Work Experience Checklist

This is the free guide for writing your work history down properly, once.

Most people write it from memory — and leave out the half that would have gotten

them hired.

WHAT'S INSIDE

26 data points to capture, in five groups:

- The basics — employers, titles, and dates

- What you did — duties, tools, and systems

- Scale — how many, how much, how fast

- Wins — what you improved, with numbers

- What people leave out — old jobs, short stints, unpaid work

WHY IT MATTERS

Every one of these is something a screener, a background check, or a hiring

manager actually looks for. Capture it now and it's ready for every job you apply

to — including the ones you haven't seen yet. Free, because a complete record of

your own work should belong to you.

HOW TO USE IT

Open a blank document and work through the list, job by job. Keep it somewhere

you'll find it again. Then pull from it for every application — choosing by what

a role actually involved, not whether the title matches the posting.

Once it's written, the toolkits at resumeprompts.io turn it into a tailored

résumé and cover letter for any posting, using the free version of Claude.

LICENSE — This checklist is yours to use for your own job search, for as many

applications as you like, forever. Please don't resell it, repackage it, or

include it in anything you charge for. Happy to have you tell people about it —

just send them the link rather than the file. Using it with clients, students,

or a class? Just reply to your confirmation email and I'll sort out a license

that works.