Show what you can do.
You have to keep the learning documentation anyway. So it might as well do something for you: a better appraisal meeting, an honest overview before the qualification procedure and proof that you are making progress.
What you get out of it
Not for the filing cabinet and not for your trainer. For you.
In the appraisal meeting
Once a semester you sit down with your company. If you can say “In March I built the role concept, here it is”, you talk on an equal footing. You assess yourself beforehand and bring your entries and grades, instead of having to remember half a year.
Before the qualification procedure
Towards the end of your apprenticeship you want to know what you have mastered and where the gaps are. Your competency picture shows which performance objectives are evidenced and which are still open. So you can catch up in a targeted way while there is still time.
For yourself
In everyday work you hardly notice that you are getting better. When you scroll back after a few months, you see in black and white everything you can do by now. That feels good, especially in weeks when things are tough.
Thinking it over turns experience into skill
Writing down only what you did ticks the box. Asking yourself why something worked and what you will do differently next time is how you learn from it. A Swiss study with 132 apprentices shows: those who start their learning journal early and use it to plan and check their work tend to finish their apprenticeship with better grades. So you do not face a blank page, questions guide you through your journal.
- A reflection model guides you through your journal stage by stage
- Your answers are mapped to matching competencies automatically
- If something is missing, you get feedback right on the entry
Write it down while you still remember
By Friday you often no longer know exactly what happened on Monday. So you capture an activity right after the work, in a few seconds. mentro maps it to the matching performance objectives, and when your next journal is due, you already have material for it.
- Title, duration, date, done
- Mapping to the curriculum happens automatically
- In the browser and as an app on your phone
See honestly where you stand
Everything you capture, plus the assessments from your company, builds a picture of your competencies. It also shows what is not yet evidenced. That is not a verdict on you, but a pointer to what you can focus on next.
- Depth and breadth per area of competence
- What your company observes and assesses counts too
- You see early what you still want to work on
Everything else mentro can do, from goals to grades, is on the features page.
Your company doesn’t use mentro yet?
Tell your trainer about it or forward them this page. You can look at the test environment together.