For reasons, I found myself in need of a current resume earlier this week.
As many would, I first searched the Indiana Jonesesque pile of paper and electronic files I have amassed to see if I could find a past resume I could start with, but I came up with nothing.
So as many would afterward, I turned to the Internet to find a resume template.
My internet search led me to myperfectresume.com. I looked that site over, and a few others, before I went back to them to build a resume.
They make the job pretty easy, providing templates and even offering artificial intelligence services to write for me (hard pass on that, thankyouverymuch).
I spent probably an hour on the resume. Then I tried to download it.
Should have seen this coming: They wanted me to sign up for a subscription service in order to do so. Hard pass.
Sure, it wasn't all that much money. And I had spent that hour on their website making the resume. The good ol' Sunken Cost Fallacy popped up hard.
So I took screenshots and redid the resume in Microsoft Word and it didn't cost me a penny.
But myperfectresume.com has my email address. So this kind of thing is ongoing:
(Sorry for the blurriness. I wanted to capture their email in one image, so it's been blown up a bit here. Maybe it'll look better when it's published.)
Clearly, putting the hand out is something I should have expected from them. And putting it at the end of the process certainly brings in the sunk cost concept -- I've already invested time in building a resume, and I can see it there it's all done and pretty and I really want to be done with this, so give in and give them money is the end result. Except I didn't.
Unsubscribing now, of course.
And even in the unsubscribing the sunk cost arises: They warn me potential employers won't be able to contact me through their service. As if employers are trolling through myperfectresume.com for potential hires.
No comments:
Post a Comment