While your resume or LinkedIn profile may present who you are to the market, your Professional Inventory goes beyond the headlines and prompts collecting the most significant activities and behaviors of your professional mastery.
This critical information of your Professional Inventory is the 5 to 10 most important experiences you have had so far in your working life. These as classified as “wins” and “learnings from losses” that build your competencies. We are always either winning or learning. Nothing is wasted.
What about you made the achievement what it was, and how did that experience create value and growth? These experiences are the actual impact you make in your work. The experience in your development that gave you new learning from success or failure to grow to new level. The details create real insights that build self-awareness, confidence, and increase your ability to communicate well about your career and as a leader.
To properly reflect, document, and build complete stories, CareerTruth provides the STAR method to ensure you document all the pertinent facts and your thought processes with an orientation toward results. Starting with the Situation to be solved, which leads to the Tasks you need to accomplish, the Action you took to overcome challenges, and the Results that came from your actions, STAR is an easy-to-remember framework that can work for all your experiences. CareerTruth is the place to do this work for all your career…store the treasures of your Professional Inventory. Over time this builds both confidence and humility.
Take note of these types of STAR experiences.
The most significant successes of your career.
A time you chose to develop a new competency and intentionally go outside your comfort zone.
A time you had to face a decision-maker who disagreed with you.
A time when you had to convince people to follow you.
A time you helped someone get better at their work.
A time when you learned from a failure.
A time you took a significant personal risk to make a large improvement.
After completing a series of these today STAR experiences today, you can add more each time you experience a significant moment in your career. This is your life long Professional Inventory.