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Give every job seeker a resume builder
that prints the same way every time.

Describe the people you coach and Netiva’s AI builds the web app: guided sections, a draft saved for each signed-in user, coach reviews and a print view that holds its layout.

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Starter prompt

Build a resume builder web app for a college career center. Job seekers sign in and see only their own resumes. Keep the sections — summary, experience, education, skills, certifications — as records, each with guidance and a print order, and store every job as an entry with employer, title, start and end month, hours per week and achievement lines. Each resume has a title, a target role, a template and a status: Draft, Ready for review, In review or Final, plus a one-column print view sized for Letter or A4. Coaches work a queue of resumes marked Ready for review and return comments listed by section heading.

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Overview

Who this resume builder is for

A career coach can explain what belongs in a work-experience bullet 20 times a week and still get back a document with three fonts and a two-column layout that splits in half when it prints. The files scatter too: one copy in an email thread, one on a desktop, one named final-v3. A resume builder built with Netiva keeps your section guidance and each person’s entries as records they sign in to edit, lays them out in the template you picked and gives every draft a print view that comes out the same way each time.

Key features

What your resume builder can do

  • Guided sections and entries

    Each section carries a line of guidance you write once — what a summary is for, how long a bullet should run — and every job, degree or certificate is stored as its own entry rather than a block of typing.

    • Guidance under each section, edited in the collection grid
    • One entry per job, degree, project or certificate
    • Start and end months, with an entry left open for current work
    • Empty sections dropped from the page instead of printing blank

  • A print view that holds its layout

    Every resume has a page sized for Letter or A4 that the browser saves as a PDF. You steer the margins, the type scale and where a page breaks by marking up the preview until it looks right.

    • One column of real text, not a picture of a page
    • No page break between an entry and its bullets
    • Letter and A4 from the same template
    • Two or three templates to pick between per resume

  • A private draft for every person

    Job seekers sign in with their own account and each one sees only their own resumes, so a draft started on a library computer is still there the next morning, at whatever stage they left it.

    • Sign-in accounts for the people you coach
    • Draft, Ready for review, In review and Final statuses
    • A master resume duplicated and tailored per application
    • Target role kept on each copy so versions stay apart

  • Review queues and reminders

    When a resume is marked Ready for review it joins a queue your coaches work through. Comments are recorded against the resume, and scheduled email takes care of the chasing.

    • Filtered and sorted in the collection grid, saved as a view per coach
    • Comments returned with the review, listed under the headings they refer to
    • Weekly email to each coach listing what is waiting
    • Reminder before a career fair or an application deadline
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Sections

The headings a resume prints, in order, with the guidance that sits under each one.

  • Name (required) Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, Projects, Certifications Text
  • Order (required) Where it prints and where the guided editor puts it Number
  • Guidance (required) The line that prints under the heading in the editor Paragraph
  • Shows on templates Which templates print it — Chronological, Combination or Federal Text
  • Hide when empty Yes or No; a section with no entries drops off the page Text

Resumes

Each resume someone is working on, including copies tailored to one job.

  • Owner email (required) The signed-in account it belongs to; each person sees only their own Text
  • Title (required) How the owner tells versions apart, not what prints Text
  • Target role Text
  • Cohort Spring 2027 cohort, adult retraining or members Text
  • Coach email The coach’s signed-in account; the review queue filters on it Text
  • Template (required) One of Chronological, Combination or Federal; the value picks the print layout Text
  • Status (required) Draft, Ready for review, In review or Final; In review once a review record opens Text
  • Contact block Name, city, email and phone as they should print Paragraph

Entries

Every job, degree, project, skill and certificate, each under one section of one resume.

  • Resume (required) Relation to Resumes
  • Section (required) Picks the heading it prints under and where it falls on the page Relation to Sections
  • Organization Employer, school or client; blank for skills and personal projects Text
  • Role or title Series and grade go here on a federal resume Text
  • Started Month and year is enough on most resumes Date
  • Ended Left blank while the work is current Date
  • Hours per week Asked for on federal resumes; hidden on the others Number
  • Details One achievement per line; a single line for a skill or a certificate Paragraph

Reviews

A coach’s pass over one resume and what still needs changing.

  • Resume (required) Relation to Resumes
  • Reviewer email (required) Filled in from the signed-in coach Text
  • Requested on (required) Date & time
  • Due by Sorts the queue ahead of a fair or a closing date Date
  • Status (required) Requested, In review or Returned; opened when a resume is marked Ready for review Text
  • Comments What to change, written under the section headings and returned to the owner Paragraph

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • My resumes

    Everything the signed-in person has started: title, target role, status, the latest review status and the comments that came back, plus a button to begin another.

    Signed-in users

  • Guided editor

    Section by section with the guidance beside each, entries added and dated newest first, the last review’s comments under each heading and a live look at how it prints.

    Signed-in users

  • Print view

    The finished page at Letter or A4 size, ready for the browser’s print dialog to save as a PDF or send to a printer.

    Signed-in users

  • Templates

    Sample layouts and who each suits — Chronological for a steady work history, Combination for a career change, Federal for USAJOBS — so someone picks a format before typing.

    Public

  • Review queue

    Open review records, soonest Due by first, narrowed to one coach or one cohort, each opening on the entries to comment on.

    Your team

  • Cohort progress

    How far one program has got: whose resume is still a draft, who is waiting on a review and who reached Final before the fair.

    Your team
How it works

From prompt to a live resume builder

  1. Describe who you coach

    Tell Netiva whether you work with students, clients or members, which sections a resume should hold and who reviews them. The agent drafts collections for sections, resumes, entries and reviews.

  2. Write your guidance once

    Type the note that sits under each section into the collection grid, or paste the wording from your existing handouts into the collection assistant and ask it to draft the guidance and a sample resume for you to correct.

  3. Fill one in as a job seeker

    In the live preview, sign in as a test student, add two jobs and open the print view. Mark up anything that wraps badly and the agent fixes the template while you watch.

  4. Publish and hand out the link

    Publish in one click, put it on your own domain from the Starter plan and switch on the review emails. Every change is checkpointed, so a template edit that goes wrong is easy to undo.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a resume builder with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Resume formatting Entries are records the template lays out, so the page prints the same way every time Margins, tabs and a two-column layout fought over in a word processor file
Feedback rounds A review record on the resume, with a status and comments both sides can see Comments in a tracked-changes file or an email thread, with no record of what was asked for or whether it was done
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A community college career center

    Advisors want everyone in the spring cohort to have a reviewed resume before the campus fair. The cohort page shows whose resume is still a draft, and the queue is sorted by the fair date rather than by who asked first.

  • A career coach with a private client list

    Clients keep one master resume and a tailored copy per application, each with its own target role. The coach works through the queue in the morning, comments on two or three and the app emails each client that a review came back.

  • A trade association job board

    Members get a resume tool next to the listings. They build a resume, save the print view as a PDF and attach it to applications elsewhere, and the board keeps nothing for employers to browse.

Good to know

Before you build

  • Resumes are personal data with an end date

    Ask for what the resume itself needs and nothing beyond it — no date of birth, no identity numbers. Let people delete their own drafts and account, and set a retention window so records for people who left the program years ago are removed.

  • No template can promise a clean parse

    Employers read applications through systems that pull the text back out of a file. One column, real text and plain headings travel better than columns and graphics, but save the print view as a PDF and read it back before a whole cohort relies on it.

  • Federal resumes are capped at two pages

    USAJOBS will not accept or build a federal resume longer than two pages, so that template has to fit more detail into less space. It also tells applicants to leave out photos, age, sex, religious affiliation and Social Security numbers, worth carrying into the print view.

  • Files in, files out

    Netiva doesn’t read an old resume file and turn it into entries, so people start from the guided sections or paste their text in. For a file generated on the server, the app can call a document provider’s REST API with your key stored securely.

Compliance note

A resume holds a name, a phone number, an address and a work history that belong to the person who wrote it. Collect what the resume needs, let people delete their own drafts and account, then agree a retention period for records that go quiet. At a college, FERPA rights sit with the enrolled student, so check with your registrar before a resume or a cohort list leaves the app for an employer. The app records your process; it doesn’t make it lawful.

FAQ

Questions about building a resume builder

Can job seekers save a draft and come back to it later?

Yes. Each person signs in with their own account and sees only their own resumes, so a draft started in the library on Tuesday is waiting on Thursday. Work is kept as they go, and every resume carries a status — Draft, Ready for review, In review or Final — so the coach and the job seeker both know where it stands.

How does a finished resume become a PDF?

Each resume gets a print view: a page sized for Letter or A4 with one column, real text and page breaks placed where you want them. From there the browser’s print dialog saves it as a PDF or sends it to a printer. If you need the file generated on the server instead, the app can call a document provider’s REST API with your key stored securely.

Can someone keep several versions tailored to different jobs?

Yes. Ask the agent for a button that copies a resume together with its entries. The copy takes its own title and target role, so a warehouse version and an office version sit side by side under one account. Editing or removing an entry on one copy leaves the other alone, and a coach can see which version went where.

Will a resume built here work with applicant tracking systems?

It has a fair chance if the layout stays plain: one column, standard headings such as Experience and Education, real text rather than a picture of a page and no tables or text boxes. No template can promise how a particular system reads a file, so save the print view as a PDF, open it and check the text is selectable and in the right order.

Can we support federal resumes for USAJOBS?

You can build a template for them, but keep it to two pages: USAJOBS will not accept or build a federal resume longer than that. Each job has to show the employer, the job title, start and end dates with the month and year, the hours worked per week and a description matching the level in the announcement, plus series and grade for federal jobs. Hours per week and month-level dates are already entry fields.

Can we run it on our own domain and keep the code?

Yes to both. Build and preview on the free plan; publishing on your own domain — a careers subdomain of a college or association site, say — needs the Starter plan or higher, and you add the DNS records Netiva lists at your registrar. Netiva writes clean production code you can read, edit and export whenever you want, with no proprietary runtime to leave behind.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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