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. Where a page describes something the code does not do, the page is the thing that is wrong. 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 jobs the product does, where each one runs, what it costs, and the things it refuses to do at all. Read this before anything else.
- Getting startedCreate an account and upload your CVSign up, confirm the email, upload one document, and check what was read off it. Five steps, and the fourth is the one people skip.
- Getting startedGet your first match scorePick one posting, score your CV against it, and read the two numbers and the term list. About five minutes, and it needs 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, sync one resume, and turn the score on for one board. Includes the unpacked route for a managed machine.
- 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 shows nothingNine 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 is allowed to do to your CV, the one thing it is not, and the order the screens go in from posting 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 it, and when to reject one.
- Tailoring and approvalWhen the fabrication guard blocks a changeThe six rules that make a rewrite get thrown away, what the refusal means about your document, and the three honest ways to get the point onto the page.
- Tailoring and approvalWhy nothing finalises without youWhere the approval points are, what each one is protecting, and the one route where a machine 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 forms and leaves them for you, the other submits. Which plan has which, and the limits on both.
- ApplyingWhich boards support which routeThe four routes, the boards behind each one, why a board can be filled but not sent, and what the refused list is actually refusing.
- ApplyingWhy LinkedIn is never automatedLinkedIn is blocked in three places for one reason: the account that gets restricted is yours. What the product does there instead.
- ApplyingApply by hand on a manual boardThe copy-out screen lays your answers out in that board's own field order. How to use it, and how to get the job onto the 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 thresholds decide when a row is worth a nudge, where those numbers come from, and why nothing moves stage on its own.
Scores
The two numbers, the checks behind them, and what a recruiter sees.
- ScoresFit vs CV readinessTwo numbers instead of one, because a weak document and a weak background need opposite responses. The four combinations, and what to do in each.
- ScoresWhat the checkers doThree different checks run on three different documents. Which one is telling you about your history and which is telling you about our output.
- ScoresWhat recruiters actually seeThe employer receives a file and whatever their system extracted from it. They do not receive your scores, your diff, or the fact 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 tiers, the six permissions behind them, and where the counting actually happens.
- 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 area. Find the symptom, read the likely cause, do the fix. Sign-in, the resume, scores, the extension, applying, the tracker and billing.
- TroubleshootingFix a document that parses badlyWhen the parse screen shows scrambled roles or missing dates, the cause is usually the layout of the original file. Six fixes, in order.