Career Change Documents: gaps, pivots and portfolios

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I'm learning "Career Change Documents: gaps, pivots and portfolios" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Your career story: from where you were to where you are going".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Targeted Applications: tailor and track (course 8.1.2). You should already be able to read a posting, build a match table, tailor a resume and cover letter, and keep a tracker. Here we go one step deeper: what to do when your history does not look like the job you want.
- Three common situations this course covers: a career change (new field), a gap (time away from paid work), and experience from another country. Many people have more than one.
- A career story has three parts: where you have been (true facts), what carries over (skills and results), and where you are going (one target job title). Without a single target, a resume tries to fit every door and fits none.
- Start with your skills, not your job titles. The UK's National Careers Service suggests looking at what you do in your current or most recent job, your past education and work, skills you have gained in daily life, and asking people who know you outside work for a different view.
- Check that the target is realistic before you write. Some jobs need a licence or certificate before you can do them (see the box below). For those, your documents should show your plan to get it, not pretend you have it.
- Example (Canadian practice): Canada's Job Bank has a Job Transition Tool. You enter an occupation you are qualified for and a location, and it lists jobs that need some extra ("gap") training and suit your goals. Many countries have similar career-planning tools on their government job sites.

The exercise I'm working on:
Write your three-sentence career story for one target job. Then ask someone who knows you well: "What am I good at that I did not mention?" Add one item if it is true and you can prove it.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Your career story: from where you were to where you are going" from the course "Career Change Documents: gaps, pivots and portfolios".

Here's what the lesson says:
Changing careers is like crossing a river. Your old job is one side, your new job is the other side. Your documents are the bridge: each plank is a real skill or a real result that helps you reach the other side.

The activity:
Write your three-sentence career story for one target job. Then ask someone who knows you well: "What am I good at that I did not mention?" Add one item if it is true and you can prove it.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.