Format and download your resume
Pick one of the eight templates, pull a spilling resume back onto one page, then export the file as a PDF or a DOCX to send to an employer.
The edit design tab changes how a resume looks without touching a word of it, and Download turns it into a file. Open a resume from Resume in the sidebar to reach both.
Pick a template
- Select edit design and open Templates. Three thumbnails show, with the current one outlined in blue.
- Press View all templates for the full eight: Classic (Recommended), Classic Photo, Stylish Blue, Stylish Blue Photo, Stylish Red, Stylish Red Photo, Chinese 1 and Chinese 2.
- Click one to apply it. The preview redraws and your writing stays as it was, so trying a few costs nothing.
Only the photo templates and the two Chinese templates carry your picture, the one from the Image field under Personal Information. Move from Classic Photo to Classic and the picture leaves the page while the field keeps it.
Set the layout
Layout Formatting starts with the Font picker. Chinese fonts are large and the first load takes a moment, so a preview that sits blank for a few seconds is still working. Under it sit the presets Small, Regular and Large, plus Custom, which reveals six sliders: Name Size, Content Margin, Section Margin, Font Size, Margin Vertical and Margin Horizontal. Font, size and margins belong to the resume rather than the template, so they survive a switch.
Resume Language sets "the language of the pre-set fields and headings of the current resume", meaning the fixed labels rather than your own writing: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German or Spanish. It belongs to this one resume, so you can keep one in English and the next in French.
Fit it on one page
A yellow warning icon on the edit design tab, an amber banner reading "Current length of your resume is longer than 1 page", and a pill in the download dialog all report the same thing.
- Press the Small preset. That alone pulls most resumes back onto a single page.
- If it still spills, press Custom and drag. Margins give up space faster than font size does, and the preview redraws as you go.
- When the sliders run out, cut content on the edit content tab, or hide a section with its eye icon: Build and edit a resume.
Download the file
- Press Download above the left column and choose Download PDF or Download DOCX.
- A dialog headed Double check before you download! runs six questions past you, covering numbers, company spellings, locations, dates, experience descriptions and skills. Read them against the preview instead of clicking through. AI-written lines carry the odd wrong date or mangled company name, and nothing in the preview flags either.
- The PDF dialog offers a Set as Primary Resume? toggle. Switch it on if this is the resume you want as your default for downloads and future tailoring: What a primary resume is.
- Press Confirm. The button reads "Downloading..." while the file is built, then your browser saves it.
Choose PDF or DOCX
Send PDF unless you are asked for something else; it looks the same on whatever opens it. Take DOCX when an employer asks for an editable file, or when you want to change a line in a word processor first. Neither carries a watermark, and the preview in the editor is what comes out.
The file takes the resume label shown at the top left of the editor. Rename it with the pencil icon before you download if that is not a name you would want a recruiter reading off an attachment. Downloading changes nothing in Resume Builder: the resume stays in the table and you can export it again whenever you like.
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