I've been unemployed for about 4 months right now. I didn't think it would be this hard but I've been fortunate to have been able to have interviews up to this point and decent success with recruiters but the process is starting to wear thin on me and I'm needing to re-evaluate my outlook right now. In the interviews I've had I generally get told I'm too much of one thing or not enough of another and things just haven't worked out. In between all of that I did get an offer and accept it only for the company to make cutbacks and restructure the job into something I didn't feel was a good career choice. I know various career counseling services will review and change my resume again and give additional coaching on networking and interviewing but I'm really struggling to know if its worth it to drop a ton of money on these services.
I think my biggest challenge is networking and getting to know people from the various companies to get my applications noticed. It just seems so hard to find out who to reach out to when all of the companies just seem to hide behind their online application systems.
I guess I just needed to vent for a bit. I'm just curious of anyone's experience with these types of services. Can they really make a difference in helping me find something relatively soon for what will essentially be a few thousand dollars for their all inclusive package to help with everything or could I just be throwing my money away?
I think my biggest challenge is networking and getting to know people from the various companies to get my applications noticed. It just seems so hard to find out who to reach out to when all of the companies just seem to hide behind their online application systems.
I guess I just needed to vent for a bit. I'm just curious of anyone's experience with these types of services. Can they really make a difference in helping me find something relatively soon for what will essentially be a few thousand dollars for their all inclusive package to help with everything or could I just be throwing my money away?