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Career Development

Expand your work options.

These twelve folders cover income, work schedule, skills, role scope, professional conduct, resources, performance, advancement, leadership, work technology, and networking.

twelve folders

Each folder has a different job

Each folder establishes a different record and gives the agent a different job. The folders do not run in a required sequence.

01
SalarySTARTING
DefinitionIncome received from work.
In Universe CityYour agent compares income with the regular expenses your current life requires. The starting exercise reviews the last full month so the first budget uses amounts that already happened.
What you buildA working income-and-expenses view showing what came in, what is due, and what remains.
02
Schedule
DefinitionA plan setting out when things will happen.
In Universe CityWhen you work, how far ahead you are told, and what you can move. Shifts, availability, and the requests you make.
What you buildA work schedule recording your actual hours against your posted ones.
03
Skill
DefinitionThe ability to do something well, gained through practice.
In Universe CityWhat you can do, what you can prove, and what each is paid elsewhere.
What you buildA verified skills ledger with the current rate for each.
04
Scope
DefinitionThe extent of what something covers.
In Universe CityWhat your job includes and what it does not, written down. What you are doing that nobody agreed to.
What you buildA written description of your role and a log of what falls outside it.
05
Integrity
DefinitionDoing what you said you would do.
In Universe CityThe commitments you make to yourself when nobody is checking. You state the thing and the deadline arrives whether or not you mention it again.
What you buildA record of what you said you would do and what happened to each one, ending in a rate rather than a feeling.
06
Professionalism
DefinitionThe conduct and standards a person holds at work.
In Universe CityYour own rules for the workplace. What you share and with whom, how you handle conflict, what you do and do not do socially with coworkers, how you speak to people above and below you.
What you buildA written set of your work rules, and an answer to whether to say something and to who.
07
Resources
DefinitionSupplies or support available for use.
In Universe CityWhat your employer and the public system make available that you are not using. Tools, budget, training, benefits and programs.
What you buildA resource map of what you can request and what you qualify for right now.
08
Key Performance Indicators
DefinitionThe measures used to judge whether work is succeeding.
In Universe CityWhat you are judged on, whether you were told, and whether you can prove your side of it.
What you buildA performance record holding your own numbers, kept independently of your employer.
09
Advancement
DefinitionMoving forward to a higher position.
In Universe CityThe next role, what it requires, and what is missing between you and it. How you ask rather than waiting to be noticed.
What you buildAn advancement plan naming the next role, its requirements, and your gaps against them.
10
Leadership
DefinitionThe structure of authority above a person at work.
In Universe CityWho your manager is, who theirs is, what each of them controls, and who actually decides what. Most people cannot name three levels up or say who signs off on anything.
What you buildAn org chart showing who is above you, what they control, and who to go to for what.
11
Information Technology
DefinitionThe use of computers and systems to store and handle information.
In Universe CityThe systems you have to work inside and nobody teaches. Logins and credentials, the sites and tools you use, standard operating procedures, and email and phone etiquette.
What you buildA record of the systems you work in, how each is used, and who to ask when one breaks.
12
Networking
DefinitionBuilding relationships that lead to opportunity.
In Universe CityThe rooms you want to be in, not the room you are currently in. Who is already there, and what you have done about getting in.
What you buildA record of the rooms you are trying to enter, who is in them, and every approach you have made.
membership

Salary is the starting folder here

Membership starts Salary alongside Time, Inventory, and Standards. The four folders are active together.

See membership
the other three
DEPARTMENT I
Agency Assessment
Folder 01 · Time →
DEPARTMENT II
Housing Stability
Folder 01 · Inventory →
DEPARTMENT IV
Life Management
Folder 01 · Standards →