Vocations · Job Skills

Track what you can do now,
not just the hours.

Hours prove you showed up; this log shows what you learned. After each shift, note every skill you practiced and how independently, from watching to doing it alone, plus the tools, the safety steps and one question for your mentor. The log follows each skill across shifts and tells you when it is time to ask for a turn.

Log a shiftWhat you get
$5one-time · every device you sign in on
Buy · $5

Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Job search kit, $29 for 34 items.

Shifts

The worked example is made up: an electrical apprentice’s first three shifts on a school renovation, with pulling wire going from watched to on my own and the panel schedule watched three times. Records save on this device only.

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What you get

Vocations · Job Skills$5

What you finish with
A record per shift with date, employer and site, mentor and hours; each skill with how independently it was done and the tools; what the work was; four safety checks; a question for the mentor, their feedback and sign-off; each skill’s highest level across all shifts; flags for a skill only watched on three or more shifts, a shift with no question and an entry not signed.
Who it is for
Registered and pre-apprentices, trainees, interns and new employees learning a trade or job on site, and the mentors who sign off their progress.
Format
Browser log with a saved record per shift. Prints a shift for sign-off, the whole log as a table or a blank log for the site; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Job search kit ($29) and the Vocations Suite pass ($99), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Job Skills space in Caveat Vocations.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Fill it in at the end of each shift, while you remember.
  2. Name each skill the same way every time.
  3. Be honest about the level: watched, with help, on your own.
  4. Write one question, and ask it on the next shift.
  5. Ask your mentor to read and sign off the entry.

Log a shift

Watch, help, own, teach

How a skill is learned on the jobWatchThe mentor does itand explains whyWith helpYou do it; thementor guides andchecksOn your ownYou do it; thementor checks theresultTeach itYou can showsomeone else, andsay whyHow a skill is learned on the jobWatchThe mentor does it and explains whyWith helpYou do it; the mentor guides and checksOn your ownYou do it; the mentor checks the resultTeach itYou can show someone else, and say why
Registered apprenticeships record competencies as well as hours; a log like this is the evidence behind each sign-off.

Hours and competencies

A registered apprenticeship follows a schedule of work processes and can measure progress by time, by demonstrated competency or both. Your sponsor’s hours tracker counts the time; a learning log shows which skills you can do and to what standard, which is what a mentor signs off and what an employer asks about later.

Safety is part of the skill

Every task has its own protective equipment and steps, and on electrical and machine work that includes lockout/tagout to control hazardous energy. Log them with the skill. If something nearly went wrong, report it; near misses are how a site prevents injuries.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Labor. Apprenticeship.gov: registered apprenticeship standards, work processes and competency-based progress.
  2. 29 CFR 29.5: standards of apprenticeship, including time-based, competency-based and hybrid approaches.
  3. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 29 CFR 1910.132 (personal protective equipment) and 1910.147 (control of hazardous energy, lockout/tagout).
  4. Collins, A., Brown, J. S., and Newman, S. E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: modeling, coaching and fading.

The worked example is made up. Your sponsor’s and employer’s records are the official ones; this log supports them. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.