Your manager doesn't remember what you shipped in Q1. Neither do you.
You are not looking for a job. You are trying to be paid for the one you have. Log a win when it happens — fifteen minutes a quarter — and at review time send one link: everything you delivered this year, quantified and grouped by role.
- Private, scoped and revocable
- Fifteen minutes a quarter
- No tool in the market is built for the employed
Log the win when it happens
Not the week before your review, when the details have blurred. A shipped project, a number you moved, a fire you put out — captured while it is still fresh, in the time it takes to drink a coffee.
One link at review time
Every achievement of the year, quantified and grouped by role, plus the training you did to get sharper. "Here is what I delivered, and here is how I got better" is a raise argument. Most people walk in with a vague sense of having worked hard.
Private, scoped, and revocable
Share only your current employer's achievements — not your whole career, and not the fact that you keep a portable record. It is your record, and you decide who sees which part of it, and for how long.
Questions
- I'm not job hunting. Why would I want this?
- Because a review is a negotiation, and you are the only person in the room without the receipts. This keeps a running, quantified record of what you actually did, so you argue from evidence instead of memory.
- Will my employer know I'm keeping a portable record?
- No. Your record is private. When you share a report you choose exactly what it contains — a single employer's achievements, nothing about the rest of your career — and you can revoke the link at any time.
- And if I do get laid off?
- Then you are the one person who does not have to rebuild thirty years from memory — it is already written down. We hope you never need that. It is a good reason to start today anyway.