Your competency desk

• Names the specific code, standard or regulation and the edition you worked to
• Shows a decision the document changed, not only that you knew it existed
• For work outside Canada, names the Canadian document that plays the same role
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• States the constraints plainly and says which one governed
• Shows how another discipline's needs affected your choice
• Ends with how the design you chose met the constraints
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Separates the technical risk from general safety matters
• Names the cause and the consequence you assessed
• Describes the mitigation you set up and whether it worked
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the method, theory or calculation you used
• Shows that the numbers drove the decision
• Says where a standard approach fell short, if it did
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the tool or method that produced the result
• Describes the independent check: hand calculation, field data or a test
• Says what the check showed and what you did about it
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the safety regulation or standard that applied
• Shows a hazard you identified and the control you chose
• Ties the control back to the rule that required it
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Describes the system and the part you worked on
• Explains an interaction or a limit between components
• Shows a monitoring or adjustment step you took yourself
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the stages you took part in
• Shows your own role at each stage, not the project's history
• Notes how one stage's findings fed the next
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the quality process or review you ran or followed
• Shows a finding that came out of a check or a review
• Says how the work was corrected or confirmed as a result
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the documents you produced or reviewed
• Shows how a document carried a design decision to someone else
• Mentions a review, an approval or a comment you resolved
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the audience and the setting
• Shows how you adapted what you said for that audience
• States what the audience did or decided afterward
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the document and who it was for
• Shows a choice you made because of that reader
• Says how the document was used
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the document you read
• States what it required that was not obvious on a first read
• Shows the action that followed from your reading
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the project management element you handled
• Shows a trade-off between scope, time and cost
• States the result for the project
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Shows where your responsibility grew compared with earlier work
• Names the planning task you owned
• States what you delivered
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• States the resource limit you faced
• Shows how you reported the position or reset expectations
• Says whether the deadline or the budget held
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the budget, estimate or cost comparison
• Shows a figure that influenced a decision
• States the financial outcome
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the feedback you received and who gave it
• Shows what you changed as a result
• States how the change worked out
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the other disciplines or roles involved
• Shows how their input changed your work
• States the result for the team
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Describes the disagreement without blaming anyone
• Shows the steps you took to resolve it
• States how the team moved forward
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the ethical question you faced
• Links your action to a principle of the code
• States the outcome and who it protected
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the limit you recognised
• Shows who you went to and what you asked for
• States how the work improved
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Describes the conflict or the potential conflict
• Shows how you disclosed it or stepped away from it
• States the result
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names where accountability arose in your work
• Shows a step you took because of it
• States what that step protected
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the document that was sealed and who sealed it
• Shows your part in preparing it for sealing
• States a sealing rule you observed
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names a strength and a weakness honestly
• Shows where the weakness showed up at work
• States the step you took about it
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the public impact you considered
• Shows the safeguard or mitigation you applied
• States the result for the public
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names who in the public was affected
• Shows how their concerns or the benefit to them shaped your work
• States the result
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the regulatory body or the overlapping profession
• Shows how its role affected your work
• Explains why that oversight mattered
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the guideline or provision
• Shows how you applied it
• States the effect
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

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• Names the sustainable option you considered
• Shows how you argued for it or applied it
• States the effect over the life of the work
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the activities and when they happened
• Shows why you chose them
• States how you used what you learned
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Describes how you found the gap
• Names the gap specifically
• States why it matters for your role
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.

• Names the plan's main items and their timing
• Links each item to a gap you identified
• Shows progress against the plan
• Written in the first person about work you did yourself, with enough detail for someone who has never seen the project.

A structure to check your own draft against. The desk never writes or suggests example text.