Career Capital Audit — LifeSketch
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Career Capital Audit

Your history is a goldmine. Take inventory.

1Start with the story, not the categories. Write freely in Panel A first — everything else pulls from it.
2Go broad before you go deep. Sweep every experience in, then dig into your biggest contributions.
3Hunt for patterns. The recurring themes become your master inventory for everything that follows.
What this tool is

You've mapped the customer — their needs, pains, and desired outcomes. Now map your product. This audit is a comprehensive, honest inventory of everything you bring to the table: your experience, skills, knowledge, character, and connections. This isn't bragging — it's a dispassionate inventory of a business asset. This document becomes your master reference for your skills inventory, fit evaluation, and value proposition.

Pull from: Empathy Maps & Needs Assessments A-to-Z Target List Your resume — as a memory jogger only
You're done when

Your story is on the page, every major experience is captured with at least one problem-solved-plus-result pair, and you've named at least three recurring patterns. Complete is more valuable than polished — messy entries you can mine later beat perfect entries you never finish.

Panel A

Your Life & Career Story

Before we organize anything into themes or categories, start with the story itself. Write freely — like you're catching up with an old friend. There is no "right" way to do this. Don't worry about sounding professional or impressive. Just get the story out.

Take your time. This narrative is the raw material the rest of the audit is built on.

Panel B

Capital Inventory — The Broad Sweep

Career capital is your professional currency: the unique mix of skills, knowledge, experience, character, and connections you've built over time. This is a fast brainstorm, not an exhaustive list — jot whatever comes to mind in each box.

Experience
Jobs · internships · volunteer work · academic & side projects · life experiences
Skills
Motivated · transferable · hard skills · soft skills
Knowledge
Formal (degrees, certifications) · less formal (trainings, workshops) · informal (self-taught, on-the-job)
Character
Personality traits · work & learning styles · preferences
Social Capital
Interpersonal connections · groups · communities · networks
Panel C

Experience Audit — Major Experiences

Now go deeper on each major experience from your broad sweep. The goal is to shift from a chronological list of chores to a portfolio of assets: for each one, name what you actually did, the problems you solved, and the results you created.

The reframe: your past experiences are not just jobs you survived. They are raw evidence of the tools in your toolkit — and the same story can be framed differently depending on which target you're pursuing.
Panel D

Key Contributions — The Deep Dive

Pick your two biggest experiences from Panel C and go one level deeper. These become the strongest evidence in your inventory — the stories you'll reach for again and again.

Panel E

Emerging Patterns & Career Capital

Read back over everything above and hunt for what keeps showing up. The repeats are the signal — the same problem solved in different places, the same skill reached for across unrelated roles.

Panel F

Reflection

Four questions to lock in what you found. Bring one hidden pattern and one surprising asset to your next coaching call.

Your past is not a tombstone of previous choices. It's a reservoir of built Career Capital.

Complete the full audit before your next lesson or coaching call. Your entries save automatically on this device — return and add to it any time; this is your master inventory for the rest of the program.

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