As of 13 August 2026, AI can assess whether your work skills are outdated.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open several current UK job adverts for the role or roles you want, and copy the full requirements and responsibilities into one document.
   2. Gather your current CV, recent projects, regular responsibilities, tools used, qualifications and measurable work outcomes, removing confidential employer or customer information.
   3. Paste the job advert text and your work evidence into the prompt, naming which evidence belongs to which role.
   4. Ask the chatbot to compare each skill with the supplied adverts and to separate outdated skills from skills that are merely irrelevant to your target roles.
   5. Check every assessment in the returned table against the exact wording of the job adverts and delete conclusions that have no cited evidence.
   6. Ask a colleague, recruiter or hiring manager in your target field whether the three proposed next actions match what employers are currently asking for.
   7. Update your learning or job-search plan only after comparing the chatbot's gaps with another set of suitable UK vacancies.

   Prompt

   Assess whether my work skills are outdated for the UK roles I am considering.
   
   My current or recent role: [ROLE AND INDUSTRY]
   My target roles: [ONE OR MORE JOB TITLES]
   My location or preferred working area: [UK LOCATION OR REMOTE]
   My CV or skills summary: [PASTE CV OR SUMMARY]
   Recent work examples, including tools, methods and outcomes: [PASTE EXAMPLES]
   Current job adverts or role profiles: [PASTE THE FULL TEXT OR LINKS]
   
   Use only the information I provide and clearly identified requirements in the supplied job adverts or role profiles. Do not invent employers, technologies, qualifications, salaries, market trends or achievements. Separate skills that appear current, skills that appear less requested, and skills that are missing or need updating. For every conclusion, quote or identify the specific evidence it relies on. Distinguish an outdated skill from a skill that is simply less relevant to my target role. Give me a table with these columns: skill, evidence I have, evidence from the target roles, assessment, confidence, and next check. Then give me the three most useful next actions, prioritised by likely employability value and effort. State what this comparison cannot establish, list any missing information, and suggest questions I should ask a recruiter or hiring manager. Do not tell me to retrain unless the supplied evidence supports it.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.