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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 panel, opened from the Write outline. Summary opens separately from the same outline. Everything you type saves automatically and shows on the page as you go.

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.

Enter your name and contact details

Basics panel with fictional Alex Morgan contact fields and the rendered resume

Write your details beside the rendered page

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Open the Basics card

Select Basics at the top of the Write outline. It replaces the outline in the panel; use the back button to return. 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. A blank resume starts with your account name; change it if your resume should show something else.
  • 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.

Add a photo

Fictional Morgan Vale resume showing a German unreadable-photo upload error

An unreadable upload receives localized guidance. The existing photo stays unchanged.

Unreadable photo files are rejected before cropping. Photos larger than 10 MB can still be cropped and re-encoded to shrink them; Skip and upload is unavailable above the limit. Upload failures give photo-specific guidance without changing the current photo. Native mobile uses its system image picker/crop editor and applies the same upload cap. If you change the photo URL or remove the photo while an upload is running, your newer choice is kept when that upload finishes. Other photo settings you edit during the upload are kept too. 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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Choose a photo

In the photo row, select Add to open your device’s file picker directly. JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF files work. Appearance controls become available after a photo is added.
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Use an image address instead (optional)

Select URL beside Add to paste the address of an image that’s already online. If a photo is already present, select Edit to change its URL or appearance.
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Crop it

After choosing a file, the Crop photo 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 saved Aspect ratio setting. After adding a photo, select Edit to change its shape for later uploads. When Fit is set to Contain, readable images within the size limit upload without the crop step. Larger images still open the crop editor.
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Adjust how it looks

After the photo is added, select Edit, then change the settings below and watch the page update. Your changes save as you make them.
Photo settings with the fictional sample picture, image size, fit, border and shadow controls

Adjust a photo without changing your other details

Crop photo dialog showing the bundled sample photo, Zoom, Cancel, Skip and upload and Crop and upload

Frame a photo before uploading

To remove the photo, open the photo settings and select the photo preview (Remove photo).
The photo is removed right away, and a Photo removed message offers Undo to put it back. Your size, fit, border and other photo settings are kept. Removing the photo from one resume does not delete the uploaded file, so copies of the resume and earlier versions in history keep their photo. 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.

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 below Basics in the Write outline, and select it to open it.If there’s no Summary row, select Add section at the bottom of the list, then Summary.
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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.
Summary text editor containing fictional Alex Morgan’s professional summary

Open Summary from the Write outline

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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