First, Create a New Resume
Head to your Resume Builder to get started! If you would like to create a new resume, click the "Create New Resume" button located on the right side of your page. You'll be presented with three options: (1) Auto-Select Content to Matched Job, (2) Default All Content On, (3) Default All Content Off.
Important note: You must have 5 or more Resumes made before the 'Auto-Select' Content options will pop up when selecting 'Create New Resume'
In this article, we'll cover the 2nd and 3rd options. For additional information on the first option with the Auto-Selection tool, refer to this support article HERE.
"Default All Content On" will create a new resume with all of your resume content checked, or activated. From here, you can choose which content you'd like to keep/remove from your resume.
"Default All Content Off" will create a new resume with most of your resume content unchecked, or activated. This option provides a (mostly) blank resume in which you can decide the experiences you'd like to add.
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For more assistance on importing an existing resume into Teal, check out this article HERE.
Change Your Resume Title
To change your resume title, you’ll simply open the resume, click into the title itself and make the changes directly in that field.
Once you're ready to edit your resume, you can view our "Guidance" tab to help you get started with each section of the Resume Builder!
Editing Your Contact Information
To edit your contact information, click into the title itself to open the section. Select "Edit" and fill out the fields for details you'd like to add.
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Add a Target Title
A target title can help recruiters identify which role you’re applying for.
To add a target title, find your Target Titles section underneath "Contact Information." Click into the title to open the section (if it's closed) and select "Add Target Title."
Any time you’re looking to edit existing text, hover over the text you’d like to edit and click the pencil icon!
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Add a Professional Summary
A Professional Summary is meant to consolidate some of your key achievements and goals into a simple statement for employers to review quickly and easily.
To add a Professional Summary, open your Professional Summary section and click "Add Professional Summary."
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Add Work Experience
To add new work experience, click the "Add Work Experience" button at the top of the Work Experience section.
If you'd like to edit existing experiences that were added from importing a resume, you can click on the pencil icon next to the company name to adjust company details and the same icon next to the role title to update details for the position.
Companies & Position
The first form that'll open allows you to fill in the company and position details for your work experience. Here, you can add the company name, company description, position title, location, role type, and dates of employment.
NOTE: If you worked at one company at separate times and are attempting to add two companies of the exact same name, our system will return an error to prevent duplicates from being added to your Resume Builder.
Instead, we recommend adding all of the positions you've held and each of their tenures under one company. With the "Sort by Date" setting toggled on within your Work Experience section, your positions will be automatically displayed according to their tenure dates.
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Experience Bullet Points
Once you’ve added a new company and position to your resume, you can then begin adding in your work achievements! Within each position added, you’ll see the option to "Add Bullet."
Using the Bullet Coach
Whether you're editing an existing bullet point or creating a new one, our Bullet Coach can provide specific feedback on your current content to help make it more impactful and relevant!
You can learn more about the tool HERE.
Using AI
Not sure what to write in your bullet point? You can find guidance on using our AI tool for bullet generation HERE.
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It's best to provide the most updated and relevant information in your Work Experience section to ensure that your achievements will be crafted in the most impactful way!
Add Education History
Scroll down to the Education section, below "Work Experience," and click "Add Education." If you’ve imported an existing resume, you can edit the text in the Education section by hovering over the existing text and selecting the pencil icon.
Add Certifications, Awards & Scholarships, Projects, Volunteer & Leadership, and Publications
Our remaining sections (Certifications, Awards & Scholarships, Projects, Volunteer & Leadership, Publications) can also be manually added to by following the same steps above!
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Add Skills & Interests
Skills
Our Skills section provides you the opportunity to list and organize your skills in your resume.
You can add skills by either typing them in individually:
Or entering them all at once, separated by commas:
You can also place your skills into individually-selected categories. For example, looking to organize some skills into a "Data" category? It can be built from your Skills section!
Added skills can also be dragged and dropped into categories as you move along.
Need to change the title of a category? Select the pencil icon to open the "Edit Category" field.
If you'd like to delete a category, click on the folder icon. You'll then be prompted to confirm deletion.
NOTE: Making these changes (editing and deleting the categories) will apply to all resumes!
Interests
The Interests "section" serves as a separate category within the Skills section. Any additions made to this "section" will be added to the Skills list in your resume. HERE is a video that explains this functionality further.
To add, edit, or delete content within the Interests category, you can follow the same instructions for making changes to skills!
TIP: The checkboxes associated with your skills/interests will determine if they're shown on the resume or not – simply uncheck any skill you don't wish you appear on the resume.
We recommend leveraging the checkboxes versus deleting the skill entirely.
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Where should I go from here?
For a more in-depth overview of Skills & Categories, check out the following articles:
After you've familiarized yourself with Skills & Categories, we recommend checking out this article next: Making Changes Across Resumes.
Have feedback or further questions? Something missing here that we can do a better job covering?
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