Editing or Creating a Resume

… and change the text.

Which is really easy. The blocks of text in the templates are 'placeholder text'. When you click on a block of text, the whole block is highlighted, and the placeholder text will disappear on the first keystroke, giving you an empty space in which to place the information suggested by the header text for that space.

You can enter your personal information directly, or open a 'blank' document in which to compose the text that will go in each block, then copy that text from the composition document and paste it into the appropriate space of the resume template, replacing the placeholder text there.

Regards,

Barry

If you are required to submit a résumé electronically, know beforehand if MS Word .docx, or PDF format is the requirement, and the maximum size accepted. If Word, then it is likely that either the recipient's web front-end will convert it to PDF, or they will be opening it in MS Word (on Windows) if it passes the scan test of the applicant tracking software.

Pages translates the résumé that you write when you export it to Word, and the formatting and content may not look the same to someone opening that Word document in a current version of MS Word. Pages also creates larger Word documents than would MS Word, or even LibreOffice Writer. So use Pages for this purpose at your own risk, if a Word document is the output.

There are different résumé formats and expected content for different industries, and you should also pay careful attention to the asked requirements for any job posting as that may alter your content requirements. I suggest that you visit a library and peruse the current books on résumé formatting, especially those books that discuss electronic submissions and applicant tracking software. What verbs to use, and those that have been overused and now passé.

I never used a "canned" résumé format from some word processing application. I always wrote the first one from scratch, and then modified the original as needed for subsequent submissions. The role of the résumé is a brief marketing tool that speaks to the ask, and not a tell all about you. A human will take less than 5 seconds to scan it for something that makes them stop and read more. Briefly state what you did and the measurable results.

Choose one of the resumé templates in Pages and change the text.