Customizing technology categories
Add, rename, reorder, and remove the categories technologies get grouped into on profiles.
Written By Łukasz Myśliński
Last updated 17 days ago
Technologies on a profile — languages, frameworks, databases, tools — can be grouped into categories, like Frontend, Databases, or Cloud Platforms. Every organization starts with a default set of categories, but you can add, rename, reorder, or remove them to match how your team thinks about technical skills.
Where to manage them
Go to Settings → Organization and scroll to the Tech categories section. You'll see a table listing every category currently configured for your organization, in the order they appear in the editor.
Adding, editing, and reordering categories
Add a category
Click Add category.
Enter a display name (e.g. "Cloud & Infra") and a short description. The description matters more than it looks — it's also what our AI extraction uses to decide which technologies belong in this bucket when processing an uploaded CV.
Save. The category is added to the bottom of the list and immediately available in the profile editor.
Edit a category
Open the "..." menu on any row and choose Edit to change its display name or description.
Reorder categories
Use Move up / Move down from the same "..." menu. The order here is the order categories appear in the Technologies section of every profile editor.
Delete a category
Choose Delete from the "..." menu. This only removes the category going forward — it does not touch profiles you've already converted. See the FAQ below for what to do if you want a deleted category's technologies re-sorted.
The "Other" category
Every organization has a permanent Other category that can't be renamed or removed. It's the catch-all for anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.
How this shows up in the editor
📸 Screenshot placeholder: The Technologies section of the profile editor: drag-and-drop category buckets, the 'Manage technology categories' link, and ideally the 'Not in template' warning badge visible on a category the selected template doesn't support.
Your categories appear as drag-and-drop buckets in the Technologies section of the profile editor, in the order you've set. There's a "Manage technology categories" link right there too, so you don't have to leave the editor to find Settings.
How this affects data extraction
When we pull technologies off an uploaded CV automatically, we sort them into your categories using their names and descriptions — not a generic hardcoded list. A clear, specific description (e.g. "Testing frameworks and tools like Jest, Cypress, Selenium" rather than just "Testing") gives more accurate results.
Making categories appear in exported CVs
Categorization affects the editor and data extraction automatically — but not your exported documents. A template only shows a category's technologies if it explicitly references that category by name. Renaming or adding a category doesn't retroactively update templates that were built before the change.
If you use a custom template and want it to reflect your categories, you (or whoever maintains the template) need to add a reference to category_tech.<identifier> for each category you want rendered — see the Template variables reference for the exact syntax.
To help catch this, the profile editor shows a "Not in template" warning badge next to any category your currently selected template doesn't reference — a signal that those technologies won't appear in the exported document until the template is updated.
Limits
Category identifiers (used in templates as
category_tech.<identifier>) are auto-generated from the display name when you create a category — lowercase letters and underscores only, no numbers or hyphens — and can't be edited afterward.Display names are limited to 100 characters.
Descriptions must be between 20 and 500 characters — long enough to meaningfully guide the extraction.