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LinkedIn's Resume Builder is a tool that takes the content from your LinkedIn profile and automatically formats it as a professionally-designed resume.
How it Works
Log in to LinkedIn, click on to the LinkedIn resume tool and sign in with your LinkedIn passport.
When you select one of the preset templates it will automatically input all the information from your LinkedIn profile into properly formatted categories. There are eleven different templates to suit your industry, purpose and seniority.
Open text fields allow you to fill in the blanks with more detailed skills, honours, and associations. You retain full control over the resume's outline and can edit, add, or remove parts at will. The one thing you cannot do in the resume builder tool is to change specific details like job titles, dates and so on - this is done on your regular LinkedIn profile and updated automatically to your resume.
The Advantages
If you're looking to simplify your resume-building process and like to use LinkedIn, the automated resume can be a useful tool.
LinkedIn hosts previous versions of your resume and makes it easy to share the resume straight from the application or you can set it to private.
The template format makes it very easy to ensure that you produce a well presented and professional looking document
Finally, you can download your new CV as a PDF and email or print.
The Disadvantages
If your LinkedIn profile is written the way it should be, it won’t translate into a good resume because the rules for LinkedIn's online world are different to the rules for resumes.
LinkedIn is different because web communication is more informal than print based communication forms. LinkedIn profiles frequently use the word I, the tone is more conversational, even humourous at times, and position descriptions are far more concise than in a resume (because people don’t like to read long blocks of text on the web). Unfortunately this style doesn't match with the conventions that many recruiters and hiring managers expect you to follow. For example resumes should be written in the third person (never use the word “I”), omit ‘a’ and ‘the’ for clarity and use professional, crisp language.
You will still need to do a lot of editing (rewriting)to convert your LinkedIn resume into an acceptable format for recruiters and employers. It's unlikely the format will work well with automated applicant systems either.
No matter how automated the system or beautiful the format there's still no shortcut to producing a well written resume.
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