Sections and entries

A resume is a list of sections, and each section holds entries. Nothing is fixed - you choose which sections exist, what they are called, and what order they come in.

What you can add#

The usual four: Summary, Experience, Education, Skills.

And eleven more: Projects, Certifications, Courses, Awards, Languages, Interests, Organisations, Publications, References, Declaration, and a Custom section you name yourself.

That is fifteen kinds in all. Declaration is the signed statement that the information is true, which many resumes in India carry and few elsewhere do.

Renaming a section#

Every section can be renamed, from Rename in its menu. For the standard kinds you choose from headings that parsers recognise - "Experience" can become "Work Experience" or "Professional Experience", for example. Only a Custom section takes any heading you type.

The reason is what happens once the file leaves the builder. An applicant tracking system only sees the words on the page, and a parser that does not recognise a heading folds that section's content into the one above it. So a Custom heading parsers do not know gets a note saying so. It is a warning, not a block - you can keep the heading if you want it.

Ordering#

Drag to reorder. The order in the editor is the order on the page.

The convention worth knowing rather than following blindly: whichever section makes your case fastest goes first. For most people with a job that is Experience; for a student or a career changer it is often Projects or Education.

Hiding rather than deleting#

An entry can be hidden. It stays in the document and comes off the page.

Custom sections#

Use one when nothing else fits - a portfolio, patents, military service, speaking. You name it and it behaves like any other section.

Resist using several. A resume with nine sections and two entries each reads as a list of categories rather than a case for hiring you.