Third-party job-search support companies—with resume writers to help you polish your CV and headhunters promising to introduce you to hiring managers—seem to be everywhere in this gloomy job market. The services they provide vary tremendously, not only in quality but also in their effect on your career once you’ve put yourself in their hands.In this month’s “Tooling Up,” I’ll review the more common kinds of service providers you can run into and shed light on their business models. Like buyers of any other product or service, those who partake need to remember the old expression “caveat emptor”—buyer beware.
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