[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":113},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fshare-resume-pdf-link":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":95,"extension":96,"faq":97,"meta":107,"navigation":108,"path":109,"seo":110,"stem":111,"__hash__":112},"content\u002Fshare-resume-pdf-link.md","Share your résumé without making the doc public",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":88},"minimark",[9,13,17,25,28,33,41,44,48,51,54,58,75],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"share-your-résumé-without-making-the-doc-public",[14,15,16],"p",{},"Recruiters want a link. Application forms want a link. Your LinkedIn profile wants a link. And your résumé lives in a Google Doc, so the obvious move is to hit Share, switch it to “Anyone with the link”, and paste the URL.",[14,18,19,20,24],{},"Except now your résumé is a public Google Doc. Whoever opens it sees a document, not a résumé: they can watch your mid-edit typos in real time, read any comments you left yourself, and the URL is a ",[21,22,23],"code",{},"docs.google.com"," address with a forty-character ID in it. It reads as a draft, even when it isn’t.",[14,26,27],{},"The alternative, attaching a PDF to every application, has the opposite problem: within a month there are a dozen slightly different copies of you in a dozen inboxes, and none of them are current.",[29,30,32],"h2",{"id":31},"a-clean-pdf-a-private-doc","A clean PDF, a private doc",[14,34,35,40],{},[36,37,39],"a",{"href":38},"\u002F","via"," gives you one stable PDF link for the doc. Your résumé stays private in your Drive; via only gets read access to that one doc, picked through Google’s own file chooser. Anyone opening the link receives a freshly exported PDF of the current version, no Google account needed.",[14,42,43],{},"Recruiters see exactly what you’d have attached, minus the staleness: a proper PDF, not a live document with its seams showing.",[29,45,47],{"id":46},"one-link-everywhere","One link everywhere",[14,49,50],{},"Put the same link in your LinkedIn profile, your email signature, and every application. When you tweak the doc, every copy out there is current on the next open. Nobody has to re-download anything, and you never chase down old versions.",[14,52,53],{},"That matters most mid-process: fix a typo or add a project the day after you apply, and the recruiter who opens your link on Thursday sees Thursday’s résumé.",[29,55,57],{"id":56},"the-details","The details",[59,60,61,69,72],"ul",{},[62,63,64,65,68],"li",{},"On the paid plan you can claim a custom URL like ",[21,66,67],{},"getvia.io\u002Fd\u002Fyour-name",", which looks a lot better in a signature than a random string.",[62,70,71],{},"You can pause the link when you’re not looking, and bring it back on the same URL.",[62,73,74],{},"The free plan is one link, forever. One résumé, one link: that’s the whole use case.",[14,76,77,78,82,83,87],{},"If you’re still weighing options, here’s the bigger picture on ",[36,79,81],{"href":80},"\u002Fshare-google-doc-as-pdf-link","sharing a Google Doc as a PDF link",", including why the popular ",[36,84,86],{"href":85},"\u002Fgoogle-docs-export-format-pdf","export?format=pdf trick"," makes your doc public and breaks the moment you start a fresh document.",{"title":89,"searchDepth":90,"depth":90,"links":91},"",2,[92,93,94],{"id":31,"depth":90,"text":32},{"id":46,"depth":90,"text":47},{"id":56,"depth":90,"text":57},"Get one résumé link for every profile and application. Readers see a clean PDF while your Google Doc stays private in your Drive.","md",[98,101,104],{"q":99,"a":100},"Is my Google Doc made public?","No. Your doc stays private in your Drive with its sharing settings untouched. via only gets read access to the doc you pick, and readers only receive a PDF export.",{"q":102,"a":103},"Do recruiters need a Google account?","No. The link serves a plain PDF that opens in any browser.",{"q":105,"a":106},"What happens when I update my résumé mid-application?","Nothing to do. The next visit to your link serves the updated version automatically.",{},true,"\u002Fshare-resume-pdf-link",{"title":5,"description":95},"share-resume-pdf-link","1yneq7J4YKxqT3yaj-WsGmbve9_bxYJr7nwla60mmhk",1784301667095]