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Timeline
A hairline runs down the section and a filled node marks every role. The dates stay on the right, where they usually are, so the line is added structure rather than a rearrangement.
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
- timeline
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.55 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.20 pt, 1.36 line height
- Face
- Helvetica, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 10.5 pt of Helvetica reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 76 characters, about 38 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 21.84 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.32 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 13 pt. Entry gap 6 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.79 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- entry rail.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #3a35bd, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- Careers that are a sequence rather than a set of parallel roles: research, civil service, consulting.
- Readers who scan for order. The line makes "what came after what" visible at a glance.
- One column, one accent, and a document where the entries are already one line each.
- Documents with four or more roles, where the line is doing real work.
Bad at
- Overlapping roles. A line implies one thing after another, and concurrent work reads as a mistake.
- Sections with a single entry. templates.css only draws the line where there is more than one, so a lone role floats without it.
- A crowded page. A node every four lines is a page of dots.
- Photocopies at low contrast, where a hairline and a 0.4em disc are the first things to go.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, and headings alone on their line. The line and the nodes are drawn with borders and a background, not with characters, so neither reaches the text layer.
The DOM is untouched: title, then dates, then the bullets, in that order. A parser reading top to bottom gets the same stream it would get from a plain page.
The caveat is a reading one. A line that implies sequence will mislead a human reader about overlapping roles, and a human is the one most likely to be reading.
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.
Yusuf Demir
Policy Analyst
- yusuf.demir@example.com
- +90 212 555 0177
- Istanbul, Türkiye
Profile
Policy analyst, seven years in urban transport. Mostly the unglamorous half: modelling what a fare change does to people who do not own a car.
Experience
Istanbul Metropolitan Planning
2021 – Present
Policy Analyst · Istanbul
- Modelled the 2023 fare change; ridership on the cross-city routes rose 9%.
- Wrote the accessibility annexe now cited in two national plans.
Bogazici University
2019 – 2021
Research Assistant · Istanbul
- Built the origin-destination dataset behind three published papers.
Kadikoy Municipality
2018 – 2019
Planning Intern · Istanbul
- Surveyed 40 km of bus priority lane on foot.
Kadıköy Municipality, Istanbul
2016 – 2018
Planning Officer
- Surveyed 40 km of bus priority lane on foot.
Education
Istanbul Technical University
2016 – 2018
M.Sc. Urban Planning
Publications
Languages
- Turkish (native)
- English (fluent)
- German (basic)
Use this template
Opens the builder on Timeline 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 Timeline in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=timeline