Julie, thanks for commenting and for retweeting this post.

The thing is, it’s completely understandable to me why job seekers have a difficult time trusting us as professionals. Unless they’ve been referred to us by someone they trust, we may be an entirely unknown entity to them. They are taking a risk, and should ask the kind of questions (generally speaking) suggested in the WSJ article.

It doesn’t help that some people who may have had a bad experience with a bad resume writer, make generalizations and lump together all of us, good and bad. That’s never fair to do.

You’re so right. It’s been my experience that the legitimate ones among us are committed to helping people.

The best we can do is, as you say, continue raising our profile by demonstrating our expertise and value through whatever online and offline channels are available to us.

Ciao!
Meg