As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a career change plan for you.

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, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current CV and a blank document, then gather your recent job titles, main responsibilities, achievements, qualifications, skills, salary constraints, location, caring commitments and available learning time.
   2. Choose two to four career areas or job titles you are considering, or write that you need the model to suggest options, and record what attracts you to each one.
   3. Paste the information into the prompt and ask the chatbot to create the ranked options, skills-gap table, experiments and 12-week plan without inventing facts.
   4. Open current UK job adverts for each proposed direction and paste representative requirements into a second chat, asking the model to compare them with your actual experience and flag missing evidence.
   5. Check each training suggestion, qualification requirement and public-sector route against GOV.UK, the National Careers Service or the relevant professional body's current information before paying for anything.
   6. Complete the proposed small experiments, such as an informational conversation, a short practical task or a relevant volunteer project, and add what you learned to the plan.
   7. Rewrite the plan into weekly calendar actions with named outputs, then use your own financial and personal constraints to decide whether to test the route, apply for roles or seek advice from a qualified career professional.

   Prompt

   Create a practical UK career change plan for me using the information below.
   
   My current or recent roles:
   [PASTE YOUR CV OR WRITE YOUR WORK HISTORY]
   
   Skills I use regularly:
   [LIST YOUR TECHNICAL, PRACTICAL AND PEOPLE SKILLS]
   
   Work I enjoy and work I want less of:
   [DESCRIBE THIS]
   
   Career areas or job titles I am considering:
   [LIST THEM, OR SAY THAT I AM OPEN TO OPTIONS]
   
   Constraints:
   - Minimum acceptable salary: [AMOUNT OR NOT SURE]
   - Location and willingness to commute or relocate: [DETAILS]
   - Remote or office preference: [DETAILS]
   - Hours, caring responsibilities or health-related work limits: [DETAILS OR NONE]
   - Time and budget available for learning: [DETAILS]
   - Target timescale: [DETAILS]
   
   Produce:
   1. Two to four realistic target career directions, ranked by fit.
   2. For each direction, explain which parts of my experience transfer, which requirements I lack, likely entry routes and the main risks.
   3. Separate facts from assumptions and mark anything that needs checking.
   4. A skills-gap table with the skill, why it matters, how I can test or build it, and evidence I could add to a CV.
   5. A 12-week action plan with weekly actions, estimated effort, outputs and a low-cost option where possible.
   6. A job-search plan covering suitable UK job titles, search terms, employers or sectors to investigate, networking and applications.
   7. Three small experiments I can complete before committing to a major career change.
   8. Questions I should answer before spending money on training or leaving my current job.
   
   Do not tell me that a career is suitable solely because it is popular or well paid. Do not invent qualifications, salaries, vacancies, labour-market facts or employers. Where current information is needed, tell me exactly what to check on GOV.UK, the National Careers Service, an employer's website or a current job advert. Keep the plan specific to my information, realistic about uncertainty and clear about what I must decide myself.

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