CAREER PLANNING CANVAS
A serious job search involves notes, documents, applications, interview feedback, and negotiation reports that are easy to lose track of individually. Lyrra's career planning canvas brings those pieces into one visual workspace so you can see the full picture, connect the moving parts, and plan what needs to happen next.
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A serious job search can spread across notes, documents, applications, interview feedback, and salary negotiation reports quickly. Lyrra's career planning canvas brings those pieces into one visual workspace so you can organise your thinking instead of jumping between disconnected tools.
Bring Your Career Workspace Together
The canvas can surface content from across Lyrra, including notes, saved documents, job tracker entries, interview feedback, and salary negotiation reports. You can drag those items into a board and review them alongside your own planning blocks.
This is what makes the canvas different from a general whiteboard tool. It is not an empty space you fill from scratch. It has access to the materials you have already created in Lyrra, which means it becomes a connected planning surface rather than yet another separate place to maintain.
Use Sticky Notes, Groups, Shapes, and Connectors
This is a spatial planning board, not a list. You can add sticky notes, text blocks, groups, arrows, connectors, and styled shapes. You can move items around, group related ideas, connect important dependencies, and arrange a board by company, role, interview stage, risk, follow-up plan, or preparation theme.
Shapes support fill and stroke styling, and connectors attach to objects so they stay in position as you rearrange the board. The result is a
workspace that adapts to how you think about your search rather than forcing everything into a fixed structure.
Zoom, Pan, Autosave, and Export Your Board
The canvas supports zoom, pan, undo and redo, autosave with throttled saving behaviour, and image export. A read-only minimap stays synced with your nodes, groups, connections, and viewport so you do not lose orientation on larger boards.
Desktop and mobile layouts diverge intentionally. On mobile, creation tools appear in a drawer or rail rather than the main canvas toolbar, making it easier to work on a board without the interface getting in the way.
Start From an Interview Prep Board Template
The canvas includes an Interview Prep board template for when you want a structured starting point before a conversation. It helps you map role context, likely questions, STAR stories, risk areas, and final preparation steps. Because the board can sit beside notes, feedback, tracker items, and documents, it becomes a visual job search workspace rather than a standalone whiteboard.
When a List Is Not Enough
Some parts of a job search are easier to understand spatially. The relationship between the two companies you are weighing. The overlap between your preparation gaps and an upcoming interview. The logical flow from a company's stated needs to the examples in your STAR stories.
Lists and trackers capture data. A canvas captures thinking. For job seekers managing multiple active opportunities at different stages, having both on the same platform, connected to the same materials, is a meaningful difference.