Documentation
Everything you need to build a professional resume with Resume Builder HQ. Start with the 5-minute quickstart, then explore the steps, design tools, and exports in any order.
Getting Started
New here? Follow the quickstart to build and download your first resume.
Resume Builder
Every step of the 7-step resume wizard, explained with screenshots.
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Builder Overview
Learn how the Resume Builder HQ editor works. Explore the 7-step wizard, the live preview, and every tool at your fingertips for building an ATS-friendly resume.
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Contact
Enter your name, job title, phone, email, location, photo, and social links in the Contact step. Set date formatting to match your country.
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Experience
Add work history entries, write achievement-focused bullet points, and structure your experience section so recruiters and ATS scanners understand your impact.
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Education
Record your degrees, courses, and certificates in the Education step. Use the searchable degree picker to add your qualification in seconds.
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Skills
Add hard and soft skills with proficiency levels in the Skills step. Match your skills to the job description to pass ATS keyword filters.
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About / Summary
Write a professional summary that sells your strongest skills and experience. Format it with the built-in rich text editor.
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Review
See your entire resume on one page in the Review step. Edit any section, reorder blocks, and use the Add & Navigate Sections toolbar before you download.
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Download
Download your finished resume as a high-quality PDF (A4 or US Letter) or as a Word .docx file. Learn about the built-in text layer and print tips.
Design & Customization
Make your resume match your style: templates, colors, styles, text, and layout.
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Templates
Pick from 880+ resume templates filtered by category: ATS-friendly, modern, minimalist, two-column, with photo, and more. Apply designs with one click.
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Colors
Change your resume color scheme with live previews. Pick from swatch presets or fine-tune body and sidebar colors. Reset anytime with one click.
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Section Styles
Give each resume section a distinctive style: timeline, cards, minimal, ribbons, heading boxes, and more. Apply one style to every section at once.
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Text
Pair display and body fonts, tune font sizes, line height, and heading weights so your resume reads perfectly on paper and on screen.
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Layout
Refine your resume layout: sidebar position, margins, photo size and shape, borders, and page padding. Keep everything on one page with live page fitting.
Sections & Content
Manage the sections that make up your resume.
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Sections
Manage every resume section: personal details, summary, experience, education, skills, languages, hobbies, references, internships, publications, and a custom section.
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Profile Photo
Upload a profile photo, crop it in the built-in editor, add filters, and control visibility - show it, hide it, or keep a placeholder box for printing.
Import & Data
Start fast with examples and understand how your drafts are saved.
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Import
Start fast by importing a profession example, a country-specific CV preset, or sample data. One click fills your builder with well-written placeholder content.
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Autosave & Data
Your resume saves automatically in your browser as you type. Learn how drafts work, how to start a new CV, and how to reset your local data safely.
Tools & Resources
Free tools and resources that help you write a better resume.
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ATS Checker
Score your resume against ATS systems. Upload a PDF, DOCX, or TXT, compare it with a job description, and get keyword match, structure, and formatting fixes.
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Template Gallery
Browse the full Resume Builder HQ template gallery by category - ATS-friendly, modern, minimalist, two-column, with photo, one-page, and Google Docs styles.
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Resume Examples
Explore 174 resume examples across 15 industry groups at entry, mid, and senior level. Import any example straight into the builder with one click.
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Writing Guides
Use 174 profession-specific resume writing guides with step-by-step instructions, ATS keywords, salary outlook, and expert tips for every career level.
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Country Guides
Format your CV for 41 countries. Get the right date format, what to include, and country-specific examples for the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, and more.
FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions.