The vocabulary — the words, and what they mean
One term, and the eight inside it
A new idea needs its own vocabulary, or it gets described in the language of the thing it replaces.
Living Professional Identity
The term the others belong to
Living
Added to while things are still happening, so it is current without ever being rebuilt.
Professional
A whole working life — wider than employers and dates, and wider than any one job description.
Identity
Who someone is, not a document they submit. It stays theirs, at an address they hold.
Every term below names a part of it, and none of them means much alone: the Talent Library is where it is kept, the Living Diary is how it stays current, the Talent Workshop is where it is shaped for one reader, the Folio is what that reader sees, and Kaysie and Scoutsie are who help.
Talent Library
Where a Living Professional Identity is stored: the Foundation Folio, qualifications, certificates, courses, media, papers, presentations, awards, past roles. Everything, kept once. Updated from the Living Diary.
Talent Workshop
Where a person writes a new Talent Story from their Category Folio or Applied Folio, and shapes it for a particular opportunity, drawing on them rather than starting again.
Job HQ
Everything to do with finding the next role and keeping tabs on the next steps: the search, the applications, and the record of what happened to each one.
Living Diary
The ongoing capture of what is happening now — professional and otherwise. Two sentences at a time, so the record is written while it is still true.
Folio
The complete professional record as a reader encounters it: a person’s career told as a story, at a web address that belongs to them. The Folio is what a CV was trying to be.
Folio Foreword
A single page a person can attach to any application: who they are, one scene from their record, an index into the Folio, and a plain summary of employers, dates and qualifications. It never contains the whole Folio.
Chapter
A section of the Talent Story you use to create each Folio. A career told in chapters rather than bullet points, because the order and the shape of a life are part of what it says.
Kaysie and Scoutsie
Two companions, deliberately separate. Kaysie faces inward and helps a person capture and articulate who they are. Scoutsie faces outward and reports what the market is showing.