And what Hugo was ultimately asking was what i have a new job now thanks to that
you job search boot camp i've moved my family and i'm in a new city and state
i've got a new job and I need to put my work history into the internal corporate
database that's used for succession planning and what information is is the
right information to put into that system so there's a couple things I want
all of you to know if you have a corporation or your employer has an
internal database that keeps track of all of your work history as well as your
internal projects there's a couple things I want you to put in it's really
important that you do this so there's information from your resume that you
want to put in and you want to match up your resume and and start there and get
your bullets in your resume and put that into the internal database and talk
about where you worked and the markets in the industries and the roles you held
and in the accomplishments that you had that part is already in your resume
because we want your resume to serve as a marketing vehicle remember the purpose
of a resume is to get somebody to want to speak with you and get you a job
interview it's to highlight your accomplishments and I always what's the
easiest formula that I tell you to remember about what you go in the resume
what happened as a result of me doing what I did
so not the activity so much but the benefit the accomplishments and so on
that should be in the resume what is also in the resume but doesn't shine as
much is all the different activities and everything else that you did that's
important from an inventory standpoint for your new employer to see so you want
to make sure you're adding all of that so you want might want to augment some
of your resume sections where you're putting it in is company XYZ where I
recently was and I had all these accomplishments but here's all the
activities that I did as well and that's okay to list because you want those in
the database whether it's freeform text or whether you're checking boxes then
what I want you to do is I want you to get my career achievements journal you
can access the career achievements journey you can either google career
achievements journal and lots of it'll come up or you can check out a
video called get promoted with this resume building
tool and this is where we're going with this right I want you to get promoted
that's what succession planning is all about so what's inside the career
achievement journal are the 14 most important elements to capture about
every project that you do so as you start your new job or that you could
start it today it doesn't matter if you're midstream it makes no difference
get the career achievements journal and start documenting all these important
elements I'm not going to go into the 14 items because they're in the journal but
it's you know what was the business problem what was the what was the
project set up who were the stakeholders right what were the benefits what did
you do how did you know what were the things that you learned all these
elements you want to capture that it's like a diary for every project and then
take that information and put it into your succession planning database so
that your employer can actually see not only the activities that you're
currently doing and have done historically
but also everything that was related to it because you're the people at your
employer they're gonna come and go to write there's gonna be some turnover you
might have a new boss you might have somebody who doesn't know you now you
can look at that they'll have all the right context to truly understand not
only what you did but the impact that that had the level of importance those
projects were so I hope that helps you it's really important that you get that
information in so all your stuff from your resume then augment it with making
sure you've got all your activities listed you want to put some soft skills
and all that good stuff is great and then the second thing is make sure you
get the career achievements journal and I will put the links here somewhere but
make sure you get the career achievements journal and you document
like a diary what that stuff is and make sure that goes in to that internal
corporate database so that they can see not only what you did but ultimately
what happened as a result of what you did and how impactful those projects
were so I think that'll really help you for all of you that are looking to make
sure that you get promoted it's really great to have that stuff
you