Involve Resume help
How to use Involve Resume
Short, procedural pages: what to press, what happens next, and what the product will refuse to do. If something here does not match what you see, tell us. Longer background reading lives in the guides.
- Getting startedWhat the product is, and the first fifteen minutes.
- The Chrome extensionInstalling it, what it may do, and what to check when it looks dead.
- Tailoring and approvalHow a document is changed, what you are shown, and what you approve.
- ApplyingThe routes an application can take, and the boards that refuse each one.
- The trackerStages, importing what you already keep, and chasing.
- ScoresThe two numbers, the checks behind them, and what a recruiter sees.
- AccountPlans, credits, cancelling and your data.
- TroubleshootingSymptom, likely cause, fix.
Getting started
What the product is, and the first fifteen minutes.
- Getting startedWhat Involve Resume doesThe three things Involve Resume does, what is free and what is paid, and what it will never do. Read this first.
- Getting startedCreate an account and upload your resumeSign in with Google or Microsoft, add your resume, and check what we read. Four steps. Most people skip step three, so do not.
- Getting startedGet your first match scorePick one job, score your resume against it, and learn what the two numbers and the word list mean. About five minutes. You need a paid plan.
The Chrome extension
Installing it, what it may do, and what to check when it looks dead.
- The Chrome extensionInstall the Chrome extensionAdd it from the store, send it your resume, and turn on the score for one job site. Also: how to install it on a work or school computer that blocks the store.
- The Chrome extensionWhat the extension permissions are forEvery permission the extension asks for, what it is used for, and how to take a site back. It ships with access to no job board at all.
- The Chrome extensionUse the extension on a job pageScore the posting you are reading, fill the application form in front of you, and read what the popup is telling you afterwards.
- The Chrome extensionWhen the extension looks blankNine reasons the extension looks dead on a page, how to tell them apart in one glance, and the fix for each one.
Tailoring and approval
How a document is changed, what you are shown, and what you approve.
- Tailoring and approvalHow tailoring worksThe three things tailoring may do to your resume, the one thing it never does, and the order of the screens from job ad to file.
- Tailoring and approvalRead the before and after diffEvery change is shown next to the line it replaces, with a reason that names two words. How to read the changes, and when to say no to one.
- Tailoring and approvalWhen the fabrication guard blocks a changeThe six rules that make us throw a rewrite away, what it means for your resume, and three honest ways to get the point onto the page.
- Tailoring and approvalWhy no change is final without youWhere you approve things, what each approval protects you from, and the one case where software presses submit, and how to know you turned it on.
Applying
The routes an application can take, and the boards that refuse each one.
- ApplyingAutofill vs auto-applyTwo different things with similar names. One fills in forms and leaves them for you. The other sends them. Which plan has which, and the limits on both.
- ApplyingWhich boards support which routeThe four ways to apply, which job sites use each one, why some sites can be filled in but not sent, and which sites we refuse to automate.
- ApplyingWhy LinkedIn is never automatedWe block LinkedIn in three places for one reason: if LinkedIn restricts an account, it is yours. What we do there instead.
- ApplyingApply by hand on a manual boardThe copy screen shows your answers in the same order as the job site's form. How to use it, and how to add the job to your tracker afterwards.
The tracker
Stages, importing what you already keep, and chasing.
- The trackerTracker stages, end to endThe ten stages, the three kinds they group into, what each card records, and the five counters across the top of the board.
- The trackerImport and export the trackerBring in the spreadsheet you already keep, choose add or replace, and take the whole board out again as Excel or CSV with the same columns.
- The trackerUse the chase panelFour time limits decide when an application is worth a follow-up, where those numbers come from, and why no row changes stage by itself.
Scores
The two numbers, the checks behind them, and what a recruiter sees.
- ScoresFit vs resume readinessWhy you get two numbers instead of one: a weak resume and a weak background need different fixes. The four combinations, and what to do in each.
- ScoresWhat the checkers doThree different checks look at three different things. Which one is about your history, and which one is about the resume we made.
- ScoresWhat recruiters actually seeThe employer gets your file and whatever their software reads from it. They do not get your scores, your list of changes, or the fact that you used a tool.
Account
Plans, credits, cancelling and your data.
- AccountPlans, credits and what each tier unlocksWhat is free, what the one-off credit buys, the four plans, the six permissions behind them, and where we count your usage.
- AccountCancel your subscriptionWhere the cancel control is, what happens to your account afterwards, and the answers on refunds, plan changes and the one-off credit.
- AccountYour data, and how to delete itWhat is held, what never leaves your browser, the two buttons that download or delete all of it, and what the extension keeps on your machine.
Troubleshooting
Symptom, likely cause, fix.
- TroubleshootingTroubleshooting: symptom, cause, fixOne table per topic. Find your problem, read the likely cause, and try the fix. Sign-in, your resume, scores, the extension, applying, the tracker and paying.
- TroubleshootingFix a document that parses badlyWhen the check screen shows jumbled jobs or missing dates, the cause is usually the layout of your original file. Six fixes, in order.