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You want to show up prepared for an important conversation about your role, your growth, your path.

This is the moment when your contribution gets told — best not leave it to chance.

  • Annual performance review
  • Promotion request or role change
  • Career conversation with your manager

This example illustrates one of the 6 key moments offered by SoiWISE.

Essential

P1

Professional portrait

What: Contact info, declared expertise, education and career highlights.

Why: The identity foundation that grounds the entire Guide.

Feeds into: The Guide's overall coherence.

P2

Professional achievements

What: Your documented experiences enriched by your reflective journal.

Why: The raw material for an honest read of your year.

Feeds into: Your top 3 accomplishments, and concrete proof behind each demonstrated skill.

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P5

Demonstrated skills

What: Your dominant skills, auto-generated from your achievements.

Why: Without them, the Guide has to infer your skills instead of naming them precisely.

Feeds into: Your skills portrait, backed by evidence — the same material that feeds your enhanced CV.

P3

Clarified aspirations

What: What you're looking for — culture, values, career goals.

Why: Without them, your forward-looking requests lack grounding.

Feeds into: The coherence between your actions and your aspirations, and your requests going forward.

If a section is incomplete, the Guide flags it and invites you to fill it in for more precise future Guides.

Catherine or Jacques's strategic guide

Illustrative example — fictional data, for demonstration purposes only.

1

Your year in an honest light

This year was marked by taking on broader ownership of your files, including [fictional project]. Two accomplishments stand out clearly, and a third deserves recognition even though it went unnoticed in team meetings. A learning area also emerges — around delegation — consistent with what you'd identified in your aspirations.

2

What you've actually demonstrated

Five skills emerge from your documented achievements, dominated by a collaborative leadership register. Each is backed by concrete evidence — not an impression, a fact drawn from your path.

3

What you're asking for next

Two clear requests take shape, aligned with what you've expressed wanting going forward. One is firm, the other open to discussion — the nuance changes everything in how you bring it up.

4

Strategic questions to ask

Four precise questions, designed to reveal useful information — not surface-level questions. One addresses an organizational change that directly concerns you.

5

Your posture for the conversation

Your natural style, inferred from your achievements and aspirations, calls for a fairly assertive posture. One pitfall is flagged specifically for your profile.

6

Pitfalls to anticipate

Two foreseeable scenarios based on your situation, each with a key phrase to stay grounded if the conversation shifts.

📋 Quick reference — Review right before your review

  • My 3 main accomplishments: [3 concise bullets]
  • My 2 clear requests: [action-verb bullets]
  • My 4 questions to ask: [question bullets]
  • My posture: one short framing sentence
  • My personal pitfall to avoid: one sentence

A preview of your enhanced CV

The same documented achievements also feed your CV — rewritten to make the case, not just describe it.

Before

What you wrote: "I managed a team of 5 on a migration project."

After

What the enhanced CV draws from it: "Led a 5-person technical team through a critical system migration, delivered on time with zero service disruption."

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