your faults in an interview, for example, saying, " I am very poor at spelling / too busy /disorganised to write a good CV" ,isn't something you'll ever see in a book on interviews.. No offence to the OP🙂

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All the above comments are irrelevant to the OP's question as to what she can do to make some note that the person she paid to do some work let her down.

If you can't leave a review on the site itself, I'd leave a review on independent review sites (like the ones you read).  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much else you can do.

BTW I have helped plenty of people with CV's.  It doesn't mean they can't do the job unless the job requires a certain level of grammatical ability (if that is the problem why the person isn't doing a CV themselves.  In my experience its usually a lack of ability to show themselves at their best on paper.  Mechanics, builders, factory workers, plumbers, retail workers etc don't need written perfection skills.  They do need CV's still.  Far too dismissive replies so far.

hpuse

Takmon said:

But i bet if you asked any employer if they would expect the person applying for the job to be writing their own CV or paying for someone to do it for them i doubt many, if any, would say they expect someone else to be writing it. 
Using the same logic if someone is not very good at articulating themselves at job interviews would it be reasonable to hire someone to go to the interview for them...

A lot of CxO's wont be on their job, if their own employers expect them to write their profiles that we get to read on the company websites...

Writing is an 'art', and any well written CV is just a personally polished-marketing tool.

There are 1000s of linkedin profiles out there that read like gold-standard and my personal experience taught me that never go with what you see with written stuffs..

Sadly, we live in such a fast-paced world and it is often the electronic presense gets noticed first and hence the paragraph/page that gets read leads to someone getting shortlisted in the process. 

So, again in my opinion, since shortlisting is the first vital hurdle to jump, some people that cannot articulate enough by writing their own may benefit with a professional CV writer.  Of course, the interview is designed to 'test' the personality, skills and experience mentioned inside and outside of the CV, so there is no guarantee that a professionally touched-up CV will get you the job.