LiveCareer Review
An honest look at LiveCareer's pricing, ATS checker and templates, and what ResumeFox does differently.
What each one actually costs over twelve months
LiveCareer's trial price moved across the sources checked for this page ($1.95 to $2.95), which this site already treats as promotional pricing rather than a fixed number for Bold-family products. What held steady across two independent sources was the renewal shape: $23.95 every 4 weeks, or $71.40 paid once a year. ResumeFox is a different kind of plan: 7 days free, then $79 a month, and that price buys the same resume work plus a career professional you can write to. Read the two cards as what they are, a builder subscription and tools with a person included.
- A real ATS score checker (ResumeCheck) with click-to-fix links, included free
- No self-service cancel button; cancellation requires contacting support by phone, email or chat
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com
- Standards from 80,000+ resumes written by real US career writers, plus tailoring, tracking, job sourcing and every download
- 6 month job offer guarantee, and nothing is charged during the 7 free days
LiveCareer's own pricing page would not load directly in this research session; the figures above are cross-referenced from two independent reviews that agree closely, plus a third that shows a lower trial price and a higher monthly price. Confirm the exact price and renewal terms on the checkout screen before entering a card.
The full side-by-side comparison
Grouped by what actually matters: where the writing comes from, whether the file survives the software, whether the resume gets aimed at the job you want, and what it costs to keep using.
A half-filled circle means the feature exists but with a real limitation, described in the cell.
More templates is not the same as more good templates
A large share of the designs these builders promote use two columns, a headshot slot, or skills drawn as dots and bars. Those choices are the reason a resume arrives shredded: the sidebar gets read straight across into the middle of your job history, and a skills graphic says nothing once the picture is gone.
ResumeFox ships 10 templates plus a US federal layout. Not one has a sidebar, a photo or a chart. They differ in typography and emphasis, never in whether they parse.
- Whether a parser reads your name, email, phone and dates
- Whether anything is trapped in a table, column or image
- Named problems, not a grade out of 100
What each one is genuinely good and bad at
A genuinely useful ATS checker and a big template library, from the same company behind Resume Now and MyPerfectResume. Most reviewers rate the product itself well; the billing pattern is where a real minority of 1-star reviews concentrate.
- ResumeCheck scans 30+ issues with click-to-fix links, included on the free plan
- Cheapest annual price on this comparison: $71.40/year
- Cover letter builder auto-syncs from your resume
- A large template library across three style categories
- Trial price varies by source, $1.95 to $2.95; confirm at checkout
- No self-service cancel button; you have to contact support to cancel
- 19% of its 23,834 Trustpilot reviews are 1-star, disproportionately about billing
- No job-search matching, tailoring to a posting, LinkedIn help, company-specific interview prep, or application tracker
Built by a resume-writing firm rather than a template shop, and sold as one plan with a career coach included. The standards come from real work, not a phrase library, and the plan covers the whole job search: a person to ask, tailoring, tracking and sourcing, not just the document.
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com, with unlimited written messages and a $20 30-minute call whenever you want one
- Standards drawn from 80,000+ hand-written resumes by 100+ CPRW-certified US writers and recruiters
- Built around targeting: per-posting tailoring, a matching cover letter, job sourcing, interview prep, LinkedIn and an application tracker
- 6 month job offer guarantee: If you have paid for our service for 6 consecutive months, and you have not received a job offer, we'll continue to work with you for 6 additional months at no cost.
- $79 a month, several times what a builder subscription costs
- 10 templates against LiveCareer’s larger library, deliberately, but it is fewer
- Coaching is written messages; a 30-minute phone call is a $20 add-on rather than part of the price
- One plan, month to month: there is no prepay-for-a-year price
See your resume rebuilt against standards from 80,000+ real resumes
Upload the resume you already have. We rewrite it against the standards our writers built over 80,000 resumes, then help you target it, application by application, instead of leaving you with just a document.
Questions people ask before they pick one
Still stuck? Email a human: someone answers, usually within one business day.
Is LiveCareer legit?
Yes, it's a real, long-running product (the LiveCareer brand dates to 2005) owned by Bold LLC, the same company behind Resume Now and MyPerfectResume. It holds a 4.3★ 'Excellent' rating on Trustpilot from 23,834 reviews. Read the 1-star share before you commit, though: 19% of those reviews, a real minority, describe billing surprises and a cancellation process that requires contacting support rather than a button in your account.
How much does LiveCareer cost?
The 14-day trial has been reported anywhere from $1.95 to $2.95 depending on the source. After the trial it renews at $23.95 every 4 weeks unless you cancel, or you can choose Annual for $71.40 a year. A standalone Monthly plan around $5.95–$7.95 was also reported. Confirm the live price at checkout.
Is ResumeFox cheaper than LiveCareer?
No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. LiveCareer is $23.95 every 4 weeks, or $71.40 for a year. ResumeFox is one plan, 7 days free then $79 a month, which is $948 over twelve months. What that price buys is a career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com with unlimited written messages, alongside the resume rebuild, per-posting tailoring, a matching cover letter, job sourcing, interview prep, LinkedIn guidance, offer negotiation, the application tracker and the 6 month job offer guarantee.
Does LiveCareer use real resume writers?
LiveCareer's builder runs on AI suggestions drawn from a large library of pre-written phrases and 'tailored recommended entries', not a stated volume of resumes written by hand for individual clients. ResumeFox's standards come from 80,000+ resumes written by hand by 100+ CPRW-certified US writers and recruiters at TopStack Resume.
Is LiveCareer the same company as Resume Now or MyPerfectResume?
They share an owner. LiveCareer, Resume Now and MyPerfectResume are all Bold LLC brands, alongside Zety, Monster and CareerBuilder. The builders and template libraries differ; the four-week billing cadence and the entry-price-then-renewal shape do not.
Does LiveCareer give a score, or a percentage?
Yes. Its ResumeCheck tool is a genuinely useful, integrated checker that scans 30+ issues and links straight to the field to fix, but it still returns a 1–100 numeric score. ResumeFox never does this: it names specific, checkable problems on the readability half, and uses bands, never a number, on the fit-to-a-posting half.
What happens if I don't like it?
LiveCareer advertises a 100% money-back guarantee on the trial fee, but independent reviews describe real friction getting a cancellation or refund processed, and there's no self-service cancel button in the account. ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days, so cancelling inside them costs you nothing, and you can cancel anytime from your account. After that, the 6 month job offer guarantee applies: If you have paid for our service for 6 consecutive months, and you have not received a job offer, we'll continue to work with you for 6 additional months at no cost.
How we compared these
Pricing is read from each provider's own checkout or pricing page. Feature claims are checked against each product's live interface. Where we could not confirm something ourselves, it is not on this page.
Where numbers disagree
Entry prices in this category differ across landing pages and promotions. Where that happens we give the observed range rather than one figure, and say so.
Our disclosure
This page is published by ResumeFox, one of the products compared. We have an obvious interest in your choosing it. That is why every claim about a competitor is one you can check on their own site, and why we name the rows they win.
- LiveCareer review with pricing (Resume Genius): read 2026-09-23
- LiveCareer review with pricing (Betterteam): read 2026-09-23
- LiveCareer review (Enhancv): read 2026-09-23
- LiveCareer review (ConsumersAdvocate.org): read 2026-09-23
- LiveCareer cancellation process (LegalClarity): read 2026-09-23
- LiveCareer on Trustpilot: read 2026-09-23
- BOLD (parent company) About page, brand list: read 2026-09-23
- HR Dive: Rocket Resume antitrust suit against Bold: read 2026-09-23
ResumeFox Full Access is $79 a month, and your first 7 days are free. We take your card to start the trial; cancel before it ends and you are not charged. A 30-minute call with your coach is $20 whenever you want one. Cancel anytime.