Resumemaker with Kaplan's Career Planning 6.0

Rating:
Summary: Better Than Nothing
Review: As a fan of other products with the Kaplan name, I grabbed Resume Maker off the shelf the moment that I found it. My mistake! The software is on the cutting edge of very early Windows programs. It is anti-intuitive, very slow, and completely unforgiving of any error. Rather than the software working for you, you will work for the software. As one example of too many, a card (a basic sub-element of the resume) will not print from one page to the next; you just have a large blank spot at the top of the second page. However, with a great deal of formatting and editing, you can work around this problem. My question: what fool thinks that the consumer buys such a product for the thrill of spending hours outsmarting the software? I do not recall the last time that I was this disappointed with any software. The only two good points that I can offer are: [1] Resume Marker is better than nothing and [2] my mistake in buying this product cost me less than $30.00. (By the way, if you have this product, import whatever resume that you have into Microsoft Word, clean it up, and get on with the job search.)

Rating:
Summary: Better Than Nothing
Review: As a fan of other products with the Kaplan name, I grabbed Resume Maker off the shelf the moment that I found it. My mistake! The software is on the cutting edge of very early Windows programs. It is anti-intuitive, very slow, and completely unforgiving of any error. Rather than the software working for you, you will work for the software. As one example of too many, a card (a basic sub-element of the resume) will not print from one page to the next; you just have a large blank spot at the top of the second page. However, with a great deal of formatting and editing, you can work around this problem. My question: what fool thinks that the consumer buys such a product for the thrill of spending hours outsmarting the software? I do not recall the last time that I was this disappointed with any software. The only two good points that I can offer are: [1] Resume Marker is better than nothing and [2] my mistake in buying this product cost me less than $30.00. (By the way, if you have this product, import whatever resume that you have into Microsoft Word, clean it up, and get on with the job search.)

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing!
Review: The product conflicted with other software I had installed on my computer andtheir tech support basically told me I was outta luck. They offer an "upgrade"... they don't offer the download version in their upgrade (their customer service told me I was outta luck). The Career counselor is not all it cracks up to be...very hokey and somewhat cheesy. Inputting into the program (once I get it running and "debugged") is fairly easy but the formats aren't very attractive. I was able to import it into my Word Processor (MSW) but it lost all formatting when I imported it. This was a very disappointing piece of software.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing!
Review: The product conflicted with other software I had installed on my computer andtheir tech support basically told me I was outta luck. They offer an "upgrade"... they don't offer the download version in their upgrade (their customer service told me I was outta luck). The Career counselor is not all it cracks up to be...very hokey and somewhat cheesy. Inputting into the program (once I get it running and "debugged") is fairly easy but the formats aren't very attractive. I was able to import it into my Word Processor (MSW) but it lost all formatting when I imported it. This was a very disappointing piece of software.