The page format sets the size of your resume’s pages in the preview and in the exported PDF. Hiresweep has three: A4, Letter and Free-form. New resumes start on A4.

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Change the format

1

Open the Page group

In the builder, select the Design tab of the Edit panel and scroll to Page.
2

Choose a format

Open Format and choose A4, Letter or Free-form.
3

Check the preview

The preview updates at once. Check where the pages now break.
You can switch formats at any time. Your content stays the same; only the page size changes.

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The formats

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Free-form

Free-form keeps the A4 width but drops the fixed height. Each page in your layout becomes one long page that grows to fit its content, and is never shorter than an A4 page. With a single layout page, the PDF is one continuous page with no page breaks. Applicant tracking systems read the text in a PDF, not its page size, so a Free-form resume parses the same way as an A4 or Letter one. Choose A4 or Letter instead when someone may print the resume, or when a job posting asks for a set number of pages.
When you switch from Free-form to A4 or Letter, content that no longer fits continues on an extra page. Check the page breaks before you export. See Fitting content on a page.

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Which format to pick

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Example PDFs

A4 example

A sample resume on A4 pages, with normal page breaks.

Free-form example

The same kind of resume as one continuous page.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. They read the text of the PDF, not the page dimensions.
The DOCX export uses Letter pages when the format is Letter and A4 pages otherwise, including for Free-form. The JSON backup stores the format, so it comes back when you import the file.
Use A4 or Letter and make sure everything fits on page 1. The label above each page in the preview, for example Page 1 of 2, shows how many pages the resume has. See Fitting content on a page.