As of 13 August 2026, AI can suggest careers based on your skills.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

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

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a notes document and record your recent roles, regular tasks, strongest skills, qualifications, interests, disliked tasks and any limits on location, hours or retraining.
   2. Paste that information into the prompt under the matching headings, using specific examples such as software used, problems solved, customers supported or work completed.
   3. Paste the completed prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and save the six suggested directions and the questions it asks at the end.
   4. Open current UK job adverts for the proposed job titles on a job board or employer website and compare their required skills, qualifications, working patterns and locations with your notes.
   5. Remove any option whose entry requirements or working conditions conflict with your constraints, then ask the chatbot to revise the shortlist using those exclusions and the unanswered questions.
   6. Choose the two or three remaining directions and speak to a person who does that work, or contact a relevant professional body, to test whether the day-to-day work and entry route match the description.
   7. Use the verified shortlist to choose a next action, such as an introductory course, an informational conversation, a small portfolio project or an application for a suitable vacancy.

   Prompt

   Suggest realistic career directions for me in the UK based only on the information below.
   
   My current or recent work:
   [describe your roles, responsibilities and industries]
   
   Skills I use confidently:
   [list technical, practical, communication, organisational and people skills]
   
   Qualifications, training and experience:
   [list them, including anything unfinished]
   
   Tasks I enjoy:
   [list tasks and types of problems you like solving]
   
   Tasks I want to avoid:
   [list tasks, environments or pressures you dislike]
   
   Constraints:
   [location, remote or office preference, working pattern, salary needs, caring responsibilities, health or accessibility requirements, and whether retraining is possible]
   
   What matters to me in work:
   [list priorities such as stability, progression, creativity, public benefit, autonomy or work-life balance]
   
   For each suggested direction, give:
   1. The job titles I should search for in UK job adverts.
   2. Which of my stated skills and experience transfer to it.
   3. The gaps I would need to close.
   4. Entry routes, including whether a qualification, portfolio, licence or professional registration is commonly needed.
   5. Three useful UK search terms.
   6. One reason it may not suit me.
   
   Give me six options, grouped into close matches, plausible changes and larger changes. Do not invent facts about my experience, promise that I will get a job, or rank an option highly unless my information supports it. End with the three questions whose answers would most improve the shortlist.

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

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

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.