Writing a résumé
- Applicant-tracking system (ATS)
- Software used by some employers to receive and sort applications. It extracts the text of the résumé; a clear structure and real text help it, while images and tables hinder it.
- Summary
- The few lines under your name that present your role, your field and what you bring. It is read first: keep it concrete.
- Achievement
- A bullet point that states an action and its result, with a figure when possible. The rewrite button helps you start with an action verb.
- Keywords
- The terms of the job offer worth repeating in the résumé when they describe your real experience, so that a reader or a tool finds them.
- Skills
- The short list of tools, methods or languages you master. Keep only the ones you could discuss in an interview.
- Chronological résumé
- Experience listed from the most recent to the oldest. It is the layout the templates use.
In the editor
- Template
- One of the six layouts of the résumé. Changing template keeps your content; only the presentation changes.
- Accent colour
- The colour applied to headings and rules of the template. It is kept in the exports.
- Résumé language
- The variant chosen for the document itself, independent of the interface language: it sets the section titles, the date format and the wording of each market.
- Local draft
- The copy of your work kept in your browser. It survives a page reload and never leaves your device unless you save it to an account.
- Autosave
- When you are signed in, every change is saved to your account a moment after you make it. The status appears next to the preview.
- PDF, Word and JSON exports
- PDF is the version to send; Word is an editable document; JSON is the structured data of your résumé, useful to keep a backup.
Account and sign-in
- One-time code
- The 6-digit code sent by email to sign in. It works once and expires after fifteen minutes; there is no password.
- Verification phrase
- Two words shown on the sign-in page and repeated in the email, so that you can check that the code comes from your own request.
- Two-factor authentication
- An optional second check with an authenticator app. Its code is requested after the email code at every sign-in.
- Recovery codes
- Single-use codes shown once when you enable two-factor authentication. They replace the app if you lose access to it.
- Session
- The connection kept in your browser after a sign-in. Closing it from your account removes the local draft of that account from the device.