Start with a task you can describe, including what did not work
Five activities concern steps, methods, checks, limits and assumptions. The inventory records which examples you recall, without rating the quality of your methods.
Count how many of the five tasks have each selected state: recent, older, explore or not recorded. The four counts sum to five. No average, level or strongest skill is calculated.
Five places to look for an example
This group asks about arranging steps, using a stated method, checking an output, noticing a limit and explaining an assumption. The activities are prompts for remembering an experience, not a complete technical-skills inventory. An example can come from work, study, a hobby or daily life and can have an unsuccessful outcome. Selecting recent does not mean the method was sound. The page stores no description or file and cannot inspect what you did, how difficult it was or what support you needed.
An inventory count is not a score
If your five choices are recent, recent, older, explore and not recorded, the display shows 2 recent, 1 older, 1 explore and 1 not recorded. The sum of five checks that each activity appears once. It does not award two skill points or place you above someone with fewer recent examples. A single older experience may be complex and well documented; several recent ones may be routine or unsuccessful. The report keeps the individual tasks and states visible rather than compressing them into a level.
Use an ordinary plan to make the evidence specific
Imagine organising a fictional study session. You listed topics, estimated time and checked which materials were available, but a topic took longer than expected. This can be an example of planning steps even though the schedule failed. Privately, you could note the aim, your part, the support used and the actual outcome. A counterexample is writing “excellent planning skills” with no event or criterion. The inventory does not require you to enter either account or let it judge which person has better planning ability.
Recency, memory and access have different meanings
Recent means within the past twelve months; older means before that. The boundary is an editorial convenience, not a scientific point at which skill expires. You may have relevant experience you do not recall now, or no opportunity to use a method. Choose not recorded when the activity is irrelevant, you cannot judge or you prefer not to answer. No state proves competence, incompetence or motivation. A tie between state counts is simply a tie in this small inventory, without a tiebreaker or a dominant profile.
Choose one example to revisit or one small task to explore
If useful, select one activity that matters to a task you actually want to do. For a recalled example, consider what the method was meant to achieve, what happened and which assumption might need checking now. For explore, identify a safe practice task and a source or person that can help define the requirements. You do not need to perform it or buy a course. Keep private material in an appropriate place outside the questionnaire and do not treat a remembered event as a current qualification.
Compare an example with a real requirement
An actual role or project can require a specific method, complexity, accuracy or permission. Read those requirements before deciding whether an example is relevant, and seek suitable feedback when needed. This original inventory has no norms, reliability findings or validated link to performance, salary or hiring. It is not a skills certificate or a ranking of people. All four full readings remain available when every item is not recorded, and sharing copies only a public title and link rather than your personal inventory.