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Career Skills Gap Plan

A named target role, an honest map of what it demands against what you can show today, the three gaps worth closing first and a weekly practice system that proves they are closed.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Career Skills Gap Plan, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

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Projects

200

Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Career Skills Gap Plan

Comparing your current abilities with the target role and building a plan of projects and learning to close the gap.

  1. Choosing the target role for your gap plan
  2. Five live job adverts for the target role
  3. Requirements map from the target role adverts
  4. Honest self-rating against the requirements map
  5. Evidence behind every rating of three or four
  6. Outside ratings from three colleagues
  7. Ranked gap list by impact and effort
  8. The three gaps to close first
  9. Weekly hours and learning budget for the plan
  10. One-page twelve-month skills gap plan
  11. Protected weekly learning block
  12. Practice log for the skills you are building
  13. Monthly gap plan check-in
  14. Quarterly re-rating of the skills matrix
  15. Monthly feedback request on one skill
  16. Reading and listening queue for the target role
  17. Quarterly scan of fresh adverts for changed requirements
  18. Development slot in monthly manager conversations
  19. Keeping strong skills from fading
  20. Deliberate practice set-up for any new skill
  21. Clear writing for work documents
  22. Spreadsheet and data fluency for the target role
  23. Presenting to senior audiences
  24. Business and financial literacy for non-finance roles
  25. Working well with AI tools in your target role
  26. Running meetings and workshops that decide things
  27. Structured course for one technical gap
  28. Choosing course, stretch work or practice for each gap
  29. Deciding whether a credential is worth its cost
  30. Stretch assignment to close a priority gap at work
  31. Small proof project for one missing skill
  32. Business case for employer-funded training
  33. Shadowing someone already in the target role
  34. Dropping gaps that do not matter
  35. Workarounds for a weakness you will not fix
  36. Ninety-day gap plan sprint review
  37. Mock assessment against the target role's skills
  38. First real deliverable using a newly built skill
  39. Six-month progress report on the skills plan
  40. Readiness decision to apply now or keep building
  41. Gap plan for a parent with two hours a week
  42. Gap plan around shift work and irregular hours
  43. Gap plan in your first two years of work
  44. Refreshing skills that changed after twenty years
  45. Gap plan when your role is being automated or restructured
  46. Free and low-cost routes to close each gap
  47. Learning adjustments for dyslexia, ADHD or a disability
  48. Personal competency model with proficiency levels
  49. Skills gap analysis for your own team
  50. Scanning for skills your field will need in two years

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing the target role for your gap plan

A gap can only be measured against something, and plans aimed at "getting better generally" stall within a month because nothing tells you what to practise. Naming one target role, with a job title, a seniority level and a rough time horizon of 12 to 24 months, gives every later project in this area a fixed point to measure from.

First tasks

  • Write the job title you would like to hold in two years
  • Note the level and type of organisation that hires for that title
  • Park up to two alternative roles in a short list below it
  • Confirm the target role still fits your plans @recurring(yearly)

Five live job adverts for the target role

Your idea of a role and the market's description of it are rarely the same, and the adverts are where employers write down what they will actually test you on. Collecting five current adverts from different employers gives you the raw evidence for the gap analysis instead of guesses about what matters.

First tasks

  • Search two job boards for the exact target title and save three adverts
  • Find two more from employers of a different size or sector
  • Copy every essential and desirable requirement into one document
  • Label each advert with its date, employer type and location

Requirements map from the target role adverts

Five adverts produce forty or fifty requirements, many of them the same skill worded differently. Grouping them and counting how often each appears shows which abilities are table stakes, mentioned in four or five adverts, and which are one employer's wish list you can safely ignore.

First tasks

  • Ask the agent to group the copied requirements into distinct skills
  • Merge or split groups until each line is one testable skill
  • Count how many adverts mention each skill
  • Mark every skill named in three or more adverts as core

Make it yours.

Install Career Skills Gap Plan, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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