Navigating Hiration’s AI Resume Builder

Visit https://www.hiration.com/app/ and then click on ‘Sign Up with Facebook’ or ‘Sign Up with Google’ to sign up with an existing account. If you don’t want to sign up with your social media accounts, then you can sign up manually by using the ‘Sign Up’ option.

Once you’ve logged in, click on ‘Use a Pre-written Sample’ on the left. If you’ve just started, the My Resumes dashboard will be empty (as opposed to the four resumes that you see here)

Choose a single column or double column design as per your preference is the step that follows. You can change the design without disturbing the content at any point in time.

There are 3 ways in which you can kick-start your resume:

• Upload an Existing Resume

  You can directly upload your existing resume (in Doc/PDF format) into any of the designs available.

• Create a New Resume using a Pre-written Sample

  There are multiple ready-to-use resume samples for specific profiles. You can pick the one closest to your profile and tweak the same based on your requirements.

• Use a Blank Template

  In case you don’t wish to refer to existing content, you can pick a Blank Template (you’ll see the option on top of the Resume Dashboard once you login)

Yes! Simply go to the My Resumes dashboard containing all your resumes. Each resume is depicted as a tile. Hover over the tile/icon to see the different options.

The options are:

• Edit: open the resume to make edits and download when you are done

• Rename: Rename the resume you are working on

• Copy: create a duplicate of an existing resume. Make sure the file name of the duplicate version is unique

• Delete: delete the resume from the dashboard. Once deleted, the resume can’t be accessed

You can rename the title of any existing section.

If you want to create any section that you don't see on the resume builder, you can simply go to the ' Add Section' option present on the top of the screen.

Clicking on it will open up a window with options to add sections on your resume. Depending on the sections already present in your resume, you’ll see a variation of this:

From here, click on 'Miscellaneous-1' or 'Miscellaneous-2' which will give you a blank section with no formatting. Sections like Internship, Professional Experience, Education, and Dated Sections will allow you to add a new section with pre-defined fields for date, location, company, and title.

Edit the section heading name to say 'LICENSE', 'CERTIFICATIONS', or anything else you want and add your information however you see fit.

When all the unique sections are already present in your resume, the ‘Add Section’ option won’t show any further sections. The already existing sections in the resume can be duplicated by clicking on the ‘+’ present on the extreme left of the section.

You can edit and rename this section while changing the order of the same.

If you want to create any section that the tool doesn't have an option for, you can simply go to the 'Add Section' option present on top of the screen. Clicking on it will open up a window with options to add sections on your resume.

From here, click on 'miscellaneous-1' or 'miscellaneous-2' which will give you a blank section with no formatting. Edit the section name to say anything you want and add your information however you see fit.

Select a Dated Section if you want to add a section with pre-defined fields for date, location, company, and title.

Go to the section you need to move. Click on the arrows present on the top left corner to move the section up or down.

You can make your resume in all the 3 resume formats by customizing the date format as required. You can customize the dates in terms of months and years.

To do so, click on the ‘More’ option given on the toolbar above and then from the drop-down click on the downward arrow given below the ‘Date Format’ option and then choose the date format as required.

If you wish to include only the start or end dates in a section, or if you wish to remove the dates altogether, then hover over the dates and click on the ‘Pencil’ icon that appears on the right side of the dates.

Then customize the date format as per your requirement from the options available.

To write your skills inside the colored boxes, select the whole skills section, and then click on the ‘Skills’ option given on the toolbar above. After this press ‘Enter’ after the last skill to add color to the boxes.

Select the text you want to bold and choose the 'Bold' option from the formatting toolbar on top of the screen.

Select the text you want to italicize and choose the 'Italics' option from the formatting toolbar on top of the screen.

Select the text you want to underline and choose the 'Underline' option from the formatting toolbar on top of the screen.

Select the text where you want to add a bullet and select the 'Bullet' option from the formatting toolbar on top of the screen. Keep pressing enter to form more bullets on the list.

Select the text where you want your numbered list to begin and select the 'Numbering' option from the formatting toolbar on top of the screen. Keep pressing enter to form more items in the list.

Select the bullet you wish to be converted into a sub-bullet and press the 'Tab' key.

Select the text you want to change the alignment of. You can align it to the left, right, center, or opt for a justify alignment from the white toolbar on top of the screen.

Click on the ‘Fonts’ option given on top of the editor and then from the drop-down use the ‘Font Size’ option to change the font size in terms of very small, small, medium, and large.

If you wish to customize the font size further, then you can use the ‘Size’ option given on the toolbar above and customize the font size in terms of digits.

Click on the ‘Fonts’ option given on top of the editor and then from the drop-down menu, you can change the font of all the headers and the body text to 7 different font types.

Select the text you need to add the hyperlink to. Select the 'Hyperlink' option present in the fourth position from the right in the toolbar.

Paste your link in the window that appears and click on confirm.

Select the hyperlinked text, then select the option for removing hyperlinks present in the third position from the right in the toolbar.

Click on the box in which you want to undo the changes and then press 'Ctrl+Z'.

Go to the 'Spacing' option present on the top left of the resume builder, the third option form the left.

The default is set to '4'. Press the buttons on the left and right of the digit to decrease or increase the spacing - 'down arrow' to decrease the spacing and ‘up’ arrow to increase the spacing - uniformly throughout your resume.

You can reduce it to '1' or '0'. This will take care of the blank page or any minor spillover issue.

If the spacing is 0 and your resume is in 1 page but the PDF is showing an extra blank second page, simply download the PDF and manually remove it. Xodo is a handy free PDF tool to do that, in case your default PDF viewer doesn’t allow you to.

You can adjust the margins of all the four sides by clicking on the ‘More’ option given on top of the editor. In the dropdown, click on the downward and upward arrows given on each side of the margins to increase or decrease the spacing of the margins.

Go to the 'Spacing' option present on the top left of the toolbar. The default is set to '4'. Press the upward arrow to increase the spacing uniformly throughout your resume. Although there is no upper limit to the spacing you can opt for, make sure that your resume looks good and the amount of white space complements the content.

Yes, you can insert a profile picture in the designs which don’t have the option by default. To do so, click on the ‘More’ option given on the toolbar above and in the drop-down menu, select the option of ‘Picture’ at the bottom of the list.

If you wish to delete the profile picture from the designs that have this option by default, then just however over the space given for the profile picture and click on the ‘trash’ icon.

To change the color of the body text, select the text and click on the ‘droplet’ icon given on the toolbar above. Then choose the color of your choice from the color palette.

Go to the 'Theme' option present on top of the editor.

It allows you to select the color scheme of your choice to customize the design of your resume.

Depending on the specific design, you’ll see an option to either change the primary color and/or secondary color the .

Click on the 'Change' option given on top of the screen and then change your design template to some other design using the options given on the panel at the bottom. Now select the old design template again and you'll be able to retain the original theme.

Click on the 'Change' option on top of the screen. You can select and choose from any of the design templates that will appear on the bottom of the screen: