Creating a Resume — The Manual Resume Wizard

Click Add Resume on the Resumes page to open the Manual Resume Wizard. The wizard is dynamic — the number of steps depends on your selections.

Step 1 — Choose a Starting Point

Option A: Blank Resume

• Creates an empty Resume with placeholder structure — no Career Profile required.
• You can edit all content immediately after creation.
• Skips steps 2 and 3 — the wizard has 2 steps total.

Option B: Select a Career Profile

• Choose from your saved career profiles. Each profile card shows the profile name, a Primary badge (if applicable), profile type, and the number of linked documents and applications.
• At least one Career Profile must exist to use this option.
• Selecting a profile leads to additional steps for customising which content to include.

Tip: If you haven't built your Career Profile yet, you can still create a Blank Resume and edit it directly. However, profile-based Resumes produce much stronger output because the AI can draw on your structured career history.

Step 2 — Select Sections (Profile-based Resumes only)

Choose which sections from your Career Profile to include. Sections are grouped into four categories:

Basic Information

• Personal Details — your name, email, and phone number
• Professional Summary — your career profile description

Experience

• Work Experience — toggle on/off, and optionally choose specific roles (shown as "Title – Company", sorted most recent first)

Skills & Expertise

• Career Highlights (Key Skills)
• Professional Skills (Skills Portfolio, grouped by category)

Education & Certifications

• Qualifications — toggle on/off, and optionally select specific entries ("Degree – Institution")
• Certifications — toggle on/off, and optionally select specific entries ("Name – Issuing Organisation")

For sections with multiple items, you can either Include All (the default) or make a Custom Selection — the card shows "X of Y selected" when customising.

At least one section must be selected to proceed. If Work Experience is included, an additional step is added to the wizard.

Step 3 — Select Activities (Only if Work Experience was included)

Choose which activities (achievements and responsibilities) to include under each role.

• An Include All Activities master checkbox appears at the top for selecting everything at once.
• Roles are shown in an accordion — expand each one to see its individual activities.
• Each role has a per-role "include all" checkbox, plus individual activity checkboxes.
• Roles with no activities recorded are still shown and will appear in the Resume.
• A running "X of Y selected" count is shown.

Tip: Use activity selection to create targeted Resumes for different types of roles — include only the most relevant experience for each application rather than your full history.

Step 4 — Review & Generate

A summary of your selections is displayed before the document is created.

For a profile-based Resume:

• Profile name
• Linked application (or "None – standalone resume")
• A bulleted list of all included sections and their counts (e.g., "Work Experience (3 roles)", "Key Skills (8 skills)")

For a blank Resume:

• Type: Blank Resume
• Linked application: None
• A note that the Resume will be empty and fully editable after creation

The action button reflects your path:

• Blank Resume → "Create Blank Resume" (free)
• Profile-based Resume → "Generate Resume" (AI-powered — free tier users will see their remaining credits displayed here)

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