Spent $400 on a career coach and it actually paid off in 3 months

I was stuck in retail management for 6 years and kept applying for jobs with no callbacks. My resume was a mess and I had no idea what I was doing wrong. Finally dropped $400 on a career coach in Phoenix who specialized in helping retail people move into corporate roles. She told me my resume was just listing duties instead of showing results. I rewrote everything to focus on numbers like how I cut inventory waste by 15% and boosted team sales 20% in one quarter. Got interviews within two weeks and landed a job at a distribution company making $12k more a year. Has anyone else tried a coach or just went the DIY route with YouTube?

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murphy.abby22d ago

The numbers thing was a total game changer for me too.

lucasschmidt22d ago

My buddy Mark tried it last week and said his whole workflow changed overnight.

jasonf1722d ago

Take this with a grain of salt, but I've seen way too many people jump on the "workflow changed overnight" bandwagon and then quietly go back to their old ways a month later. Mark might have had a good first day, but that's just the novelty wearing off. I tried a similar tool last year and for the first week it felt like magic, but after that I started noticing it made more mistakes than I caught and I spent extra time double checking everything. The numbers thing Abby mentioned is probably just confirmation bias too, people remember the wins and forget the times it messed up. Give it six months and see if Mark is still singing its praises.

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