Resume rewriting for people in your former industry

How it works

Resume services are a commodity when they're generic. They're not when the writer spent ten years in the client's field and knows which three things a hiring manager scans for. If you've worked in nursing, logistics, hospitality management, accounting, trades, teaching or anything with its own hiring language, you can rewrite resumes for people in that field better than any general service. Post in the industry's forums and groups, show a before-and-after, and price per document.

What it actually takes

• Genuine insider knowledge of what gets people hired in one specific field.
• Clear writing and the ability to interview someone for thirty minutes and extract what they actually achieved.
• A template or two that pass the applicant-tracking software most employers use.
• A short sample rewrite, anonymised, to show.

Where it goes wrong

• Trying to serve everyone. Your value is the niche; a "resumes for anyone" page competes with a thousand others.
• Unlimited revisions. Two rounds, in writing, in the price.
• Promising interviews. You're improving a document, not fixing a market.
• The ceiling is low because each job is small and the client doesn't come back for years. It's honest money, not a career, unless you add interview coaching or outplacement work for companies.