CV builder

It is a tool to make a CV that applicant tracking systems can read. You type your details on the left and see your CV on the right in one of 10 templates. It gives an ATS score, checks your CV against a job ad, and lets you keep a separate CV for each job.

Start at CV Builder.

Yes, to make and save a CV you need an Ur Next Door account. The free ATS checker works without signing in.

Open My CVs. You can also reach it from CV / Resume in the left sidebar, or My CVs in your account menu.

The CV is no longer a tab in Settings. It moved to My CVs. Old links to the Settings CV page still work and take you to your main CV in the new builder.

Open My CVs. Under Create your first CV, give it a name, pick a template and press Create CV. Then fill in your details on the left and press Save CV. Your profile fills in your name and email to start you off.

On My CVs, press New CV for a job. Choose A copy of my main CV, so you only change what this job needs, or A blank CV. Give it a name and press Create CV.

You can keep up to 20 CVs. My CVs shows how many you have, for example 20 of 20, and once you reach 20 the form for a new CV is gone. Delete one to make another.

Pressing Duplicate at 20 shows: You can keep up to 20 CVs. Delete one to make another.

On My CVs, press Duplicate on the CV. A full copy is made and opened so you can tailor it. The copy is Unlisted, or Private if the original was private, and it is not your main CV.

The name helps you tell your CVs apart, for example Google SDE, and only you see it. Company you are applying to and the role note which job this CV is for, so you can keep one CV per job.

Personal details, a professional title and summary, experience, education, projects, certifications, publications, honors and awards, languages and skills.

Add the company once, then use Add role for each title you held there, newest first. Write one achievement per line in each role's description, starting with an action and adding a number where you can.

Yes. Each role has its own skills, typed with commas between them, and they show as tags on that role. Your main skills list is separate.

Press Save CV. It saves on the page and the status shows Saved. If you try to leave with changes not saved, the page warns you first.

Yes. The preview, your CV's own page and the template samples are all drawn the same way, so what you see on the right is what others see.

Ten: Classic, Modern, Minimal, Executive, Compact, Technical, Academic, Fresher, Elegant and Accent. You can see each one on CV templates.

Pick by your field. Classic suits any role; Modern suits product, design, marketing and startup roles; Executive suits managers and leaders; Technical suits software, data and IT; Academic suits research and teaching.

Fresher suits students, fresh graduates and interns, and Compact keeps a long CV to one page. Minimal suits senior professionals, Elegant suits law, consulting, finance and hospitality, and Accent suits creative, sales and customer-facing roles.

Templates order sections differently. Academic puts education first, Technical puts skills early, and Fresher leads with education and projects. Your content stays the same.

Some templates show skills as one line of text and others as tags. It is part of each template's look. Either way the skills are real text that trackers can read.

Yes. You can set an accent colour on any template in the builder.

No. The templates show no photos, icons or text in images, because applicant tracking systems can drop content held in images. Every template is one column of real text.

Your main CV is the one your profile shows and the one sent with a job application unless you choose another. Your first CV becomes your main CV. It is marked Main CV on My CVs.

On My CVs, press Make main on the CV you want. You see: This is now your main CV: your profile shows it and job applications send it.

Your profile shows sections from your main CV: experience, education, certifications, publications, honors and awards, languages and skills. Others see them unless your main CV is Private. You always see them on your own profile.

Each CV has its own page at urnextdoor.com/cv/ followed by your username and the CV's link name. You can change the link name in the Link field of the builder. On My CVs, press Copy link to copy it.

A Private CV has no Copy link button.

Your first CV starts as Public. Each CV after that starts as Unlisted, since it is usually for one company. You can change this on any CV at any time.

Open the CV in the builder and, under Who can see it, pick Public (anyone, and search engines), Unlisted (only people with the link) or Private (only you, and recruiters you apply to). Then press Save CV.

Only a Public CV. Public CVs can be found by search engines, which are told your job title, current employer, schools, skills, languages and certifications. Unlisted and Private CVs are never shown in search.

Its owner set it to Private. Only the owner, and recruiters of jobs they applied to with that CV, can open it.

If you have one CV, that one. If you have more than one, the apply window has CV to send, set to your main CV, and you can pick another. The recruiter's applicant list and email link to the CV you sent.

Use Review your CVs in the window to check them first.

The CV you chose to send is empty, and applying shares your CV with the recruiter. Fill it in and save it, then apply again. You are taken to that CV in the builder.

On My CVs, press the delete (bin) button on the CV and confirm. Its link stops working, and you see CV deleted.

The delete button shows only when you have more than one CV.

You always keep at least one CV, because your profile and job applications point to it. So when you have only one CV, it has no delete button. You can clear its content instead, or make it Private.

Your most recently updated other CV becomes your main CV. Check My CVs to make a different one main if you prefer.

When you open your own CV's page while signed in, you see an Edit button beside Download PDF. Others see only Download PDF.

The score runs from 0 to 100. Excellent is 85 and above, Good is 70 and above, Fair is 50 and above, and below 50 is Needs work.

Your CV has no email address. Without an email the score is capped at 49, whatever else is right. Add your email in Personal details and save.

Each point you miss comes with the reason and the fix, ordered by what would add most to your score. Work from the top of the list, save, and watch the score move.

The ATS score looks for a summary of 40 to 120 words.

The score looks for 3 to 6 bullets on your latest role, each starting with an action word and showing a number where you can. Keep each bullet short: bullets over 32 words count against you. Every role should have dates.

CVs are usually written without I or my, so bullets read as short statements of what you did. The score checks for it and points out where to change it.

The ATS score looks for 8 to 30 skills.

It moves as you type, so you see the effect of each change at once. It is stored when you save, and that saved score shows on My CVs.

No. The score follows fixed rules, so the same CV always gets the same score. Nothing about your CV is sent to an AI to score it.

Paste the job ad into Job description in the builder. The ATS score then adds how many of the job's keywords your CV contains, and lists up to 25 keywords as found or missing.

Open the ATS checker, paste your whole CV and, if you like, a job description, and run the check. You get a score with what to fix, and the job's keywords your CV is missing. You do not need an account.

The checker needs at least 200 characters of CV text. Paste your full CV, not just a few lines, and try again.

The CV and the job description can each be up to 30,000 characters. Paste only the CV and the job description, without extra pages.

The checker allows 12 checks a minute per visitor, or 30 a minute when you are signed in. Wait a moment and try again.

No. It is not an official score of any applicant tracking system. It measures how readable and complete your CV is for trackers in general, and how well it matches a job description.

Not in the CV Builder. AI help, such as rewriting a bullet or tailoring a CV to a job, is not available. The ATS score shows what to fix, and you make the changes.

They open your main CV in the builder, so you can add experience, education or other sections there. Those sections then show on your profile.

Yes. Each template has its own page with a sample CV, at CV templates.