Modules
Every stage of your working life comes with paperwork, deadlines, and rules nobody hands you, until you need them. By then it's already too late. Know what's coming before it costs you.
Counterfile tells your complete employment story, not just what HR keeps for your employer.
Stages of your working life
Seven stages, one for every chapter of a job. Each gives you the free overview here, and a subscriber deep dive in the app.
Attraction
Before you're even hired, things can go sideways: a job posting that doesn't match the actual role, promises made in an interview that never make it into writing. This module shows you what to watch for, and what to do about it, before you accept an offer you'll regret.
Recruitment
Interviews, background checks, offer negotiations. This is where the employment relationship gets written, verbally and on paper. Learn what's actually enforceable, what's a red flag, and what to get in writing before you say yes.
Onboarding
Paperwork, benefits enrollment, policy acknowledgments you sign on day one and never see again, until they matter. This module walks you through what you're actually agreeing to, and what to keep a copy of.
Engagement
Performance reviews, one-on-ones, the day-to-day of doing your job. This is where patterns start (praise, criticism, promises), and where most employees stop keeping track. This module shows you what's worth documenting, as it happens.
Development
Promotions, training, raises you were told were coming. This module covers how career growth is supposed to work, and what to do when it doesn't, or when someone else's growth comes at your expense.
Retention
The conditions that keep you, or push you out. Schedule changes, shifting duties, a manager who's made your role harder than it should be. This module helps you recognize when “business as usual” isn't, and what your options actually are.
Separation
Resignation, termination, layoff, retirement. However it ends, this module covers what happens next: severance, final pay, references, and the paperwork that follows you to your next job.
Inside every deep dive
Go deeper on any stage
The deep dive for each stage is part of a Counterfile subscription, and it is where the real work happens.
Documents to retain
The specific records that matter at this stage, and why.
How to document
Exactly what to capture, how to capture it so it holds up, and when.
Laws and timelines
The protections that can apply at this stage, and the clocks that run.
Real scenarios
Situations that look like yours, and what documentation changed.
Best practices
A short, practical checklist you can actually follow.