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The top of a resume tells a recruiter who you are and how to reach you. In Reactive Resume that information lives in the Basics card at the top of the Write panel, with your summary just below it. Everything you type saves automatically and shows on the page as you go.

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Before you start

Open a resume in the editor and make sure Write is selected in the editor bar. If you’re new to the editor, read Getting to know the resume editor first.

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Enter your name and contact details

The Basics card showing the photo row, Full name, Headline, Email, Phone, Location and Website fields, two extra fields with icons, and the Add field button

The Basics card

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Open the Basics card

The card is at the top of the Write panel and shows your initials, name, headline and location. Select it to open or close it. You can also click your name on the page to jump straight to it.
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Fill in the fields

  • Full name: your name as you want it printed. On a blank resume, this field is ready for typing as soon as the editor opens. - Headline: a short line under your name, usually your job title or the role you’re aiming for, for example “Game Developer”. - Email and Phone: how employers contact you. If an email address looks incomplete, the field tells you what’s missing, for example “Add the domain after the @”. - Location: a city and region is enough, for example “Seattle, WA”. - Website: your personal site or portfolio. You can leave out https://; it’s added for you.
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Check the page

Your details appear in the page header as you type. Leave a field empty to keep it off the page.
To show friendly text instead of the full web address, select the tag icon inside the Website field (Add a label to the URL) and type a Label, such as “Portfolio”.
Use custom fields for anything the standard fields don’t cover, such as a GitHub profile, a portfolio on another site, or a second phone number.
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Select Add field

Add field is under the Website field. A new row appears with an icon, a text box and a few buttons.
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Type the text

Enter what should appear on the page, for example github.com/dkowalski-dev.
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Choose an icon

Select the icon button at the start of the row (Pick an icon), then search for and pick an icon.
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Add a link (optional)

Select the link button (Add a link) and enter the web address. The button is highlighted once the field has a link (its name changes to Edit link), and the text on the page becomes clickable.
To reorder custom fields, select the up arrow (Move field up) on a row. To delete one, select × (Remove field). For social profiles you want listed in their own section, such as LinkedIn with a username, use the Profiles section instead. See Managing sections.

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Add a photo

Whether to include a photo depends on where you’re applying. Many applicant tracking systems ignore photos, while some countries expect one. The photo row at the top of the Basics card reminds you of this.
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Open the photo settings

In the photo row, select Add (or Edit if the resume already has a photo). The photo settings open.
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Upload a picture

Select the empty square (Upload picture) and choose an image from your device. JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF files up to 10 MB work.You can also paste the address of an image that’s already online into the URL field.
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Crop it

The Crop picture dialog opens. Drag the image to position it and use the Zoom slider to frame it, then select Crop and Upload. Select Skip and Upload to use the whole image, or Cancel to stop.The crop frame follows the photo’s Aspect Ratio setting, so set that first if you want a non-square photo. When Fit is set to Contain, the image uploads without the crop step.
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Adjust how it looks

Change the settings below and watch the page update. Your changes save as you make them.
The photo settings popover with the photo preview, URL field, visibility toggle, Fit, Size, Rotation, Aspect Ratio, Border Radius, Border Width and Shadow Width controls

The photo settings

The Crop picture dialog with the photo inside a square crop frame, a Zoom slider, and Cancel, Skip and Upload, and Crop and Upload buttons

Cropping a new photo before it uploads

To remove the photo, open the photo settings and select the photo preview (Delete picture).
Confirm Delete picture to remove the image. Your size, fit, border and other photo settings are kept. To take the photo off the page but keep it, use the eye icon instead.
Uploaded photos are resized to at most 800 × 800 pixels and saved as JPEG, so transparent backgrounds become solid. Self-hosted installations can turn this processing off.

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Write your summary

The summary is a short statement under your header that says who you are and what you offer.
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Find the Summary row

Look for Summary in the section list under the Basics card, and select it to open it.If there’s no Summary row, select Add section at the bottom of the list, then Summary.
2

Write two or three sentences

Click into the text box and type. While you’re typing, the box shows the formatting toolbar, the hint “2–3 sentences reads best” and a character count.
The Summary section open, with the summary text, the formatting toolbar with an Improve button, and a footer reading 2–3 sentences reads best and 424 characters

The summary while you're editing it

To keep the summary but leave it off the page, select the eye icon on its row (Hide Summary from the page). For bold text, lists and links, see Formatting text.

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