If you are staying and rising
The hardest case to make is the one for work nobody assigned you.
A promotion case argues you are already operating a level up. That evidence is the most fragile kind, and almost nobody captures it.
A resume argues you can do what you have been doing. A promotion case argues something harder: that you already do the job above your title, and have been for a while.
The evidence for that claim is unusually fragile. It is the decision that was technically your manager's but was actually yours, the cross-team problem nobody owned, the budget you influenced without controlling. None of it appears in your job description or anyone's dashboard, so if you do not record it, it leaves no trace at all.
Then review season arrives and you reconstruct eight months from memory, which flattens exactly the moments that made the case.
What to actually do
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Record the above-title work specifically
When you make a call that was not formally yours, or resolve something outside your remit, capture it that week with its context and consequence. This is the evidence category with the shortest shelf life.
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Attach the measure, not just the story
A committee weighing you against a bar wants the scale and the outcome. What was the scope, who was affected, what changed. The narrative alone reads as advocacy.
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Compile the case from the record
When the window opens, you are selecting from evidence rather than excavating for it. The same record produces your review, your case, and eventually a resume if you ever want one.
What this will not do
No record wins a promotion that a business decision has already closed. What it does is make sure the case is not lost for lack of proof.
Start capturing what you are already doing.
The free plan runs the whole method, by hand, with room for thirty experiences. No card required.
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