Sharing your CV
There are two ways to put a document in front of someone, and the difference between them is worth knowing before you send the first one.
The public link
On a version, Use as public resume or Use as public CV makes that version the one your public profile URL answers with. Anyone holding that URL can read it — no sign-in, no token, nothing to expire. It's the link for a portfolio site, an email signature, a profile elsewhere.
If you set neither, that URL doesn't work. With no public version, your documents are reachable only through a private link. That is the switch: setting a public version is what makes a document public, and unsetting it takes it back again.
Private links
Share Links creates a separate, unguessable link for one recipient. Each one carries:
- a label, so you know later who it went to
- the version it shows
- Resume (compact) or CV (full)
- HTML to read in a browser, or PDF to download
- an optional visit limit — leave it blank for unlimited
- an optional expiry date
- private notes, which only you ever see
And each one counts its views and records when it was last accessed.
That's the reason to make one per recipient rather than reusing a link: a view count only tells you something when you know whose it is. Delete a link and it stops working immediately.
Which to use
Use the public link when you're publishing — you want it read, you don't care by whom, and you'd rather it not break.
Use a private link when you're sending it to a person: a specific version for a specific company, that you can expire, count, and revoke afterwards. It also means a document tailored to one employer doesn't sit at a permanent address.
Both serve documents from the same profile, so an edit shows up in every link already sent. That is usually what you want — a typo fixed everywhere — but it's worth remembering that a link you sent last month does not show what it showed last month. See Resumes & CVs for how versions decide what a document prints.