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Example · The first years of a career

Six years of a career, from first job to first talk

Yanis keeps his working life on a timeline: the first job, the move to Montréal, a side project, the first conference talk. Some moments are shared, others stay private.

Yanis is 28. He started as a junior designer at a studio in Lyon in 2019, built a bike-repair app in the evenings, moved to Montréal in 2023 and now leads a small team. Six years go fast, and a CV only keeps the job titles.

His timeline keeps the rest: what he worked on, where he was, the offer letters and contracts as PDFs, and the moments he would rather keep to himself. His career has a life line of its own, beside the side project and the moves.

His timeline

The timeline, simplified: one row per life line, a dot per moment, a bar for the moments that last several days, a star for the ones that mattered most. In the app, each dot opens its moment.

  • 2 Sept 2019

    First day as a junior designer

    Lyon

    WorkContacts only1 photo

  • 1 Jun 2021

    Promoted to designer

    WorkPrivate

  • 8 Jan – 15 Nov 2022

    Building a bike-repair app

    Evenings and weekends

    Side projectContacts only2 photos

  • 17 Apr 2023

    Moving to Montréal

    Montréal

    MovesPrivate2 photos

  • 5 Feb 2024

    Lead designer

    Montréal

    WorkContacts only

  • 22 May 2025

    First conference talk

    Montréal

    WorkContacts only2 photos

Kept private

Moving to Montréal

17 Apr 2023

MontréalPrivate

The move to Montréal is the biggest moment on his timeline. It is also private: the doubts, the visa paperwork, the first weeks on his own. Only Yanis can see it. On Vybz each moment has its own visibility, so the career can be shared without the rest.

The work contract and the visa approval are attached as PDFs, easy to find on the day he needs them. Attaching PDFs is part of the Plus plan.

A moment that lasts ten months

Building a bike-repair app

8 Jan – 15 Nov 2022

Evenings and weekendsContacts only

The side project ran from January to November 2022: a moment with a start and an end date, drawn as a bar on the timeline. Each version of the app is a screenshot; the launch got a line of its own in the description.

Side projects are often the most interesting thing on a CV, and the first to be forgotten. This one has a life line of its own beside work, so its months overlap with the day job, exactly as they did.

1 comment

  • Lucie

    I still use it every time my chain comes off.

Shared with the team

First conference talk

22 May 2025

MontréalContacts only

His first conference talk, in May 2025: Ana, a colleague, took the photo from the third row and added it to the moment herself. The slides are attached as a PDF, and the moment is shared with his contacts from work.

Beside it on the timeline sits the first job, six years earlier. Side by side, the distance travelled is obvious, and that is the point of keeping it.

2 comments

  • Ana

    You didn't look nervous at all. (You were.)

  • Yanis

    Thanks for the photo, it's the only one where I'm not mid-sentence.

How they set it up

  1. Three life lines: work, the side project and the moves.

  2. Each milestone captured with its date and place, and a date range for the projects that lasted months.

  3. Contracts, offer letters and slides attached as PDFs (Plus plan).

  4. Visibility chosen moment by moment: the career shared with colleagues, the rest kept private.

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