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Make your skills portable before you need to move
Model a career below the job title, attach evidence to valuable skills, sample real market demand, identify adjacent-role gaps and keep a transition-ready capability inventory without discarding useful specialization.
14 elements · Explore in any order.
1 checklist · 2 heuristics · 2 principles · 9 protocols
14 elements
Decompose the role into tasks before naming your skills
Titles travel badly; tasks travel better.
Read the idea HeuristicSeparate domain knowledge, tool skill and transferable capability
Different skill layers decay and transfer at different speeds.
Read the idea ProtocolAttach evidence to every skill you want others to believe
Self-rating is cheap; evidence is harder to fake and easier to discuss.
Read the idea ProtocolWrite the transferable mechanism behind a success
Portability lives in the mechanism, not the project nickname.
Read the idea ProtocolSample the market before choosing the next skill
One signal can be loud without being representative.
Read the idea ProtocolCompare adjacent roles by overlap before starting from zero
Career transitions often contain a larger reused core than the title suggests.
Read the idea ChecklistTrack where your capability is overly concentrated
Depth creates value; concentration creates fragility.
Read the idea HeuristicChoose the smallest bridge skill that unlocks an adjacent role
The highest-value gap is the one that blocks otherwise usable overlap.
Read the idea PrinciplePrefer learning that produces work-like evidence
Completion is evidence of participation, not automatically of capability.
Read the idea ProtocolKeep one portfolio artifact that does not belong to your employer
A portfolio should not require leaking the work that created the skill.
Read the idea ProtocolRecord the outcome and your contribution while the evidence is fresh
Career evidence decays faster than the work did.
Read the idea ProtocolMaintain a capability profile outside the résumé format
A résumé is a projection, not the source of truth.
Read the idea PrincipleTreat a credential as a pointer to evidence, not the whole evidence
A credential says something was assessed; the important question is what it actually establishes.
Read the idea ProtocolDefine the career shock trigger and the first three moves
A transition plan is most valuable before the transition owns the calendar.
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