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Rant: I spent $400 on a career coaching program and all I got was generic advice
Signed up for a 6 week program in Austin that promised to 'transform my resume' and instead got a fill-in-the-blank template and a guy who kept pushing his own consulting services, has anyone else fallen for these expensive coaching setups?
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felix_black1mo ago
Man the Austin career coach scene is wild, I dropped $300 on a guy off South Congress who was supposed to help me pivot from retail to tech, and he literally just gave me a list of LinkedIn keywords he copied from a blog. My roommate did one of those 8 week resume programs back in 2022 and the guy spent half the sessions trying to upsell her on his $600 "executive branding package" that was basically a Canva template. What really gets me is these programs charge like theyre offering some secret sauce when its all just basic advice you could get from a free YouTube video or a library book. The worst part is they know people like us are desperate for a job so they push that anxiety hard. Youre better off finding a local mutual aid group or a free workshop at the library honestly, way less polished but way more real.
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the_elizabeth1mo ago
Did you try looking at the free resources through your local library? @felix_black is right, I found a free workshop at the Austin Public Library that actually helped me rewrite my resume better than any paid program I'd tried before.
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jamesf411mo ago
Oh man, yeah the library workshops are where it's at! I hit up this free 2 hour session at the San Antonio Library last year and the lady running it actually sat down with me and redlined my resume right there on the spot. She caught all these little formatting things I never would've noticed, like using the wrong kind of bullet points or putting my job duties instead of my actual results. Plus she gave me this whole list of local job fairs and hiring events that I had no idea existed. Way better than any of those online courses where they just record a webinar and call it done.
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