As of 13 August 2026, AI can identify gaps in your digital 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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open two or three current UK job adverts for the role you want and copy their digital tools, responsibilities and person-specification requirements into a document.
   2. Gather your CV, portfolio links, training records and a plain list of software and digital tasks you have used, separating tasks you can complete alone from tasks where you need help.
   3. Paste that information into the prompt, replacing each bracketed section with your target role, evidence and job-advert text.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the skills table, likely gaps, practical tests and learning order specified in the prompt.
   5. Compare each proposed requirement with the wording in the original job adverts and delete any gap that came only from an unsupported assumption or a keyword.
   6. Complete the practical tests for the remaining essential gaps, save the results or screenshots, and ask the chatbot to compare those results with the stated requirements without treating the test as formal certification.

   Prompt

   I want to identify gaps in my digital skills for [target role or career direction] in the UK.
   
   Use the information below:
   
   My current experience:
   [Paste your CV, work history or a clear summary of what you have done]
   
   Digital tools and tasks I currently use:
   [List software, platforms, methods and tasks, including how often you use them]
   
   Tasks I can complete without help:
   [List specific tasks]
   
   Tasks I struggle with or have never tried:
   [List specific tasks]
   
   Target job adverts or person specifications:
   [Paste two or three current UK job adverts, with company names and identifying details removed if preferred]
   
   Assess me without inventing experience or treating a keyword as proof of competence. Produce:
   1. A table with each digital skill required by the target roles, my evidence for it, your confidence that I have it, and the evidence still missing.
   2. A separate list of likely gaps, divided into essential, useful and optional.
   3. For each likely gap, one practical test I can complete without claiming professional experience, plus what a competent result should contain.
   4. A short order for addressing the gaps, based on relevance to the target roles and the time needed to demonstrate each skill. Do not invent time estimates.
   5. Questions that would materially change your assessment.
   
   Flag any conclusion based only on my self-report or on vague wording in a job advert. Do not tell me that I am ready for a job unless the evidence supports that conclusion.

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