Create and customize your resume

Job Umbrella turns your profile into resumes that hiring software (ATS) can read: a base version you reuse, and tailored versions aimed at specific jobs. Here is how to create, customize, and export them.

Generate a base resume

1. Make sure your profile is filled in.
2. Open Resumes and choose a career level — entry-level, professional, or executive.
3. Click Generate from profile. The AI drafts an achievement-focused resume.
4. The resume editor opens, where you can change any section by hand.

The career level changes the emphasis, tone, and length: entry-level leads with education and potential, professional is experience-forward, and executive highlights leadership and scope.

Customize a resume for a specific job

1. Add the job to your Board with its full description (paste it into the Job description field, or capture it with the extension).
2. Open that job and click Customize resume, choosing a career level.
3. Your profile can hold far more than one resume needs. The tool keeps the bullet points and skills that fit this job (a few per role, more for recent roles) and drops the rest, then rewrites what it kept to read well. It may use the job’s own words where they mean the same thing as yours, and it never adds a skill or a claim your profile does not hold. The result is saved and linked to that job.
4. Read How this resume was tailored on the resume page. It shows which of the job’s terms the resume covers, which bullets were kept and why, and every wording change, each with a Revert.
5. Read the Fit check under it. It lists what the posting wants that your resume misses, and any claim that goes past your profile.

With a tailored resume saved, you can also generate a matching cover letter for that job.

Export to .docx or .pdf

From any resume, download it as a .docx or .pdf. Both use a single-column, ATS-safe layout with real, selectable text. The .docx is the safest default for most application portals.

Before you upload a resume anywhere, click Check how a parser reads it. Job Umbrella exports the file and reads it back with the same parser the upload uses. That text is what an applicant tracking system gets. The panel lists any name, contact detail, role, date, degree, school or skill the parser could not find. If something is missing, change its wording, save, and check again. You can run 10 checks an hour.

Good to know

• The AI never invents an employer, a date, or a skill. It only reshapes what your profile holds.
• Each new resume or tailored version uses 1 free AI run from your daily allowance.
• A resume tailored to one posting beats one generic resume sent everywhere.