Tools for recurring client work and job searches.
Review a client request before quoting, or use All My Ducks to manage ongoing client work in Notion. Browse job-search tools for checking application facts, preparing for a recruiter screen and reviewing a finished take-home assignment. The Hiring Integrity Scorecard and Candidate Labor Standard are free.
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All My Ducks
Notion template
One payment$29
All My Ducks is for consultants, fractional executives, freelancers and other independent professionals who manage several clients. Three connected databases keep client projects, tasks, meetings, follow-ups, updates and records together in Notion.
See what needs attention
Choose one record, then give waiting work a follow-up date.
Keep a usable record
Prepare client updates, save approved results and use that record when work renews or ends.
Use it in Notion
Add the template to your own workspace. Daily views fit the phone app; initial setup suits a computer.
Check what a client request includes and what still needs an answer. Estimate the hours behind a fixed fee, including meetings and revisions, before you send the quote.
Review the request
Prepared checks help you record missing details and assumptions. The workbook collects your unresolved questions.
Check the hours behind the fee
Enter your estimates and direct costs. See the return per hour and how extra work changes it, before overhead and tax.
Both formats are included
Use Google Sheets or desktop Microsoft Excel. Two fictional examples and an optional AI prompt explain how to use the workbook.
Compare dates, job titles, numbers, links and credentials across your resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio and application before you submit.
Record the fact you can verify
Keep the date, title, number, link or other fact beside the source you are allowed to retain.
Compare four places
Status menus show which facts match, are missing, conflict, need proof or are out of date.
Use Excel or Google Sheets
The workbook includes 28 prepared checks, 12 custom rows, an updating Summary and a fictional example.
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Recruiter Screen Live Reference
15-page fillable PDF
Price$19
Prepare for a phone or video recruiter screen, keep the PDF open during the call and write down the next step afterward. Six extra pages keep the dates and numbers for work examples you may use later.
During the screen
Keep your introduction, work examples, questions for the recruiter, compensation notes and logistics on one page.
Before and after
Check dates and numbers before the conversation. Afterward, write down what the recruiter promised, any facts you need to check, the next step and whether you want to continue.
File details
One 15-page fillable PDF with a page for the call, a fact check, a page for notes afterward and six pages for documenting work examples.
You've done the take-home. Give the finished assignment a final sanity check before you submit or present it. The workbook gathers the issues you record into one correction list with locations.
Check the finished assignment
Review the requirements, sources, private material and final file. Use it for a case study, work sample, presentation, written brief or spreadsheet.
Get help if you want it
An optional ChatGPT or Claude prompt helps find where your draft answers each requirement. You review its table and decide what needs fixing.
Both formats are included
Use Google Sheets or current desktop Excel. A completed fictional example shows six problems and their corrections.
Use 12 questions to review one current hiring process. Choose the version written for your role. No account is required.
Use it online
See your results in the browser. Your answers stay on your device and are not sent to West of Obvious.
Print it
Download fillable worksheets for each role, along with instructions and a short Start Here guide.
Who may use it
Use it for your own job search or inside one company. Paid client use requires written permission.
Use evidence that already exists before asking a candidate to make something new. Keep sample work short and fictional. If the company wants substantial work it can use, pay for it and agree on ownership first.
Read it online
The permanent page works well on phones. Anyone can link to it or use it without an account.
Keep a copy
The one-page PDF supports search and text selection, and it prints cleanly. It links back to the related public work.
Use the whole standard
It is free, complete, and available without an account or email address.
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