Your career record
Six layers of a
working life.
Most of what you do at work leaves no trace you can retrieve. A record keeps it, in the shape you will need it: attached to the job it happened in, and dated, so it can be found by the period a review actually covers.
Story bank
What happened, what you did, what changed. The same story proves your case at review time and answers a question in an interview. Written once.
Achievements
The wins that vanish first. Banked while you still remember the number attached to them.
Salary history
What you were paid, when it moved and why. The context you need before asking for the next increase.
Skills and gaps
What you are actually building, against what the roles you want are asking for. The distance between the two is the plan.
Confidence trajectory
Measured, not guessed. Where you feel strong, where you do not, and whether that is moving.
Milestones
Promotions, certifications, the projects that changed the shape of your job. A career, in order.
Ownership
Your career data should belong to you.
Everywhere else, the record of your work sits on someone else's platform, and the terms can change without asking you.
Their platform, their rules
- Your history is a marketing asset for someone else
- The format changes when their product strategy does
- Everything you write is public, or visible to your employer
- Leave the platform and you leave the record behind
Your record, your terms
- Private by default, including from whoever pays for it
- Yours to export, and yours to keep when you change jobs
- Written for you, not performed for an audience
- Follows you between employers, because it is yours
Compounding
The longer you keep it, the more it is worth.
A record is the rare thing that gets more valuable the less dramatic your use of it is. Ten minutes a quarter, for years.
Month one
A handful of entries. Useful the next time someone asks what you have been working on.
Year one
Enough to walk into a review with evidence rather than an impression, and to see which skills actually moved.
Year five
A career you can read back. Patterns you could not see while you were inside them, and a case for the next role that writes itself.
Start with one entry.
Add the last thing you were proud of at work. Everything else builds from there.
Between jobs right now?
Art of Interviews is the other half: resumes, interview preparation and the systems behind them. Same login, same stories, whole career in view instead of just this role.