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Choose which skills are added from a resume

You decide whether skills from a resume are added to the profile, only suggested, or left out. You also decide whether years of experience are filled in next to each skill. Both settings are in General settings.

Written by Jan Alexander Jedlinski

Who it's for: Owners and Admins. The setting applies to your whole company.

Steps

  1. Click your name at the bottom left, then Settings.

  2. Under General, click General settings. The Candidate profiles tab opens.

    General settings with Candidate skills behavior highlighted

  3. Under Candidate skills behavior, pick one:

    • Add main skills automatically (the default)

    • Only suggest skills to be added

    • Do not add or suggest any skills

  4. Under Skill experience information, pick one:

    • Include years of experience where available (the default)

    • Do not pre-fill years of experience

  5. A bar appears at the bottom once you change something. Click Save changes, or Cancel to drop the change.

    Save changes bar after changing a setting

Result

Resumes you upload from now on use the new setting. With Only suggest skills to be added, the skills found are listed under "Suggested skills (found on CV/resume)" in the profile editor, and you pick the ones to add.

Change skills on one profile

  1. Open the profile and click Edit.

  2. Scroll to the skills section. Under Add skills (optional), click a suggested skill to add it, or type a skill in the field "Skill (ex: Data Analysis)".

    Skills editor with "Suggested skills (found on CV/resume)" highlighted

  3. For each skill you can pick the experience under Experience (optional), drag it into another order, or remove it with the red X.

  4. Click Update profile.

Credits: Changing skills counts as an edit. The next export of that profile uses 1 credit.

Common questions

How do I remove the years next to skills?

For new resumes, set Skill experience information to Do not pre-fill years of experience. For a profile you already have, edit its skills in the profile editor.

Skills are missing from a new profile.

Check Candidate skills behavior. If it's set to Do not add or suggest any skills, no skills are added.

Can I add a skill the resume doesn't mention?

Yes. Edit the profile and type it in the skills section.

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