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Hairline
A hairline between every job and nothing between anything else. The divider takes the space the gap used to take rather than adding to it, so a reader still sees where one role ends.
The numbers
Every figure below is a value in the template registry the builder ships (assets/js/render/templates.js), or a size derived from it by the same multipliers the document stylesheet uses. Body text is not the preset’s nominal point size: it is that figure corrected for the face’s optical size, which is why a 10 pt Helvetica preset renders at 11.73 pt here. Nothing on this page is a measured pass rate or a hiring outcome, because neither exists.
- Builder id
- hairline
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.6 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10.50 pt, 1.38 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 80 characters, about 40 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 20.47 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 14.36 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 14 pt. Entry gap 5.25 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.68 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- entry hair.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #4d5666, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- Many short roles on one page, where a divider is faster to scan than a change in spacing.
- A page that will be read in a browser, where hairlines render at a predictable weight.
- Documents with little colour, which is a quiet way of saying print-safe without the rules.
- Recruiting and HR, where a lot of people have a lot of short roles and the page has to hold them.
Bad at
- Print, where a hairline is the first thing to disappear and the page becomes a dense block of text.
- Four or five roles. The dividers only earn their keep where there are enough entries to need them.
- A reader with a vision impairment, for whom a hairline is a hairline and a gap would have been a gap.
- A dense page, because the divider adds a line of ink to every entry on it.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, no colour, and a heading alone on its line. It is one of the plainest documents in the set.
The divider is a border on the entry, and a border on a block is invisible to a text extractor. The spacing is moved into the padding rather than removed, which is why the reader can still see where a job ends.
This is the closest thing in the set to a one-column twin of rail, and it is the one to pick if the document is long and a parser may be reading it.
Still yours to get right
A clean layout with a placeholder employer named “Company 1” is still a document a parser discards. No template can fix a sentence that describes effort instead of effect. Start with the resume basics guide and the one on quantifying impact.
Priyanka Shah
Technical Recruiter
- priyanka.shah@example.com
- +44 20 5550 0188
- London, United Kingdom
Profile
Technical recruiter, eight years, infrastructure and platform roles. Placed 140 engineers, which is a number with a shape.
Experience
Harrow Talent
2021 – Present
Technical Recruiter · London
- Own infrastructure and platform hiring for three clients.
- Average time to fill 34 days against a market average of 61.
Northgate Search
2019 – 2021
Recruiter · London
- Ran a 40-desk desk across four countries.
Kestrel Digital
2017 – 2019
Researcher · Bristol
- Built the first mapping for the UK infrastructure market.
Sable Search, Bristol
2017 – 2019
Researcher
- Built the first mapping for the UK infrastructure market.
Education
University of Bristol
2013 – 2017
B.Sc. Computer Science
Languages
- English (native)
- Portuguese (fluent)
Method
- Sourcing
- Boolean search, market mapping
- Tools
- Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter
Use this template
Opens the builder on Hairline with the build dialog in front of you. The document on the page is the document that exports; there is no separate form to keep in sync with it.
Open Hairline in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=hairline