Chapter 4 | Identifying your value and experience

Many people can tell you where they worked, but not clearly explain why they were hired, what they were there to do, how the role changed, what level of trust they held, and what they actually influenced. This chapter is about rebuilding the truth of your career, not just the titles.

For each role, capture the following:

1. Basic role information

Job title

Employer

Dates

Location if relevant

2. The context of the business

What does the company do?

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Is it large, small, growing, global, local, public sector, private, regulated, specialist?

What kind of environment was it?

3. Why your role existed

Ask yourself:

Why was I hired?

What problem, need, gap, or business priority was I there to address?

Was I there to stabilise, grow, deliver, transform, manage, build, fix, lead, improve, launch?

4. What your real remit was

Think beyond tasks, consider:

team size

budget responsibility

business area covered

customer group

geography

internal stakeholders

external stakeholders

operational scale

service line

reporting line

strategic involvement

governance, risk, compliance, commercial or people oversight

5. What changed because you were there; this is where value begins to emerge:

What improved?

What did I introduce?

What did I resolve?

What did I protect?

What grew?

What became more eHicient?

What became more visible?

What became more compliant?

What became more profitable?

What became more stable?

What became better organised?

Add all this into the Workbook!