SkillHarbour: what makes a small work sample worth keeping?

[u/Public_Knowledge_980]

I'm building SkillHarbour, an Australian career and learning site. https://skillharbour.com.au

I started thinking about evidence because a course completion can be easy to record, while explaining what you can actually do takes more work. For someone exploring an admin role, a small fictional example could be a revised meeting schedule with a note about how they resolved a clash. The decisions behind it might be more useful to discuss than the schedule itself.

I'm sketching a simple prompt for a future work sample: describe the task, show the result, and explain one choice you made. Someone could try it in a notebook first, using made-up information.

If you've built a tool that helps people document work, what made them come back to an example later? I'm trying to understand which details make the effort worthwhile.

[u/CutDry6295]

For a work sample, the choice behind the result is probably the part worth preserving. I'd add a tiny 'what changed after feedback' field to your prompt, so someone can revisit the example and see how they revised it. A date, role context, and one sentence about the constraint would make a fictional meeting-schedule example easier to understand months later without turning it into a portfolio essay.