Can You Pay Someone to Find You a Job? What You Actually Get

By Maryam House, Founder & COO, ResumeYourWay INC

Yes, you can pay someone to find you a job. What you're buying is the search: somebody finding the roles, rewriting your resume for each one, applying, and chasing the hiring manager, every day, while you watch it happen. You aren't buying the job itself. Nobody can sell you that.

What you get when you pay someone to find you a job

Your resume and your LinkedIn profile get built first. That order is on purpose. There's no point sending a resume out every day if it isn't the one that gets the call.

Then the campaign runs every day, weekends included.

• Finding roles across job boards, company career pages and industry boards
• Researching the company before anything goes out
• Rewriting your resume for each posting
• Submitting through the company portal or by direct email
• Emailing the hiring manager directly from your job-search address
• Following up on Day 3 and Day 7 until you get a response or the role closes

You also keep your comprehensive Master Resume, your full career documented, whatever happens with the search.

We handle the follow-up with employers. You shouldn't be chasing anyone.

You're paying for a search, so don't buy a count

Be careful with any service that sells you a number of applications. A number is easy to hit. You hit it by applying to roles you were never going to get.

Our commitment runs the other way. How many applications go out depends on what the market posts. What doesn't change is that your search gets run every day and you hear from us every day, whether that day turned up a lot of roles that fit or none.

On a thin day, your update shows the closest roles we found and exactly why each one missed. Then you decide. Widen the criteria, or hold the filter and keep going. We never pad your numbers with roles you couldn't actually interview for.

If you want that work off your plate for a month, the Job Search Accelerator is a 30-day campaign run for you every day, weekends included. It's built for people already running their own search who want a team doing the volume work, so what's left on your side is the interviews and your own networking.

You see every application as it goes out

You get access to the job-search inbox running your campaign. Every application and every employer reply is in front of you as it lands, and your daily update tells you what went out and what came back.

If a company's careers page looks quiet, that's normal. Some employer portals hold a submission until a verification step clears, and some postings close within hours of going up. Ask us and we'll show you the record.

You set the targets at the start: the roles, industries and locations you want, your salary floor, and any company we should never contact. Add a name to that list any day and it comes off. Not paused. Off.

You can keep applying on your own, and plenty of people do. Tell us first, so no employer hears from you twice.

Where it stops

We can't guarantee you a job, because the hiring decision belongs to the employer. We've served 110,000+ clients since 2014 and we don't promise any of them a hire. If someone promises you one, treat that as your warning sign.

We won't invent qualifications. When an application asks a screening question, we answer it honestly. We never check a box you can't back up, because the interview is where that box gets tested.

We don't press submit on your federal applications. We run the federal search: we find the announcements, check that you genuinely meet each one's requirements, build your resume to that announcement's page limit, and prep you for its questionnaire when it has one. The apply step stays yours. You submit from your own USAJOBS account, and where an announcement includes the essay questions, those are yours to write and to certify as your own words. We help you get ready for them and we never write them as you. Private-sector and contractor roles, we submit for you.

Pick the campaign that matches the search you have

The 2-Day Job Search Trial is for seeing the work before you commit to more. We build your resume and LinkedIn profile, then spend two full days running your search, and you get a full activity report both days. It's best for private-sector professional roles. It doesn't cover C-level or senior director roles, and federal roles run in the full campaigns. No contract.

The Job Search Accelerator is the 30-day campaign described above.

The Job Search Professional runs 60 days with a dedicated strategist. It adds recruiter network engagement, interview requests handed to you with prep notes, salary negotiation guidance when offers arrive, and weekly strategy calls. It's built for people who have to search hard while still performing in the job they have. Outreach goes out from your job-search address, so your current employer won't hear about it from us.

Directors, VPs and C-suite candidates should look at the Job Search Executive: Elite C-Suite campaign instead. It runs 45 days, and your identity stays protected until you approve disclosure.

If you aren't sure what to target yet, the Trial is the low-commitment place to find out, since target role identification is part of it.

For the market side of this, read our piece on why mass apply strategies are failing.

Start with the search you actually have

If your evenings are going to applications and the calls still aren't coming, the Job Search Accelerator puts thirty days of that work on someone else's desk, weekends included. If you'd rather see proof first, the 2-Day Job Search Trial is two days of the same work with a report at the end of each one.

If you're not sure a campaign is right for you at all, book the free 15-minute career strategy call: https://calendly.com/resumeyourway/career-guidance-call-complimentary-15-minute-s-clone. If you don't need one, we'll tell you.