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Professional Reputation Building

A clear specialism, an honest baseline of how you are seen, and the writing, visible work and reliable delivery that make the right people in your industry know your name for one specific thing.

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

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Professional Reputation Building, 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 Reputation Building

Becoming known for something specific in your industry through visible work, writing, talks and consistent delivery.

  1. Three-word reputation baseline from colleagues
  2. Search-result audit of your own name
  3. Choosing the one thing to be known for
  4. Map of the thirty people whose opinion matters
  5. Proof gap check against your specialism
  6. Professional bio in three lengths
  7. Personal home page at one permanent address
  8. Employer policy and confidentiality check before publishing
  9. Consistent name, photo and handle everywhere
  10. Commitments register for a reputation as reliable
  11. Weekly publishing slot for your specialism
  12. Idea file fed from real questions
  13. Monthly habit of helping in public
  14. Quarterly reputation review with simple measures
  15. Mentions and citations tracker
  16. Keeping in touch with the people who matter
  17. Feedback themes from visible work
  18. Annual reputation plan and reset
  19. Writing short expert pieces people finish
  20. Two-minute plain-language explanation of your field
  21. Turning project lessons into a named framework
  22. Giving useful expert comment to journalists
  23. Accuracy and sourcing habits for public work
  24. Showing creative work with the thinking behind it
  25. Preparing to be a podcast guest
  26. Running a practical workshop on your specialism
  27. Choosing your main channel for being seen
  28. Pruning old work that contradicts your positioning
  29. Becoming the go-to person inside your organisation
  30. Starting a niche email newsletter
  31. Pitching an article to a trade publication
  32. Collecting testimonials and endorsements with permission
  33. Opportunity filter for invitations and requests
  34. Making your part in team work visible and fair
  35. Industry award entry with real evidence
  36. Serving as a judge or reviewer in your field
  37. Guest lecture at a university or college
  38. Launching a flagship guide on your specialism
  39. Showcase or exhibition of creative work
  40. Borrowed credibility for a junior specialist
  41. Reputation building on two hours a week
  42. Visibility when your work is confidential
  43. Freelance creative reputation for referrals
  44. Repositioning after a change of specialism
  45. Building a reputation in a new country or market
  46. Recovering from a public mistake or criticism
  47. Original research report for your field
  48. Book proposal on your specialism
  49. Committee or standards role in a professional body
  50. Curating the go-to resource list for your field

Where it starts.

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

Three-word reputation baseline from colleagues

Before deciding what you want to be known for, find out what you are known for already. Asking six to eight people who have worked with you for the three words they would use to describe you to a stranger gives an honest starting point, and the gap between their words and your hopes is the work of this whole area.

First tasks

  • List eight people who have seen your work from different angles
  • Send each a short private message asking for three words they would use about you
  • Group the answers into themes in a single note
  • Write a dated paragraph on how you are seen now and how it differs from what you want

Search-result audit of your own name

Hiring managers, clients and event organisers search your name before replying to you, and what they find on the first page is your reputation to a stranger. An hour spent recording those results, including images and old profiles, shows what is helping, what is out of date and what belongs to someone else with the same name.

First tasks

  • Search your name in a private browser window and save the first two pages
  • Mark each result as helpful, neutral, outdated or someone else
  • Update or close two outdated profiles you still control
  • Repeat the search and compare against last year's record @recurring(yearly)

Choosing the one thing to be known for

People remember a person for one thing, rarely three, so a vague reputation as good at lots of things is usually no reputation at all. Picking a specialism that sits where your experience, your interest and real demand in your industry overlap, and writing it as one sentence, gives every later piece of work something to point at.

First tasks

  • Write three possible specialisms with one line of evidence for each
  • Name two people already known for each candidate and note how crowded it is
  • Pick one and write it as a sentence a colleague could repeat
  • Read the sentence to two trusted people and note what they hear

Make it yours.

Install Professional Reputation Building, 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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