IF your resume has been sitting on your to-do list forever, or IF you know that it, in its current form, isn't doing you a bit of good with employers and IF you know yourself and that you can't just read a resume book or two and poof! yours is done to perfection, then save yourself the grief and get it done right.

Definitely DO take referrals. And check that the writer is a specialist in YOUR specialty if your referrer isn't in your industry. It’s like a good mechanic, once you find a good one, you pass the word around. This one sounds great. I wouldn't necessarily refer my resume writer because he was pretty weird, but it still got the darn thing off my to-do list, it’s much better than what I had, and I DID get a better job with it.

This is the type of thing that I SAVE my money FOR - so I can afford to have the important things done by professionals. Like, I wouldn't go to the cheapest dentist, know what I mean? Meanwhile I put banana peels and coffee grounds in my garden to save a little cash on fertilizer...