Build and edit a resume

Making a resume, changing what it says, and deleting it, all in Resume Builder. Resumes aimed at one posting are built inside that application instead: Tailor your resume for a job.

Before you start

• Uploading needs the CV as a PDF or DOCX. Other formats stop at a browser alert, "Only PDF and DOCX files are accepted."
• Editing is desktop work. A phone shows a resume and asks you to switch machines to change it.
• Starter (free) accounts can build a limited number of resumes; see pricing.

Start a resume

1. Open Resume in the sidebar. The table, titled Resume Builder, holds everything you have built or uploaded.
2. Press Build Resume at the top right. The dialog is headed Start by uploading your existing resume, with a drop zone and, under an "or", Build manually from scratch.

3. From a file: drag your CV onto "Choose a file or drop it here" or press Browse files, then press Next. Next stays greyed out until a file is chosen, the usual reason it looks broken.
4. From nothing: press Build manually from scratch. It reads "Generating template for your resume..." for a moment, then the editor opens on an empty resume.

Edit the content

Controls fill the left half of the editor, a live preview of the printed page the right. Select edit content. There is no save button: FirstResume stores what you typed about a second after you stop. Click the pencil beside the name at the top left to rename the file, since downloads take that name.

Personal Information holds Last Name, First Name, Other Name, Email, Phone Number and Linkedin, plus an Image field on photo templates. Professional Summary is a text box with a Generate button that rewrites it with AI.

Below those sits each section. The drag handle moves one up or down the page, the heading is click-to-edit, and the expander opens its entries. Every entry carries a title, Sub Title, Supplement Info, Location, Start Date and End Date (the picker offers Present), and draggable Bullet Points. Add bullet point adds a line, Add Information adds an entry, Delete entry removes one, and Add Section creates a New Section holding a New Item. The last accordion, Skills, Language and Interests, keeps lists for skills, certifications, languages and interests.

Hide or delete a section

The eye icon keeps a section in the editor and leaves it out of the PDF, so you can drop your interests for one employer and bring them back for the next. The trash icon removes the section for good. Professional Summary has an eye of its own.

Have AI rewrite a line

Click a bullet point and press Regenerate to open Regenerate Bullet Point. The box asking what you dislike about the line is optional, though "too vague about the result" gets a better rewrite. For a whole entry, press the wand for AI Tailor Entry and say what it should emphasise: "Emphasise team leadership and quantifiable results". Generate stays inactive until you type something, and "Entry updated" confirms the swap. AI regenerations are capped on Starter (free); see pricing.

Delete a resume

From the table, press the ⋯ at the end of the row and choose Delete. The dialog names the file and warns that it cannot be undone. Press Delete for "Resume deleted". Download a copy first if you might want the document later, and if it was your primary, put the star on another one: What a primary resume is.

Inside an application the same menu reads Delete & Restart. Confirm Restart? spells out the cost: the current resume goes, the edit suggestion process starts from the beginning, and generation credits come off again, as for a new resume. Where a few lines are the problem, edit them in place and keep the credits.