This seems pretty cool. I actually had an idea for almost exactly this.
The revenue model writes itself too. Thousands of people pay resume professionals for editing help every day. JobSpice could have a third party network of resume pros ready to help, and take a cut of the payments.
So it's free to write your awesome looking resume, and for a reasonable fee it's trivial to have a resume doctor look it over.
The consumer business model that you described is a small part of JobSpice's potential. The goldmine comes from getting companies to use JobSpice to recruit new hires. All individuals want to create beautiful resumes but once the resume is created there's no telling where the individual goes with said resume.
JobSpice has the resume meta-data at its finger tips. The logical next step would be to get companies to offer jobs to JobSpice's users.
This idea is not new, but their implementation is new. Now I believe that some web ideas can differentiate truly based on "usability". Same market, many competitors, but if you have killer usability, then you've a chance to win.
Not much different from our last LaunchBox Digital -funded venture Razume.com. We had nice "review layers" as our unique feature. In effect, community reviewed resumes.
This space is really hard. Revenue model certainly does not write itself, when there's dozens of similar free services around. We tried by pushing to SaaS to B2B (Career Centers), but ultimately didn't get the funding which we would've needed to bring support & sales to acceptable level for big players such as universities.
The revenue model writes itself too. Thousands of people pay resume professionals for editing help every day. JobSpice could have a third party network of resume pros ready to help, and take a cut of the payments.
So it's free to write your awesome looking resume, and for a reasonable fee it's trivial to have a resume doctor look it over.