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To modify a CV you have stored on your Account, you must first make any changes on the CV document saved on your own PC. Alternatively, you may wish to create a new document. Once the changes are done, you can upload the new CV. Any previously stored CV will be overwritten as a result.

To change or edit your details you will then need to login to your account:

Scroll to the CV Management section on your account page.
Select "Edit your CV"
Scroll to the bottom of the "CV Edit" page and locate the "Browse" button - you will be prompted to search your PC or Disk for your CV
Once selected, click the "Save Now" to store your CV. It will now be checked by our system for any viruses.

The formatting may get changed by the upload process or the CV rejected completely if it has complicated formatting in it. To ensure the layout of your CV is compatible with our system, please follow the guidelines below:

Keep the layout of your CV as simple as possible.
Avoid 'unnecessary' decorations.
Avoid the use of Text Boxes: these do not convert well into simple text or html formats, sometimes becoming blank.
Avoid the use of graphics. Again these will not appear in simple text or html versions of your CV. They also make the MSWord documents very large.
Avoid using multiple tabs to arrange text, instead use a single tab with the correct tab setting. In the text version the tabs may convert to varying numbers of spaces. In html format the multiple tabs may force the text to wrap unpredictably over multiple lines.
Avoid using tables.
Avoid using multi-column page layouts.
Avoid multi-sectioned documents.
Don't password protect your CV.
Don't embed other documents.

After editing your CV (on your local machine) you could check the layout in html format by doing the following:

Save the document (say cv.doc)
Save the same document as a web page (say cv.htm).
Open this new file using your browser.
Change the proportions of the browser window so that the viewed window is roughly square.
If the layout is satisfactory then use cv.doc in My ScotRecruit. If the layout is unsatisfactory then modify the layout of the original MSWord document and repeat the process.