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Annual Career Direction Review

A protected yearly review of how work is really going, scored against last year's intentions, ending in a written stay, grow, shift or leave decision and three changes checked every quarter.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Annual Career Direction Review, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🧭 Career Growth

Annual Career Direction Review

Stepping back once a year to assess satisfaction, growth and direction, and deciding what to change next year.

  1. Booking a protected annual career review day
  2. A career review folder that holds every year
  3. Gathering the year's raw material
  4. Year on a page timeline
  5. Eight-dimension work satisfaction scorecard
  6. Energy audit of a typical working month
  7. Checking last year's intentions against what happened
  8. Growth evidence inventory for the year
  9. Pay and security snapshot for the year
  10. Your standard set of review questions
  11. Quarterly career direction check-in
  12. Two-line monthly career note
  13. Friday energy mark for the working week
  14. Mid-year direction pulse
  15. Monthly check on next year's three changes
  16. Rereading past reviews before writing the new one
  17. Year-end archive and fresh review folder
  18. Annual review partner swap
  19. Writing honest answers to review questions
  20. Telling a bad year from a wrong direction
  21. Keep, change and try reflection framework
  22. Spotting the early signs of career drift
  23. Three futures scenario exercise
  24. Reading where your field is heading
  25. Two-question feedback request for the review
  26. Stay, grow, shift or leave decision
  27. Choosing next year's three career changes
  28. One-page career direction statement
  29. Quarter-by-quarter plan for the three changes
  30. Pre-mortem on next year's career plan
  31. Deciding what to stop doing next year
  32. Testing a new direction before committing
  33. Time and money budget for next year's career moves
  34. Running the review day itself
  35. Direction conversation with your manager
  36. Sharing the review with your partner or household
  37. Letter to yourself for next year's review
  38. Milestone birthday career review
  39. Five-year look-back across your reviews
  40. Annual review in your first years of work
  41. Annual review for parents and carers
  42. Annual review after a hard year
  43. Annual review for freelancers and the self-employed
  44. Annual review as a people manager
  45. Annual review in the decade before retirement
  46. Career review circle with peers
  47. Ten-year career direction map
  48. Aligning the career review with the rest of life
  49. Auditing last year's career decisions
  50. Guiding someone else through their annual review

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Booking a protected annual career review day

Most people only think about direction when something goes wrong, which is the worst moment to think clearly. Putting a half day in the calendar, away from your desk and outside the employer's appraisal season, turns the review from a vague intention into an appointment you keep every year.

First tasks

  • Pick a four-hour slot at least a month from today
  • Block it in your calendar as busy and add a location away from your desk
  • Arrange cover for anything that would pull you out of the slot
  • Block next year's review day in the same week @recurring(yearly)

A career review folder that holds every year

A review written on loose paper is lost by the following year, and the real value of an annual review appears only when you can compare three or four of them. One folder with the same structure each year, kept somewhere you own rather than on an employer's drive, makes that comparison possible.

First tasks

  • Create a career review folder in storage you control personally
  • Add a subfolder for this year with four named sections
  • Search your email and files for old appraisals and plans to archive
  • Write a three-line note at the top explaining what goes where

Gathering the year's raw material

Memory keeps the last six weeks and the most dramatic moments, so a review written from memory alone judges the whole year on its final month. Spending two hours pulling the calendar, sent mail, notes, appraisal comments and any wins log into one place gives the review an accurate twelve months to work from.

First tasks

  • Scroll back through twelve months of calendar and note the events that mattered
  • Search sent mail for words such as thanks, launched, decided and sorry
  • Copy appraisal comments and feedback for the year into the folder
  • Start gathering material four weeks before review day @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Annual Career Direction Review, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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