Career guides
How to keep the receipts for your own career.
Frameworks, examples and free tools for proving what you actually did at work. Written for the person whose career it is, not for the HR department. You can do all of this manually. LAYG just turns it into a weekly habit that keeps itself up to date.
If you would rather see the product first, start with the work accomplishment tracker.
Free tools
No account needed to use them. Test your evidence now.
Promotion readiness check
Score the evidence behind your promotion case, honestly, in two minutes.
Pay-rise evidence builder
Turn what you did into contribution, outcome and defensible wording.
Performance review memory test
Find out how much of your own year you can actually recall.
Promotions
Build evidence that you are already operating at the next level.
How to build a promotion case
A seven-part framework for building a promotion case on evidence: results, scope, level, repetition, recognition, business relevance and attribution, with weak and strong examples.
Evidence for a promotion: what actually counts
Eleven categories of promotion evidence, an evidence hierarchy from weak to strong, and realistic examples of the wording that survives a calibration meeting.
How do you know if you are ready for a promotion?
A readiness framework that separates strong performance in your current role from evidence of operating at the next one, with a worked case study and the gaps that usually decide it.
How to ask for a promotion
A twelve-week timeline, a word-for-word script, and how to handle a not-yet.
Pay rises
Turn increased value into a defensible salary conversation.
Evidence for a pay rise
A checklist of what genuinely supports a salary increase: sustained performance, quantified impact, added scope, efficiency, risk avoided, expertise and replacement value.
Your responsibilities increased and your salary did not
How to tell the difference between a temporary stretch, role creep and sustained under-levelling, and exactly what to document so the conversation is about evidence rather than resentment.
Do you need a pay rise or a promotion?
A decision guide for the two conversations people confuse: when increased value argues for salary, when changed scope argues for level, and when both are already overdue.
How to ask for a pay rise
When to ask, the evidence that moves a number, and what to do if the answer is no.
Performance reviews
Stop rebuilding twelve months of work the night before your appraisal.
What to put in your performance review
The evidence categories that belong in a self-assessment, weak versus strong wording, how to handle what went badly, and how to use the review to set up next year's case.
Self evaluation examples
Weak versus strong self-assessment writing, with examples you can adapt.
Career evidence
Record the things you will otherwise forget.
Context, Action, Impact, Proof: how to write an achievement someone will believe
A four-part structure for turning work into evidence for reviews, promotion cases, pay conversations and CVs, with worked examples and a copyable template.
How to track your accomplishments at work
A seven-question weekly system for recording achievements while you still remember them, what to capture, what to skip, and how to keep the habit alive for a full year.
How to remember what you achieved this year
A reconstruction method for rebuilding a forgotten year before your review: the sources to mine, the questions to ask, and how to stop it happening again.
Work journal guide
What to capture each week, how to structure it, and how to use it later.
Brag sheet
What goes in a brag sheet, a template to copy, and how to use it in a review.
Role growth
Work out when stretch responsibility has quietly become the actual job.
Working above your pay grade
A duration and scope framework for telling a one-off stretch from sustained role expansion, including acting-up cover, manager work without the title, and how to document it.
Professional development plan examples
A one-page template plus worked examples for four roles, built around evidence you can keep.
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