Switch into tech

Stage 8 · Lesson 4 of 7

Recording your wins

Your first year after switching

Keep a private, dated list of what you did, learned and helped with, with links to the work. This is called a . It makes , reviews and promotion conversations easy.

It reminds you of your progress on hard days. It also becomes the evidence for your next move. For a , it shows how quickly you are closing the gap with colleagues who started earlier. Add to it every week; it takes five minutes.

Common trapstarting it the week before a review and remembering only the last month.

A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 1 cheat sheet entry come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it

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  • Talk to other people who switched and compare notes on the first year

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