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Professional Case Study Collection

A shelf of finished case studies about your best work, each with a clear problem, your approach, verified results and permission to share, ready for interviews, promotion panels and client pitches.

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

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Professional Case Study Collection, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Professional Case Study Collection

Writing up your best work as case studies with problem, approach and results, ready for interviews and promotion cases.

  1. Inventory of case study candidates from five years
  2. Choosing your first three case studies
  3. Confidentiality and permission rules for case studies
  4. Master case study template with fixed sections
  5. Case study library folder and naming scheme
  6. Evidence pack for each chosen case study
  7. Baseline and result numbers verified at source
  8. Your role versus the team's role, stated precisely
  9. Audiences and the decision each case study supports
  10. Monthly case study writing session
  11. Project close debrief notes while memory is fresh
  12. Case study index with tags and lengths
  13. Quarterly refresh and retirement of case studies
  14. Results follow-up on work still landing
  15. Peer review swap for draft case studies
  16. Artefact backup before devices or employers change
  17. Yearly case study audit against your target role
  18. Writing a problem statement a stranger cares about
  19. Explaining approach and trade-offs, not just steps
  20. Quantifying results honestly when data is thin
  21. Writing up a failed or cancelled project
  22. Before and after visuals and simple diagrams
  23. Plain-language edit for non-specialist readers
  24. Studying published case studies from your field
  25. Telling a case study aloud in two, five and fifteen minutes
  26. Anonymising client and employer details
  27. One-page summary version of each case study
  28. Choosing a format, document, slides or web page
  29. Rewriting weak case studies that lack a result
  30. Stakeholder quotes and endorsements for case studies
  31. Deciding which case studies can go public
  32. Private case study page with controlled access
  33. Case study set for a promotion committee
  34. Case study selection for a specific interview loop
  35. Case study presentation round for a panel
  36. Case studies for a client pitch or tender
  37. Case study clearance before leaving an employer
  38. Case study entry for an industry award
  39. Engineer's technical case study with system detail
  40. Creative case study that shows process, not only the final piece
  41. Case study for policy, operations or analysis work
  42. Manager's case study about leading a team through change
  43. Freelancer's client case studies for repeat work
  44. Early-career case studies from coursework and small projects
  45. Case studies translated for a career change
  46. Multi-year programme case study told in phases
  47. Cross-team influence case study for staff-level roles
  48. Case studies mapped to a competency framework
  49. Flagship long-form case study
  50. Coaching colleagues to write their own case studies

Where it starts.

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

Inventory of case study candidates from five years

Most people can name two projects they are proud of and forget the other fifteen that would make better stories. Listing every substantial piece of work from the last five years, with a line on the problem and the outcome, gives you a pool to choose from instead of writing up whatever happens to be recent.

First tasks

  • List every project you can remember from the last twelve months
  • Skim old performance reviews and calendars for earlier projects
  • Add a one-line problem and outcome to each project on the list
  • Flag each project as public, anonymisable or private

Choosing your first three case studies

Trying to write up everything at once stalls the whole collection. Scoring the inventory against a few honest criteria (size of result, how central your role was, relevance to the role you want next, and how much evidence survives) picks the three that will do the most work for you in the next year.

First tasks

  • Write four scoring criteria that matter for your next role
  • Score every project on the inventory from one to five on each
  • Choose three case studies that cover different kinds of problem
  • Write a reserve list of the next five candidates

Confidentiality and permission rules for case studies

Employment contracts, client agreements and non-disclosure clauses often forbid sharing exactly the details that make a case study convincing. Reading what you signed and writing your own short rules before drafting protects your reputation and saves rewriting a finished piece because it names a client or a revenue figure you may not share.

First tasks

  • Find the confidentiality clauses in your current employment contract
  • Check client agreements and NDAs from the last five years
  • Write a one-page rule sheet for names, figures, images and code
  • Reread the rule sheet when you change employer or sign a new client @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Professional Case Study Collection, 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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