You've learned about the Presentation & Sections Tabs in Design Mode, now let's move onto some more nuanced settings.
In this article, we'll cover the Settings & Advanced Tabs. Here, you'll determine how to display dates (by company or by position), font size, and much more.
You can see each selection in the preview of your resume.
Navigate to Design Mode
First, open up a resume in the Resume Builder and navigate to Design Mode - indicated by a pencil icon on the top tab area of the page.
Settings Tab
The Settings tab allows you to customize the formatting of your locations, work experience, dates, and education.
Locations
Choose to show locations by company or by position (or hide them altogether!)
Work Experience
Choose to show work experience by company or by position. This will place an emphasis on either the company or the position title.
Dates
You can choose whether you'd like to show the overall tenure you spent at a company, or the period of time spent in each individual position. You can also select to show both!
Education
In the Education Settings you can choose to show your educational experiences by placing an emphasis on the institution or on the degree.
Options in the Advanced tab are only available to Teal+ users.
Users with a free account have access to the Presentation, Sections, and Settings tabs.
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Advanced Tab
The Advanced tab allows you to further customize the style of your resume by adjusting bullet and separator symbols, spacing, and borders.
Bullet & Separator Symbols
Here, you can select which symbols you'd like to use for your list items and separators for your headings.
Symbol Adjustment Options
Example Selection
Vertical Spacing
In the Vertical Spacing section, you can adjust spacing between sections, headers and content, and more. You can also type in your own spacing values, but we will overwrite the value with the minimum/maximum available.
Borders
Here you can adjust borders above/below your header of the page and the border underneath section titles.
Border Adjustment Options
Example of Above/Below Header Adjustment
Example of Section Title Border Adjustment
Why use the Settings & Advanced tabs?
The Settings tab can help you determine the organization for the details on your resume. If you're working fully remote, maybe you'll find that "locations" aren't relevant, and decide to remove them. Or, if you want to place emphasis on your position titles versus company names, you can do that here as well!
The Advanced tab can help you determine the spacing on the page. You can increase your headers, minimize your sub-headers, and so much more. Advanced allows you to align more closely with page-length goals.
Where should I go from here?
Once you're finished designing your resume, learn how to export it here: Export Your Resume & Cover Letter.
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