I recently started a new job! Hooray! As part of my job-hunt process I freshened up my CV. I was looking for work similar to what I did several years ago, so I wanted to feature that experience in my CV. To help flesh out that time in more detail in my CV I dug out the planner I was using while I did that job.
Happily for me, I kept work details in that planner like lists of trainings I did (more than 60 hours), and other relevant things. If I had kept those on my work computer, they would be long gone.
As I was trying to translate that information into CV-worthy content, I wished I'd kept even better records of things I did. Going forward in my new job I think I will keep monthly, or at least quarterly, records of my duties and projects, and information related to those.
Do you keep work details and records in your Filofax to be able to refer to them in the future?
And as always on Fridays, feel free to ask and/or discuss anything Filofax related!
Hello Laurie, my best wishes for your new job. It's great that you can use your Filofax (A5?) so efficiently for your work. I wish I could do the same, but I use my personal-sized Filofax for work more or less for time management. I have a pile of A5 waiting to be used for work. But for everything that is tied to “long-term memory”, notebooks give me security, I don’t lose any information on individual sheets of paper... Is there a post here on philofaxy where you describe how you use your filofax for work and how you archive important informations?
ReplyDeleteThank you Klaus! Yes I am in an A5 Filofax, I love being able to print directly onto A5 paper and put it straight into my binder. I don't really have a post here specifically about how I use my Filofax for work. I mention it in this post but don't go into details: https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2016/05/readers-favourite-organiser-laurie.html
DeleteFor archiving, I use plastic binders that I label with the date range of the contents. I have a separate archive binder for work, and I use tabbed dividers in the archive binder to designate sections. So if I needed to look back on previous years and find anything specific, it would be pretty easy to do so.
Congratulations on your new job & wishing you all the best with it, Laurie!
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