Import first, then edit by hand — that is the fastest path and the two are not exclusive. An import takes about 30 seconds and seeds your basics, experience and skills; the depth that makes your profile answer questions well still has to be typed. Nothing is written to your profile until you review the extraction and click Apply to profile.
Detail
What import does well. Accepted files are PDF or DOCX up to 10 MB (PDFs up to 50 pages). Analysis usually takes 5–15 seconds, and you can import up to 5 times in a rolling 24-hour period. A review screen shows everything found — Basic Profile, Professional Summary, Experience, Skills — before anything is saved.
What it deliberately does not do. The extractor is conservative by design. It will not mark a skill "strong" just because it appears in a list, so unsure skills land as "moderate", and it leaves years blank rather than guess. Your main cleanup after an import is usually to promote the skills you genuinely are strong in up to the Strong column — publishing needs at least three Strong skills, and a conservative import can start you below that line.
Also check imported dates and names. If a start date could not be read the import may fall back to today’s date, and a missing company or title becomes "Unknown Company" or "Unknown Role". These are easy to spot in the Experience tab.
Building by hand is the right choice if your résumé is badly out of date, or if the roles you want to talk about are not the ones on it. It is full control and it is slower.
Talk it out is a third option on Pro: an AI voice interview, around 15 minutes, that builds the profile from a conversation.
⚠ If you import a second time, read the warning first. A second import appends rather than replaces — it adds every extracted role and skill alongside what you already have.
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Last verified: 2026-08-18