Product Updates

Fall 2023

Resume Import Enhancements

Several changes have been made to improve the import process for MyData builder and reduce the time it takes to create your first resume. Highlights include:

• Error recognition highlights problems with the import before you can continue.

• Font recognition for numbers resolves issue where some numeric values were not recognized by the resume import.

• Improved location recognition with change to Google Maps

• New fields added to import process:

  • Education section

    • Program/degree

    • Location of institution

    • Field of Study

  • Experience section

    • Position (used internally for skill matching)

Cover Letter Enhancements

The ability to generate a cover letter using AI was added. This feature uses details from MyData portfolio to customize a cover letter specifically for you. The cover letter can be regenerated as many times as you want or manually updated to tailor it to your exact requirements.

Resume Settings

Added additional settings to tailor your resume:

• Display date formats as MM/YYYY (eg, 09/2023) or MON 9999 (eg, SEP 2023).

• Display skill formats separated by commas or bulleted lists.

Mobile Device Enhancements

Improved the user interface on mobile devices to swipe rather than scroll for resume management. This makes the hold and drag section functionality work more smoothly.

General Enhancements

• More user choice ‒ updated templates with different fonts

• Change resume titles to quickly identify custom resumes

• Hide/show Login password

• Change password moved to Security section under user profile

• High School education examples now relate to high school experience

• Enhanced password functionality locks out user after too many failed attempts

• Enhanced password functionality prevents re-use of old passwords

Spring 2023

Template settings

In templates, there is now a settings option to customize a specific resume. With this option you can customize the color for headings, add shading to headings, and make the shading corners squared or rounded.

The ability to customize the color of the main body text has also been added. The color options lets you pick from a set color palette or select any color you prefer.

Once you have customized a template, you have the option to choose the “apply to all” option to apple the settings to all templates for that resume.

Resume settings

In the resumes tab there is now a resume settings option that allows you to display additional date and competency details on a given resume. The details you can select are:

• Date
  • Display months on work experience
  • Display months on education
  • Display start date on education experience
• Competencies
  • Show competency levels on technical skills
  • Show competency levels on languages

Cover letter

Create a cover letter for your resume. In the MyData™ Portfolio tab click or tap the cover letter option in the left hand menu. A cover letter can attach to a resume and will show up as the first page of the resume, even when you download or print your resume, provided the cover letter is set to visible. Note: Only one cover letter can be selected per resume.

Cover letter suggestions

Select the suggestion wizard to generate a cover letter based on data from your resume. The wizard will put the contents in the text box, where you can edit for accuracy and clarity.

Section visibility warning

In the resume view you will see a warning if you try to toggle on/off individual visibility when a section’s visibility is toggled off.