Resumes

Your base resume, one per direction, and every tailored one, all written from your approved record, to read, adjust and export.

Every resume is written from your approved record. You never paste one in. You can still change any line in your own words, decide what shows and how, and export it.

The list

Two tabs: All, and To update (resumes your record changed under, or with a new version waiting, with Update all to write them again at once).

The list has three parts:

• Base: the Base resume, a neutral account of your career.
• Directions: a Direction resume for each approved direction, written from your record and the direction's positioning. It can't be written until the positioning is approved.
• Tailored: resumes written for one posting. They're frozen as written; Tailor again writes a new one.

Each row says how it stands (Up to date, Changed since it was written, New version to keep or discard, Not written yet) and when it was written.

Read and adjust a resume

1. 1

   Open it

   The resume shows as a page, with Details beside it: when it was written, how many of your approved facts it Uses (and where the unused ones are), its Length with its line count and about how many pages (it says so when a version runs past the length you chose), its roles, and on a direction resume the resumes tailored from it and Tailor a resume.

2. 2

   Check a line

   Point at a line and open Built on: the line as it reads on this resume, and beside it each fact in your record as written. Rewrite this fact… asks for a new wording of the fact itself with your comment (about $0.01); it keeps every number and comes to Review under Rewrites to use or dismiss. The fact stays as it is until you use it.

3. 3

   Change a line

   A line's ⋯ menu (or a right-click; a long press on a phone) has Edit, which puts it in your own words on this resume only; it shows Edited, and Use CareerBot’s puts the original back. Check against facts (uses your AI budget) marks it Supported or Goes beyond, with the words that go beyond.

4. 4

   Pin or hide

   Pin keeps a line on this resume, including in every new version written after it; Hide takes it off this resume and keeps it off in new versions (hidden lines stay listed, struck through). A new version keeps them by the facts the line rests on, even when its words change. U undoes.

5. 5

   Move a line

   Move up and Move down in a line's ⋯ menu (⌥↑ and ⌥↓, or drag its handle) move it within its role. The order carries into new versions. U undoes.

6. 6

   Add a line

   Under a role with approved facts the resume doesn't use, Add a line lists them. Add as written puts the fact on as it reads in your record, free; Write it for this resume writes one line from it in this resume's voice, at the cost shown. Either shows Added; U or Hide takes it off. When one more line would run past the length, the list says so.

7. 7

   Edit the summary and contact

   Click the summary to put it in your own words. The contact block at the top is edited in place and used on every resume.

Layout, History and Export

• Layout (L): length, voice, titles on resumes, folding a role into the one before or after (keeping its lines or leaving them out), breaks, and which projects and skills show. Applies to sets it for This resume or as the Default for every resume. A role this resume places differently shows This resume (used) beside Your record, with Use your record’s to drop this resume's own setting. The writer leaves out the facts of roles left out or folded with their lines left out, so the space goes to the roles that show.
• Voice (in Layout): Plain says what you did, then what came of it; Confident (the default) opens with what changed because of you. Every level keeps to your record: no claim, number, tool, title or scope it doesn't hold. The default for every resume also sets cover letters and outreach. Changing it is free; base and direction resumes then show they changed since they were written and offer Write again, while tailored resumes stay as written. Example from your record writes one of your facts at each level beside the fact, at the cost shown.
• History (H): every version, what changed in each, the note it was written with (Your note, with Use again on older ones), Compare with current and Restore.
• Export: Download PDF, Download Word, Copy for Google Docs, Copy plain text, and more formats.

New versions

• Write again writes a new version from your approved record, at the cost shown. An optional note, What should change?, steers it (for example "Lead with results"); it never adds anything your record doesn't hold. With no note, the reason you gave for discarding the last new version steers it. You see it beside the current one, then Keep or Discard. The new version keeps your pins, hidden lines and line order, and says so under each one (and in What changed and History) until you keep it. Tailor again and a cover letter's Write again take a note the same way.
• Add what's new writes lines only for facts and projects you added or reworded since. You add or Skip each one; Add all adds the rest.
• When facts a line rests on are edited, rejected or reworded (a rewrite you used), the resume says how many lines rest on changed facts and offers Update lines. You see each new line before anything changes, then Apply or Discard.

If Google Drive is connected, each resume has a Google Doc in your CareerBot folder, updated when you keep a new version. See Settings.

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