Guides for keeping track of your work, and getting credit for it
Templates and real examples for the moments your work has to be written down: the Friday update, review season, setting goals, and asking for more.
- Work journalHow to keep a work journal you'll actually useHow to keep a daily work journal you'll actually use at review time, with a copyable work journal template and real examples. A couple of minutes a day.
- Weekly reportsA weekly report template, minus the Friday scrambleA weekly report template and format you can copy, a filled-in sample report to a manager, and a way to stop writing it from memory every Friday.
- Self-reviewSelf-evaluation examples for software engineersSelf-evaluation examples and sample answers for software engineers, junior to staff, from key accomplishments to areas for improvement, plus a way to stop rebuilding six months from memory.
- Work goalsWork goals examples you can actually check offWork goals and professional goals examples for engineers, written so you can tell at review time whether you hit them. Includes a SMART template, goals by category and level, and how to track progress.
- Asking for a raiseHow to ask for a raise, with the evidence to back it upHow to ask for a raise without winging it. Build the case from your actual work, pick the timing, use a short script and an email template, and know what to do if the answer is "not now".
- RésuméResume bullet points that show what you actually didHow to write resume bullet points that show results. The XYZ formula, before-and-after examples for software engineers, how to find your numbers, and how to tailor bullets to a job description.
- AI agents (MCP)Let your coding agent keep your work logConnect Perfly's MCP server and your coding agent can send a short summary of today's work to your log, after you OK it. Perfly never receives your code or diffs.
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