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Hello r/SaaS . I have a question regarding a pivot to outplacement services. For context, I’ve been running a resume optimisation tool for a while, a tool that tailors your resume to a specific job description instead of sending the same generic one to every posting, it kind of takes what is relevant from your experience and adapts the pitch to ague why is worth interviewing you. I worked very hard on keeping the resume grounded on reality and focusing on what is relevant for the given application, in contrast with other vibe coded solutions and random AI prompts out there. I’ve been trying to pivot it into some kind of outplacement play. The way I see it, traditional outplacement, the coaching call and help you with a resume PDF thing some companies buy when they lay people off, doesn't fit anymore for about 99% of roles (high education market). Here's my reasoning. A coach can no longer help you, long gone are the days were an individual would careful consider your application. Job postings get so many applicants right now that the odds of any application landing an interview are very small. Thus the help of an expert helping you frame your experience correctly is no longer useful. (People spray-and-pray now, and there are tools that apply thousands of times, that I quite dislike). But if you can meaningfully raise the odds per application, tailor it well enough that it actually gets read and considered, you don't need to spray and pray anymore. You can just apply to the roles that genuinely fit what you're good at and what you actually want. This is more helpful as an outplacement package, than any outplacement service out there. I've talked to a handful of HR leaders about this, and honestly it hasn't landed the way I expected. They keep telling me they value the 1-to-1 coaching calls, the human part of outplacement, more than I gave them credit for, I believed on paying for this to just be a “greenwashing strategy” but that’s not what I’m getting from them. I think that's partly on me: I've been positioning this as outplacement, when it isn't really that? It's trying to replace the part where they get stuck, applying and only hearing silence, what happens after the outplacement services have completed their job. Lastly, I want this pivot to work for two reasons: Ethically makes sense. This aligns the job seeker incentives with the project's lifeline, the faster they find a new job, the faster I stop providing the services, and margins grow. Compared to individuals, paying the incentive can become expanding their agony (kind of like Tinder once you pay). The customer life time value v.s. cost of acquisition are better. People will stop paying as soon as they find a job, if I do my work well enough the ratio can be less than one. With companies this can become recurring value. So, what do you think? Where am I wrong here? And if the human touch really is what companies are paying for, how would you a

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/17 22:58:50