Your Career Vault is the evidence library behind your job search. You accomplish things every day — but when it's time to update your CV or prepare for an interview, the details are easy to forget. Log each achievement here once, then reuse it everywhere: your CV, job applications, cover letters, and interview stories.
Find it in the sidebar under Career Vault.
Capturing an achievement
Capturing takes under 30 seconds:
- On the Career Vault page, type in the "What did you accomplish recently?" bar (or click New achievement).
- The capture page opens with your note already in the box. Add any more detail.
- Click Save achievement (or Structure to build structured fields first) — that's it. Talent & Story uses your first line as the title and keeps your whole note as the description.
Don't wait for perfect numbers. A short entry is worth keeping — you can enrich it any time with Edit.
Other ways to capture
Talent & Story gently reminds you to log wins in a few places — each one opens the same capture page:
- A "What did you accomplish recently?" card on the dashboard (dismissible; shrinks to a one-liner as your vault grows).
- A nudge after you create a job application.
- A nudge after you add a project.
Structuring a note
Structure reads your note locally and proposes structured fields: title, situation, action, result, metrics, skills, and domain. It's a proposal only — nothing is saved until you review and confirm the values.
It never invents facts. It won't invent numbers, companies, or outcomes that aren't in your text — anything it couldn't find is simply left empty for you to fill in. If no metric was detected, estimate the impact yourself where you can — even an approximate number makes an achievement stronger.
This runs entirely in your browser — no account is charged, and nothing is sent to a server.
The structured form
Open Edit on any achievement to see the full form:
- Title + description — what you did and the impact.
- Story — Situation, Action, and Result.
- Impact — metrics with a value and unit, plus the date.
- Context — company, role, industry, project, and difficulty.
- Organizing — record type, domain, and skills.
- Proof — an optional URL backing the achievement.
Achievement Strength
Every achievement gets a Strength score (0–100) from a simple checklist: a clear title, real content, a specific action, a result, a measurable metric, context, skills, and domain. It's a guide to writing stronger achievements — not an ATS score. The checklist in the detail view shows exactly what's missing and how to fix it.
Cards don't show a Strength badge until a score is calculated; the detail drawer always computes one for you.
Finding your best work
The vault toolbar helps you sort and filter:
- Sort — by Recently updated, Date created, Title, Category, or Strength, each with ascending/descending.
- Filters — by strength (Strong, 60+ or Needs improvement), record type, domain, skill, company, or project. A filter only appears when you have values for it.
- Search — matches achievement titles and descriptions.
- Views — switch between grid and table.
Reusing achievements
- Use in CV — link the achievement to one or more resumes. The linked resume renders it in the CV section matching its record type: accomplishments attach to a specific role's key accomplishments (pick which role), while awards, certifications, publications, languages, and skills land in their own sections; anything else goes to the Key Achievements section right after Experience. The picker shows where each achievement will land, and the placement is visible in the preview and every export (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, plain text). The card shows Used in N resumes. Unlink to remove it from that resume.
- Add to job application — attach the achievement to applications in your Job Tracker.
- Relevant achievements — on any application's detail page, this panel scores your whole vault against the role, shows the best matches with a match percentage, and lets you add or remove them with a toggle. See Job tracker.
- Interview Stories — turn an achievement into a story you can tell aloud (below).
Interview Stories
The Interview Stories tab groups your stories by behavioral competency (Leadership, Problem Solving, Teamwork, and more). From any achievement, choose Create My Story to open an editor pre-filled with the achievement's situation, action, and result. Add the task and a reflection, then save as draft or Mark complete.
Draft from achievement fills the story from your saved achievement. Anything it can't find is marked [missing: ...] for you to fill in. Review and edit before saving.
Use the competency filter — or try the phrase "Show me my strongest stories for leadership" — to surface the right story before an interview.
Quick tools
From an achievement's detail view, the Quick tools group offers proposal-only helpers (all free, all local — no account limits):
- Review — actionable suggestions that make the achievement stronger without changing the facts.
- Find skills — the skills the achievement demonstrates.
- Generate variations — CV, LinkedIn, interview, and cover-letter versions.
Every output is a proposal you can edit — apply only what you want.
Importing from a resume
Import from resume pulls qualifying items from your resume (experience bullet points, certifications, awards, publications, languages, and skills) and adds them to your Career Vault as achievements — one-way: your resume is never changed. Already-imported items are marked and skipped, so re-importing stays clean. The dialog names the exact resume it reads from.
Which resume it uses:
- It imports from your Active resume.
- If several resumes are Active (Pro), it imports from the one currently open in the CV Builder; if none is open, it uses the most recently updated active resume.
- If no resume is marked Active, the action is disabled — mark one Active on the CV Builder dashboard first.
It's the reverse direction of Add from Career Vault in the CV Builder: the Experience editor adds selected achievements as bullets on a specific role, and the Awards, Certifications, Publications, Skills, and Languages editors reference achievements into their matching sections.
Deleting
Deleting an achievement removes it, its stories, and its references from resumes and job applications. Your resume and job data are unchanged.
Tips
- Log achievements as they happen, not at interview time — short entries are fine.
- Add a number wherever you can; metrics are what make bullets and stories land.
- Use domains and skills to organize, then sort by Strength or filter to Strong (60+) to find your best material fast.