Week04Direction
The Life Starter 8-Week Program

Choose a target and prove your value

Translate experience into a realistic role target, evidence bank, and tailored résumé.

0 of 4 lessons complete
This week, you will

Choose a target role using actual postings and constraints.

Turn work, school, caregiving, service, and projects into evidence.

Build a résumé that is specific, readable, and truthful.

Why this week exists

Convert a broad desire for better work into a testable target and an evidence-based application asset. This creates the input for the Week 5 pipeline.

Working time190 minutes

90 learn · 75 build · 25 review

Project steps

Do the work in this order

  1. 01

    Collect three to five current postings in one realistic role family.

  2. 02

    Code recurring duties, tools, qualifications, and constraints in a simple table.

  3. 03

    Translate work, school, service, caregiving, and projects into truthful action-result proof statements.

  4. 04

    Tailor a résumé draft to the recurring evidence and run a plain-language quality check.

Ready when

A reviewer can connect every major résumé claim to evidence and can see why the selected role family is realistic for the learner’s constraints.

Guided work

Complete the lesson sequence

Pass each lesson check and mark the work complete in the Life Starter player. Return here and the verified progress bar updates automatically.

  1. 1
    careerChoose a target role
    Start
  2. 2
    careerBuild your evidence bank
    Start
  3. 3
    careerWrite the résumé and profile
    Start
  4. 4
    spreadsheetStructure clean data
    Start
Optional review prompt

Test whether every strong claim can be supported with a concrete example. Never invent experience to fill a perceived gap.

Weekly project

Career target and résumé package

Not started

A target-role brief, ten-item evidence bank, and tailored résumé draft.

What to complete

Name your target role, three recurring requirements from real postings, five strong proof statements, one gap you can address, and the revision you made to your résumé for this target.

Four-part quality check

Targets one coherent role family

Uses evidence instead of adjectives

Reflects recurring posting language honestly

Is readable and error-checked

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What this progress shows

Target-role quality, evidence-bank completeness, résumé rubric score, and career confidence.