Career evidence library for resumes and interview preparation
Keep achievements, skill examples and career stories with their sources. Review each fact, then reuse relevant evidence in your resumes and cover letters.
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Writing an application is easier when you can find the details behind your experience: what you did, the situation you worked in, and the result you can explain. Lyrra’s career evidence library gives those facts a home before you turn them into a resume bullet, a cover letter paragraph, or an interview example.
Save an item as a draft, review its accuracy, and mark it verified when it is ready to reuse. You can then choose verified evidence from the document builder and decide where it belongs.
Start your career evidence library
What counts as career evidence?
Career evidence is a specific fact or example from your experience, together with enough context to understand it. Lyrra supports achievements, responsibilities, skill examples, project results, behavioural stories, credentials, and portfolio proof.
A useful item might describe a process you improved, a project you delivered, a difficult decision you made or a qualification you earned. The library can serve as an achievement bank for your resume and a place to collect examples you want to practise explaining.
Fictional example: “Good at teamwork” names a quality but gives little to discuss. “Created a shared handover checklist and walked the support team through it before the product launch” records an action. You could add your role, the launch date, why the checklist was needed, and a link to supporting work where available.
Include results and numbers when you can support them. When you do not have a reliable measurement, describe the action and outcome clearly without inventing a percentage.
Add a fact or start from your saved Profile
Choose Add evidence to write an item yourself. Give it a short title, select the evidence type, and enter the fact or example. You can add background, an organisation, your role, dates, related skills and private tags to make it easier to find and understand later.
Alternatively, choose Import from Profile. Select a supported entry from your Lyrra Profile, such as experience, a project, education or a certification, then review the proposed fact before saving it. If you start from a skill, add an example of how you used it; a skill name alone does not explain your experience.
Profile import creates a copy for the evidence library. It does not keep the item synchronised with later Profile edits. Check the saved evidence separately when your information changes.
Keep the source with the claim
You can add supporting links to a manually created item. If you have no external source, you can still record a fact from your own recollection. The source gives you a way to revisit the basis of the statement; it is not an automatic endorsement of the claim.
Lyrra also offers Save as evidence from eligible saved practice items and interview answers. In an application case file, Save learning as evidence lets you review a recorded outcome. These routes open a draft for review and preserve a snapshot of the connected source.
Check what the source actually establishes. An answer rehearsed in a simulation may help you express an experience, but the rehearsal itself does not prove that the real-world event happened. Review the draft’s wording and context before saving and verifying it.
Review the item before marking it verified
New evidence starts as a draft. Open the item to review the fact, work context, and sources, and edit anything that needs clarification. Then use Verify evidence when you consider the information accurate and ready to reuse.
Verified means you have reviewed the item. It is not independent verification by Lyrra, an employer, or a credential provider. The status helps you distinguish material you are ready to use from material that still needs checking.
Changes to the fact or substantive context can return the item to draft status, so review it again after editing. Archive evidence you want to retain but keep out of the document picker; you can restore it later.
Find relevant evidence for the application
Search your library and filter by evidence type, state, or language. Use titles that describe the example, such as “Support-team launch handover”, so similar items are easier to distinguish.
For a role that emphasises coordination, look for examples of how you organised work or handled competing needs. For a technical role, look for relevant project results and skill examples. Select the evidence that helps explain your fit for the specific application.
Reuse verified facts in a resume or cover letter
In the resume and cover letter builder, open Use career evidence. The picker shows verified, unarchived items and lets you narrow the list by search, type, and language, with additional skill and organisation filters.
Select the evidence. Read the wording you are about to use.
Choose its destination. Available destinations include the professional summary, existing experience, project or volunteer entries, and the cover letter body, depending on the document.
Review the preview and insert. Check how the fact reads beside the existing content.
Save the document. Saving also records the evidence insertion for the library’s document-use history.
Insertion uses the saved fact’s wording. It does not automatically translate it or rewrite it for the job. Adjust the document’s surrounding text and check that the final application remains consistent with your experience.
See where an item has been used
The evidence detail view includes Used in documents, with recorded document names, destinations, and insertion dates. Open a listed document when you want to review how you used the example.
This is a history of insertions, not a live check of every sentence. Later document edits may have changed or removed the wording. Editing or deleting the library item does not rewrite content already copied into documents.
Frequently asked questions
How is Career evidence different from Notes?
Notes hold working research, questions, and preparation. Career evidence keeps specific reusable facts with sources and a review status. My Documents holds the resumes and cover letters you create from selected material.
Do I need a supporting link for every item?
No. You can save an item based on personal recollection and add context yourself. Supporting links are optional, and the responsibility for checking the claim remains with you.
Why can’t I find an item in the document picker?
Check that it is verified and unarchived. Then check the active search and filters, including language. Draft items stay in the library until you review and verify them.
Can I use the library for interview preparation?
Yes. Keep examples you can explain and review their context before practising. Eligible interview answers can also become evidence drafts. Saving an item does not automatically add it to every future interview session.
Is my evidence a public portfolio?
No. The library is part of your signed-in Lyrra workspace. You choose which facts to insert into application documents and which documents to share.
Start with one example you know well. Record the action, add the context you will want later, and review it before using it in your next application.