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TopResume has a rating of 3.5 stars from 5,561 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with TopResume most frequently mention cover letter, great job, and linkedin profile. TopResume ranks 11th among Resume sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 86.8%
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Top Positive Review

“Seamless process”

Ellissa A.
7/27/24

I had an outdated resume and several documents that would need to be pieces together to complete a new resume. I was worried that it would be difficult for my writer to create a cohesive whole, but Allen did a phenomenal job. Drafts were sent quickly, he was so communicative and helpful, and we completed the process by draft 2 and ahead of schedule. I highly recommend this service.

Date of experience: 7/17/24
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Top Critical Review

“Save your money, it's a scam”

V D.
9/25/24

I regret wasting my money on their "service". There are no "professional writers" on the platform - someone takes the CV you provide them as a starting point, puts it through ChatGPT and send you whatever it regurgitates. The second Draft they created was even worse.

Date of experience: 9/15/24
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Arizona
2 reviews
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January 16th, 2024
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My current resume is complicated because I'm 63 years old and into my 3rd career. I received a quick response with the first draft that simplified my resume. I asked questions about the logic of what was presented and the answers were logical and sensible. It was great for me to get the insight of someone with current knowledge and great writing skills.

Reason I chose this business:

TopResume was suggested or somehow linked to a City job board. It's price was similar to other services I found.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Don,

Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're absolutely delighted to hear about your positive experience. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and we genuinely look forward to the opportunity to assist you in the future. If you ever need further assistance, please feel free to reach out.

Your support is incredibly important to us!

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California
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January 4th, 2024
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Amazing experience with TopResume, great professional writer was assigned to me and did a fabulous job with my resume and other documents. I like the communication and constant update. This is worth the money in my opinion of you need to update your resume, cover letter etc.

Reason I chose this business:

I chose this service because they have great professional customer service and good ratings.

Date of experience: December 28, 2023

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with TopResume! We're thrilled to hear that you had an amazing experience with our professional writer and appreciated the effective communication and updates. Your satisfaction is our priority, and we're delighted that you find our service worth the investment for updating your resume, cover letter, and other documents.

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Virginia
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April 5th, 2024
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The person I worked with had all updates completed in the timeframe given. She was also very easy to work with.

Reason I chose this business:

I looked up on the www to see the best resume "help" and TopResume was listed as the highest rated.

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Thank you for your feedback! We're pleased to hear that the writer you worked with completed all updates within the given timeframe and was easy to work with. If you have any more feedback or need further assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to support you in any way we can!

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France
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November 26th, 2023

Avoid this company. I tried their top level package that includes resume, generic cover letter, and LinkedIn profile, written by one of their "top 10% writers". The result were poorly written, generic documents. When I reached out and asked for a refund, they only offered to match me with another writer. I pointed out that I had already paid for one of their top writers, and that the documents were useless. But this was to no avail. No refund, just a lot of messages back and forth. This may not be a scam, but an utterly useless service. Chat GPT will write a better resume for you than Top Resume.

Tip for consumers:
Just avoid.

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Nothing was useable.

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Date of experience: November 3, 2023

Thumbnail of user michaeld7221
California
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March 8th, 2024
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I previously used Indeed to help write my resume and I wasn't having any luck getting interviews. I used TopResume and was getting hits on my resume right away.

Reason I chose this business:

Recommended through Dice.

Date of experience: March 8, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Michael,

We appreciate your positive feedback!

It brings us great joy to learn about your excellent experience.

Ensuring your satisfaction is our top priority.

Should you require assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Your support is highly valued!

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Australia
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August 19th, 2023

This has obviously been transferred offshore to non English speakers (as first language). It was full of buzz words - I felt like I was reading a script for an old 70's Batman tv series. Any substance and real examples were removed from the original I sent them. They misinterpreted simple things that I wrote that are very important in my industry, rather than asking for clarification or leaving something as is that they didn't understand. I believe the writer was just trying to pump me up - but basically including a straight out lie.
Other than taking some inspiration from the layout (a slight improvement, but no major changes) I am unlikely to use anything from the resume they sent me. Biggest waste of money ever.

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* TopResume attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond

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Date of experience: July 20, 2023

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Texas
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November 25th, 2022

Got a resume review because it was free. The person who reviewed it was rude in their comments, stating my resume was boring among other truly condescending things. Honestly it's unprofessional. Resumes ARE bland as it is! They also had suggestions that all HR professionals and recruiters have explicitly advised me AGAINST. They don't know what they're talking about.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t use this site.

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Resume review.

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Date of experience: October 26, 2022

Thumbnail of user marcusm271
Oregon
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October 7th, 2021

I've used multiple resume services since 2004! This was my only experience and possibly my worst experience ever with any company.

When I started to apply for jobs I received some negative feed back about the resume. Understanding that resumes if you ask 100 people you will get 85 + opinions, I reached out to my professional contacts being 4 corporate HR contacts and a couple recruiters I'd had 10-15 yr history with. The feedback was consistent overall, that it was too full of buzz words but really said nothing. Parts of the resume they didn't understand.

I reached out very professional like to get a revision. It turned very nasty including from the management team.- name calling, putting me down etc.

Oh did I mention this is probably my 2 bad review ever and I used the service in 2019 but I'm still scared by the experience!

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Date of experience: September 7, 2021

Thumbnail of user lyudmilab7
California
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April 13th, 2020

I'm not sure how they got such high ratings but it did not reflect that in my final copy. There was quite a lot of poor grammatical issues throughout the two pages. I am very disappointed in this company, I spent about $179 for their help, and ended up having to re-write 70% of the cover letter and resume myself anyways. Don't waste your time and money.

Date of experience: March 14, 2020

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Canada
1 review
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March 9th, 2023
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These are high quality Scammers. Avoid them at all cost. They will take someone else's resume and change the name and very small things. After you are not satisfied, good luck reaching them by email or phone

Date of experience: February 7, 2023

Thumbnail of user hurshellh1
Florida
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April 26th, 2022
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For over a month, I have struggled with multiple writers to provide something at least resembling an executive level resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile update.

They have met my every feedback email with a response trying to defend their outputs which read as though a barely-literate eighth grader wrote them. I have had to explain basic English language concepts to them multiple times, and they still do not understand.

They butchered my resume into something that does not even remotely resemble my industry experience, and the cover letter clearly shows the writer has no concept of what my resume reflects that I actually do for a living.

Never would I submit to a potential employer the drivel these people gave me. The employer would think me an utter moron.

Do not waste your money with this place. Their incompetence knows no bounds.

Tip for consumers:
Avoid them like the plague

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Nothing. All worthless

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Date of experience: March 27, 2022

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Malaysia
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November 21st, 2022
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The staff, surely don't have a single clue to write an engineering resume, all she does is to trash talk about my CV as improper wording etc, but eventually submitting to a the exactly same with re-arrange sentences from my CV, and all of the input is wrong, she just simply copy paste and add some useless info not related to my work scope, and to make it worse, she even used the same sentence to my other work experience.

Customer support was not responsive, even during the draft process. You will just waste the seven days limit as they're buying time along the way. They don't even bother to do the correction given.

Definitely easy money.

Tip for consumers:
Use other professional resume services in the market, or else just purchase a resume template from the stock agency, which costs around USD 3-50 each.

Date of experience: October 22, 2022

Thumbnail of user kenk647
California
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May 21st, 2023

This is a terrible product and experience. The first draft of the resume I got back was so far off that giving feedback to the writer on each item I needed changing would have been way more time and effort than just writing it myself in the first place.

The overall quality of language was awkward, grammatically incorrect, and sounded like it was written by someone not fluent in English. Word choices were like someone did a mad-libs exercise with every buzzy cliche business term possible. The proposed format was even more copy than I had started with, with long paragraphs of text.

I ran my original resume and the new Top Resume version through a couple of resume scoring platforms and the Top Resume version scored lower than mine.

I pinged Customer Service twice through the chat and once via email and got no human response.

This was a waste of time.

Date of experience: April 21, 2023

Thumbnail of user ericka141
Kansas
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December 5th, 2023
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The writer I was assigned was very easy to work with & did an excellent job of being willing to listen to my concerns & helped translate my abilities on paper in a professional manner. Well worth the time & investment plus now I'm more confident I will be seeing more interviews coming my way soon.

Reason I chose this business:

I had been looking around to update my resume & your company came up after I applied for a position so I felt that was the sign for me to stop procrastinating.

Date of experience: December 5, 2023

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Erick,

Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're absolutely delighted to hear about your positive experience. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and we genuinely look forward to the opportunity to assist you in the future. If you ever need further assistance, please feel free to reach out.

Your support is incredibly important to us!

Thumbnail of user ajinkyas5
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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April 24th, 2021
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I am an international student already under huge amount of student loans. I paid to get the most expensive services of TopResume, but my resume was completed by an unprofessional person. He made my resume 2 pages long, which is not acceptable in companies with jobs related to Computer Science (my major). He just assembled my resume with the data I provided without giving his inputs or suggestions like, which projects would be preferred on my resume. I think it was a huge waste of my money which I earned through hard work as I am still using the resume I created.

Tip for consumers:
Not recommending the services of TopResume.

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Date of experience: March 25, 2021

Thumbnail of user stephanieb485
Michigan
1 review
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July 24th, 2019

Just spent $219 on a resume rewrite and cover letter and they were no better than what I could do myself. I have used the new formatted resumes for about 30 job postings and received little response for jobs I am qualified for.
I would not recommend using their service.

Date of experience: July 24, 2019

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Stephanie,

We were unable to locate an order using the name on your review. Please reach out to support@topresume.com and reference this message so we may assist you.

Thumbnail of user brians3504
South Carolina
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April 11th, 2023
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I ordered a resume and cover letter and expedited 48-hour service for an additional fee. Services as of yet have not been performed, and there has been zero communication from Top Resume except a pop-up to inform me the writer is "busy".

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Date of experience: March 12, 2023

Thumbnail of user davidh9901
California
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March 26th, 2024
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My writer was very professional and helpful. All key point were highlighted and wording are well used

Reason I chose this business:

Used TopResume in the past and was able to land a job

Date of experience: March 16, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi David,

I'm pleased to know that you had a positive experience collaborating with your writer.

Should you require additional assistance in the future, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Your support is highly valuable to us!

Thumbnail of user eileenq5
Washington
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March 12th, 2019

I was connected with a very talented writer who listened and understood my needs. I went from getting "thanks, but no thanks" form letters from automated services, to getting interviews then a great offer within three weeks.

Date of experience: March 5, 2019

Thumbnail of user katherinew766
Florida
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January 9th, 2024
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I was able to get my professional resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile makeover within just a couple days! Everything looked awesome and my resume writer, Amanda F, was very professional and knowledgable. I can't wait to see how much this helps me with my job search!

Reason I chose this business:

Best affordable package overall

Date of experience: January 9, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Katherine,

I'm delighted to hear that your collaboration with your writer was a positive one. If you ever need further assistance down the road, please feel free to reach out.

Your support means a lot to us!

Thumbnail of user karenh4496
Massachusetts
2 reviews
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November 2nd, 2023
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This was a very nicely written and formatted resume. They were able to summarize a lot of information. I had a difficult time doing it myself because it's hard to delete jobs or projects that you put so much effort into.

Very good, solved my problem!

Reason I chose this business:

It was the most popular.

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Date of experience: November 2, 2023

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Karen,

Thank you for taking the time to share your positive feedback with us! We truly appreciate your kind words and are delighted to hear about your experience. We strive to provide excellent service, and we're thrilled to know that we met your expectations. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and we look forward to serving you again in the future. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you once again for choosing us!

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Australia
1 review
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October 25th, 2020

I was very surprised as I expected a personal service making my CV better than it was before, whereas what TopResume sent me looks like something coming out of a "google translate" type automated tool. The CV has lost all of its specificity and multiple points are grossly incorrect. I have exchanged multiple times with the reviewer, but there were too many comments. Maybe this service would have been good if I had no CV to begin with, but in my case, I have lost 200$ in a scam. I have asked for a refund but have not received it yet.

Date of experience: September 25, 2020

Thumbnail of user stephenl227
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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November 25th, 2018

The writer assigned to me ignored my request to reposition my resume for a career change. I've repeatedly questioned her edits and received no explanation. My conclusion is that the writer didn't know what she was doing.

I even submitted one of her revisions into TopResume's evaluation tool which reinforced that the writer had not delivered the promise of helping with career changes.

Date of experience: November 25, 2018

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Stephen,

We are sorry for the experience you have had. We hold all of our writers to a high standard and certainly implore them to follow each client's requests. Please email support@topresume.com with reference to this email so that we can properly assist you. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Texas
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November 9th, 2016

At first I was assigned someone who is not familiar with my career field of advertising creative professional. I contacted my rep and she immediately arranged for customer service to assign me a new writer. My new writer was not only familiar with my industry, but she rewrote my resume in a way that I felt made it much stronger. I will recommend TopResume to everyone whom I mentor when they are trying to rewrite their CV.

Tip for consumers:
If you are not happy with the writing in your resume, but sure to contact customer service. They are extremely helpful and will do everything possible to make you happy.

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Date of experience: November 7, 2016

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PG
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February 26th, 2024
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TopResume matched me with an expert writer in record time and this writer was able to capture all of my skills and experience in my resume and make me marketable to recruiters.

Reason I chose this business:

I saw the reviews from previous customers and figured I should try out the professional service since I myself have not had the time to able to revamp my resume and I have to say they did an excellent job!

Date of experience: February 26, 2024

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Chris W. – TopResume Rep

Hi Rachel,

We appreciate your positive feedback!

It brings us great joy to learn about your excellent experience.

Ensuring your satisfaction is our top priority.

Should you require assistance in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Your support is highly valued!

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TopResume is the largest resume-writing service in the world, and writes and analyzes more resumes and LinkedIn profiles than any other service.

TopResume pairs a deep knowledge of hiring techniques with a compassionate network of professional writers to craft hundreds of thousands of resumes every year. Rooted in the science of resume-writing, TopResume aims to empower individuals to advance in their careers using proven methods of job-targeting and storytelling.

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