As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly choose a career that suits your skills.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

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

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

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

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current CV, recent appraisals or work notes and copy out your actual responsibilities, achievements, qualifications and recurring tasks.
   2. Write down the work you enjoy, the work you avoid, your preferred working conditions and practical constraints such as location, caring responsibilities, salary needs or retraining time.
   3. Paste that information into the prompt, separating facts from preferences and marking anything you are unsure about.
   4. Ask the chatbot for the shortlist, evidence, skill gaps and low-cost tests in the format specified by the prompt.
   5. Open current UK job adverts for the suggested roles and compare their duties, entry requirements, location, working pattern and progression routes with the chatbot's claims.
   6. Speak to people doing at least the most promising roles, using the suggested questions, and record which parts of the work match your expectations.
   7. Choose one or two reversible tests, such as a short project, job-shadowing conversation, volunteering activity or introductory course, then update the chatbot with what you learned before deciding whether to apply or retrain.

   Prompt

   Help me identify careers that may suit my skills and circumstances in the UK. Do not choose for me or present a recommendation as certain.
   
   My information:
   - Current or recent roles: [paste here]
   - Main responsibilities and achievements: [paste here]
   - Skills I use confidently: [paste here]
   - Tasks I enjoy and dislike: [paste here]
   - Qualifications, training and licences: [paste here]
   - Industries or subjects that interest me: [paste here]
   - Preferred working conditions, such as office, remote, outdoors, shifts or teamwork: [paste here]
   - Constraints, such as location, caring responsibilities, health needs, salary requirements or retraining time: [paste here]
   - Careers I have already considered: [paste here]
   
   First, separate my evidence-based skills from assumptions. Then suggest a shortlist of up to six UK career directions. For each one, explain which evidence from my information supports it, which parts may not suit me, typical entry routes to investigate, likely skill gaps, and a low-cost way to test the idea before committing. Do not invent facts about my experience, employers, salaries, vacancies or qualifications. Flag anything that needs checking against current UK job adverts, employer websites or GOV.UK. Include two questions I should ask someone already doing each role. Finish with a comparison table and a neutral list of next actions, not a single final answer.

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