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Getting started·1 min read

Setting up your profile

What to fill in first, and why the order matters more than the completeness bar suggests.

Your profile is the thing everything else is seeded from. A CV built from a filled-in profile starts with your real work history rather than a blank page, and the tailoring tools have something to re-frame.

Worth doing first

  1. 1Add your name, headline and contact details in Settings.
  2. 2Add your work history — roles, dates and what you actually did in each.
  3. 3Add skills. These are what employers search on, so be specific: 'PostgreSQL' finds you, 'databases' does not.
  4. 4Add a photo if you want one. Several CV templates have a slot for it; the ATS-safe PDF never includes it.

Skills verified by an interview or assessment on Winkle are marked as verified when an employer looks at you. You cannot mark your own skills verified, and renaming a skill does not carry the mark across.

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