October 28, 2026
Starting a resume page from a blank form is the most tedious part of the whole process, and it's avoidable if you already have something to start from. The "Import" button in the resume switcher takes either a PDF resume or a LinkedIn data export and turns it into a prefilled draft — your work history, education, and skills already in place, ready to edit rather than retype.
Two sources: a PDF of an existing resume, or the ZIP file LinkedIn gives you under Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data. That LinkedIn export isn't one clean file — it's a bundle of CSVs — so the import reads the Profile, Positions, Education, and Skills files out of the ZIP specifically and ignores the rest. Either way, you pick the source in the modal before choosing a file, since a PDF and a LinkedIn export are parsed differently under the hood.
The PDF or ZIP is never uploaded as a file. Your browser extracts the raw text locally — reading the PDF's pages, or unzipping the LinkedIn CSVs — and only that extracted text gets sent to the server to be structured into resume fields. The file itself stays on your machine; what leaves it is plain text, the same as if you'd copied and pasted it in yourself.
The result is a new resume, prefilled and ready to look over — it's not saved until you say so, and nothing about the import skips the review step. Dates, bullet splits, and skill groupings all come from a best-effort read of messy source text (a one-page PDF or a LinkedIn CSV wasn't written to be machine-parsed), so check names, dates, and bullet points before you publish the page. Treat it as a fast first draft, not a finished one: it saves you the retyping, not the editing.
Import runs on the same built-in AI assistant as the rest of the editor, which makes it a Premium feature — it counts against the same monthly quota as the writing assistant and the job-description match check. If you're on the free tier, typing in your experience by hand still gets you the same live resume page and PDF export; import just saves the retyping for anyone who already has a resume or LinkedIn profile to start from.