StretchLearn Course

Design a resume recruiters read in six seconds

Career timelines, honest skills charts, icon achievements, and a matching LinkedIn banner

Beginner9 hrSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This hands-on course teaches the information-design craft behind a visual resume, the difference between a decorative CV that gets binned and a one-page infographic that wins a six-second scan. You will build a single-column or two-column timeline, choose an honest skills visualisation (radar, bar, or dot matrix) over fake percentages, turn achievements into icon-led stat blocks with real numbers, and unify it all on a 12-column grid with a deliberate two-typeface, three-colour system. You will also adapt the visual into a 1584 by 396 pixel LinkedIn banner and, crucially, keep a parallel ATS-safe text resume so machines and humans both pass you through.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Decide when an infographic resume helps and when an ATS-safe text resume must run alongside it

Build a readable career timeline, single-column or two-column, that survives a six-second scan

Choose an honest skills visualisation, radar, bar, or dot matrix, instead of meaningless percentage bars

Turn achievements into icon-led stat blocks using quantified, verb-led results

Unify type, colour, and a 12-column grid into one balanced, recruiter-friendly page

Adapt the resume into a 1584x396 LinkedIn banner and export clean PDF and image files

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: When a Visual Resume Wins, and When It Loses

The six-second scan, what an infographic resume can and cannot do, and the ATS reality that decides whether a visual CV ever reaches a human eye.

3 lessons

The Six-Second Scan and the Recruiter's Eye PathContent · 45 min

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What an Infographic Resume Is For, and Who Should Use OneContent · 45 min

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The ATS Reality and the Two-Version StrategyContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Mapping Your Career as Data

Auditing your history into structured data, writing achievements that quantify impact, and choosing the timeline structure that fits your story.

3 lessons

Turning a Career History into Structured DataContent · 45 min

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Writing Achievements That Quantify ImpactContent · 45 min

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Choosing a Timeline Structure for Your StoryContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Visualising Skills Without Lying

Honest skills charts over fake percentages, designing icon-led achievement blocks, and the colour and typography system that holds the page together.

3 lessons

Honest Skills Charts: Radar, Bar, and Dot MatrixContent · 45 min

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Icon-Led Achievement BlocksContent · 45 min

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A Colour and Typography System for One PageContent · 45 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Building, Adapting, and Exporting the Page

Laying out the one-page grid in a real tool, adapting the design into a LinkedIn banner, and exporting clean PDF, image, and ATS-safe files.

3 lessons

Laying Out the One-Page GridContent · 45 min

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Adapting the Design into a LinkedIn BannerContent · 45 min

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Exporting Clean Files and the ATS-Safe CompanionContent · 45 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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