Edit your profile or update it from a CV
Add a job, a skill or a qualification by hand, or upload a CV and let FirstResume fill the cards in, then clear the row that blocks saving.
Everything FirstResume writes for you starts from the profile, so it earns ten minutes when you join and a minute whenever your situation changes. Type it in, or hand it a CV and correct what comes out.
Switch to edit mode
- Open Profile in the sidebar. The page opens on My Profile, read-only.
- Press the black Edit button at the bottom right. It becomes Cancel and Save Changes, and Update from CV appears at the bottom left.
Fill in the cards
Basic Information takes your photo (JPG, PNG or GIF, with a crop step) and First Name, Last Name, Current Title, Current Location, Email, Phone and LinkedIn. Industry is a row of pills: + Add Industry adds one, the × on a pill removes it. Professional Summary holds a few lines about you and Years of Experience.
The history cards each have their own add button: + Add Experience (Title, Company, Start Date, End Date, Location, Details), + Add Education (Degree, Institution, then the same dates and details), + Add Project (Title, dates, Location, Details), + Add Certification, + Add Skill and + Add Language. Entries collapse once you close them. To drop one, open it and press the red Remove.
Entries stay in the order you added them, with no drag handle here, so add roles in the order you want to read them back. Pressing Enter does nothing in most fields; in the Skills boxes it opens another row, which makes a long list quick to type.
Update from CV
A PDF or DOCX rewrites the cards from the document: basic information, summary, experience, education, projects, certifications, skills and languages.
- Press Update from CV at the bottom left.
- Drag the file onto "Drop your Resume here", or press Upload from computer and pick it. Other formats stop at a browser alert, "Only PDF and DOCX files are accepted."
- Press Update Profile and wait about a minute for "Profile updated from CV successfully".
Feed it your longest CV, then read the result against the document. Dates, job titles and company names are worth checking, and anything you typed by hand that the CV never mentioned may need putting back.
Fix a blocked save
Save Changes sends the whole profile at once and you get "Profile updated successfully". A press that goes nowhere points to a half-added row, most often an + Add Experience row you opened and left blank. Every experience entry needs a Title and a Company, every education entry an Institution and a Degree, every project a Title, and every skill, language and certification some text. The email address has to be valid. Fill the row in or press Remove on it, then save again.
Cancel throws away everything you have done since pressing Edit.
Photo and skill details
Your photo uploads and saves as soon as you crop it, with its own "Profile picture updated successfully".
Skill details save from their dialog. Click a skill pill in read mode to open "Describe your experience with X (Optional)", which asks where you used the skill, what you did with it, and any measurable metrics. Press Save there and it is stored on its own. Pills that carry details turn solid black.
What kind of work you want sits on its own tab: Set your job preferences.
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