Career UpgraderReviews of careerupgrader.net

I worked with Neil to create the perfect resume that I use to apply to jobs. Neil was very detailed and took the time to make sure that my resume was complete and compatible with the jobs that I was most interested in.

Neil did a great job deconstructing my resume and rebuilding for more impact. Same with my Linked-In profile. Nicely done.

Neil at Career Upgrader was incredibly patient with helping me think through professional next steps and focus areas. He took my good, old-fashioned resume and turned it into a modern, multi-focal template that I can use for my preferred job and any others down the road. He gave great advice on not only thinking things through for myself, but also how to then tell my story to various audiences. For me, Career Upgraders were not a resume ghost-writer service but a soundboard, vision guide, marketing expert, and copy-editor. While I didn't use everything delivered as my final product as my own, I did use absolutely everything to guide my creativity and writing for marketing myself professionally. Lastly, I had a family emergency arise during my work with Career Upgraders and they happily accommodated my schedule changes and delayed responses, as well as, provided some much needed professional encouragement to balance family needs with professional development. Great help!

I reached out for a resume review on LinkedIn which is how I met Neil. My position had just been eliminated at my company and I felt it was about time to get someone to evaluate my resume. Neil reached out to me, I could not be more pleased with him! He has been a sounding board, a mentor, a career coach, and a million other things to me over the past six weeks. His recommendations are insightful and extremely helpful. We have worked together to ensure that I am getting what I want out of this partnership in my career. You only get out of something what you put into it. I have read the other reviews and I have not found them to be true at all. Neil has been incredible to me through one of the most difficult times I have faced so far and I cannot say thank you enough!

Did not provide any of the services I was supposed to get. Neil said his placement success was 96%, so I could be one of the unlucky 4%; however I got 4 positions on my own with my resume. He provided countless excuses to defer accountability and never met deadlines. Even the resume he rewrote for me was a literal copy paste with a new format.

I contracted Career Upgrader after being unemployed during the pandemic and having no luck in finding a new job. Career Upgrader sent me a proposal with the details of their services and we had what they call a Clarity Call to ask questions and better understand their services. Unfortunately, the services I received were far from what they said they will provide. Here are some details in regards to my experience: 1. I did not receive the placement services as per the explanation I received prior to purchasing the services. - No regular meetings/calls were scheduled to provide status on the progress and work completed. I only received a few emails with information about LinkedIn connections requests/calls. - Availability to work on the career placement services seemed to be very limited with periods of times being 100% unavailable. - No leads were provided for potential jobs that match my qualifications and career goals. - No informal networking conversations were coordinated to assist with the job search process. - No informational calls were coordinated to discuss potential job fits with local companies. - No proactive communication to check on my job search progress or intent to continue building a professional relationship. - No interviews (informal or formal) with the companies that were told to have existing relationships with Career Upgrader. 2. Coaching sessions were strictly based on pre-existing documents and were not tailored to my career situation. Additional time to ask questions was strictly limited to remaining call time (if any) after the documents were explained. 3. LinkedIn Profile and Executive Resume were not delivered as per the promised dates. Multiple follow- ups were required before receiving them. My resume was not re-written as per the service explanation but re-formatted to match standard ATS. I was looking forward to working with Career Upgrader and having a great experience, specially while going through such difficult times due to the pandemic. It's disappointing and frustrating to pay so much money when you don't have a job, and end up dealing with businesses with such poor services and ethics. I wish I have had seen honest reviews before contracting Career Upgrader, but the ones I found at the time were mostly from entrepreneurs and not real job seekers.

At this point I don't have a good report. it could be because of all of the issues going on at this time... weather and my mothers health issues.

I really wanted to like Career Upgrader and Neil's service. However, there were far too many areas that fell flat - especially for the higher-than-average cost I paid. 1. I did not ever fully receive the active job placement service as promised and paid for. At the beginning, this wasn't 100% Neil's fault as it seemed he had a troublesome employee. After said employee was let go, Neil promised me that I would receive this service, however I was still never sent any leads as was promised. 2. Communication was very clunky. I purchased 4 coaching sessions total - and I had to proactively reach out to Neil to ask what the next steps were each time. A little bit more direction and guidance would have been very much appreciated. 3. The process was very unclear. Specifically with the active job placement, I had to ask several times what is happening, and what is supposed to be happening. The process wasn't explained to me until I asked. And by the time we discovered that Neil's recruiter was not working on the job placement service for me, it had already been over 4 weeks. In the world we live in now where the job market is so tight and competitive, timing and speed is crucial. So this delay was totally unacceptable. 4. I had one un-used coaching session, and had no plan on using it because I've been so disappointed with this service. I asked for a refund, to which Neil replied that all sales are final. I understand that each business has the right to their own refund policy, but as a customer that paid several thousands of dollars for services that were not received and underperformed, I really wish that Neil would have provided some sort of recourse. --- I highly encourage anyone who is considering hiring a "professional" career coaching and job hunting service to consider the level of professionalism (or lack thereof) from this experience.