As of 13 August 2026, AI can work out which skills you need to learn for a new career.

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. Choose one target job title rather than asking about a whole industry, and write down your preferred UK location, working arrangement, available weekly time and learning budget.
   2. Open current UK job boards or employer careers pages and collect 3 to 6 complete adverts for closely related roles at the level you want.
   3. Paste your CV or a factual summary of your employment, projects, qualifications, software, responsibilities and measurable results into the prompt, removing contact details and other unnecessary personal data.
   4. Paste the job adverts and your constraints into a chatbot with the supplied prompt, then ask it to produce the evidence table, ranked skill gaps and learning plan.
   5. Compare every claimed requirement in the output with the original adverts, remove skills supported by only one irrelevant advert, and mark claims that the chatbot cannot trace to your evidence.
   6. Choose the highest-priority gaps that fit your time and budget, then verify the plan by checking current course pages, practising the skills in a small project and asking a person in the target role whether the resulting evidence would be credible.

   Prompt

   I want to move from [current role or background] into [target career or job title] in the UK.
   
   Here is my current experience and education:
   [Paste your CV or a factual summary]
   
   Here are several current UK job adverts for the target role:
   [Paste the full text or relevant sections of 3 to 6 adverts]
   
   My constraints are:
   - Time available to learn: [hours per week]
   - Budget: [amount or free only]
   - Target location or working arrangement: [location, remote, hybrid or on-site]
   - Deadline, if any: [date or none]
   - Qualifications I already hold: [list]
   
   Work out the skills I need to become a credible candidate. Separate them into:
   1. Skills I already demonstrate, with evidence from my experience.
   2. Transferable skills that need stronger evidence.
   3. Technical or professional skills I genuinely lack.
   4. Skills that are mentioned often but are not essential.
   
   For each gap, show which job adverts support it, why it matters, how I could demonstrate it in a portfolio or application, and a realistic learning route using free or low-cost resources. Prioritise the gaps by importance and learning effort. Do not invent experience, qualifications, employer requirements or course details. Flag anything that cannot be established from the information provided. End with a practical learning plan for the next [number] weeks and five questions I should ask someone already doing this job.

   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.