Jobs & career prompts (page 10)
Help with jobs and people: rewrite your CV for a role, prepare for an interview, write a fair job advert, and handle the awkward conversations with staff or a manager.
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Write a spreadsheet to track anything you name
You need columns for a quirky tracker and don't know where to start. Get a layout matched to your habit.
Write a study plan for a course you're taking
The course is underway and you're behind. Get a catch-up and keep-up plan to the assessment.
Write a supporting statement that matches the person specification
NHS, council, school and charity jobs score your statement line by line against the person spec. Get one that hits every criterion with proof.
Write an executive summary a busy boss will actually read
Your senior team will read one paragraph, if that. Get a summary that gives the answer, the reason and the ask in under 150 words.
Write handover notes so nobody has to ring you on holiday
You're off on leave, or leaving for good, and only you know how things work. Get handover notes someone else can actually follow.
Write simple rules for staff using AI tools at work
Your team are already pasting customer messages and quotes into chat assistants. Get a one-page set of rules on what's fine, what's not and how to check the output.
Write up a portfolio piece that shows how you think
Your portfolio shows the finished thing but not why it was good. Get a short case study for each piece: the brief, your choices and the result.
Write your self-assessment for an appraisal
The self-assessment form is due Friday and every box says 'describe your contribution'. Get confident, specific answers for each section, from your own notes.
Write your weekly update to your boss by talking, not typing
Friday afternoon, and the weekly update is the last thing you want to write. Talk through your week out loud for two minutes and get a tidy update to send.
Answer a policy question from the handbook
Policy questions are answered from memory, and the handbook says something narrower. The answer quotes the handbook and stops when the handbook stops.
Ask about a timesheet line
Timesheet questions are asked in person and then forgotten, so payroll guesses. Each odd line has one question, and payroll is not changed in this step.
Check a contractor pack is complete
Contractors start before the pack has a name, a scope, and a date. A checklist shows which of those three are in the draft and which are missing.
Check an offer letter against the agreed points
Offer letters drift from what was said in the room, especially on start date and pay. A checklist marks each agreed point as present or missing in the draft. It does not give legal advice.
Describe project hours for the client note
Client updates invent a story about hours instead of using the tracker. The note lists hours by project from the export and does not explain them away.
Draft a job ad from the work you need done
Job ads are copied from a competitor and describe a person you do not need. The ad describes the work in your note and leaves out traits the note does not mention.
Draft next week's shift note
Shift notes are a text the night before, and someone always hears a different start time. The note lists names and start times from the schedule you pasted.
Draft the onboarding email
Onboarding emails are a forward of an old thread with the previous hire's name still in it. The email uses this hire's name and the start date you pasted.
List the first-week tasks from the role note
First weeks are a tour. A first-week list comes from the role note and names an owner for each task.
List what is still missing for a new hire
New-hire setup is assumed done because the person has a start date. A checklist shows which items you pasted are still missing.
Reply to a leave request
Leave requests sit because the reply needs the balance and the dates, which are in two places. The reply states the dates from the request and the balance you pasted, or says the balance was not pasted.
Turn interview notes into a comparable page
Interview notes are adjectives. A page lists what was asked and what was answered, without a hire recommendation unless you wrote one.
Write the time note a client was promised
A client was promised a time note and receives a raw export or nothing. The note is in sentences, and every number comes from the export.
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