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Prompt repository Job search & careers

Map your skills to a new career

You need to see which of your skills transfer to a new field and what gaps to close first.

Registry no.
CAR-014
Collection
Job search & careers
Laid out for
Any chat model
Score
10 out of 10
Blanks to fill
6
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Job search & careersAny chat

The prompt

Score 10 of 10, Excellent

Use it when You need to see which of your skills transfer to a new field and what gaps to close first.

  • {{target_field}}
  • {{resume}}
  • {{other_experience}}
  • {{target_postings}}
  • {{why_change}}
  • {{constraints}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
I am thinking about moving into {{target_field}} and want an honest map of which of my skills transfer, what is missing, and what to do first.

My resume:
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{{resume}}
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Other relevant experience (side projects, volunteer work, courses), or "none":
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{{other_experience}}
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Two to five real job postings for the kind of role I want:
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{{target_postings}}
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Why I want to change: {{why_change}}
My constraints (time, money, location, need to keep earning): {{constraints}}

Task: Give me these parts.
1. Requirements: up to 12 skills, experience types and credentials the postings ask for, with how many of the pasted postings mention each, most common first.
2. A skills map table with the columns Requirement, My evidence (quoted from my resume or notes), Transfer (direct, partial or gap), and How to describe it in the new field's terms. For example, "ran monthly supplier reviews" might become "vendor management" if the postings use that term.
3. Gaps, ranked by how often the postings ask for them and how hard they are to close. Say plainly if a gap is a hard requirement, such as a license or degree the postings call required.
4. For each of the top three gaps, two or three ways to close it within my constraints, described by kind (a small project, a stretch assignment in my current job, volunteer work, a course), without naming providers or prices.
5. Bridge roles: jobs between my current work and the target that would use more of my experience, as ideas to research.
6. A two-sentence explanation of the move I could use in interviews, based on my reason above.
7. My first three steps for the next 30 days.

Rules:
- Count only from the pasted postings. Make no claims about demand, salaries or hiring trends in the field.
- Do not overstate how well a skill transfers. A partial match is partial.
- Do not invent experience or rename my experience as something it was not.

The map should be honest enough that I could show it to someone already in the field without embarrassment. If my resume does not make clear whether I have a skill, ask me rather than assuming. If I pasted fewer than two postings, say so at the top: the map rests on thin evidence, and more postings would make it more reliable.

Variables

{{target_field}}
The role or field you are considering, for example "UX research" or "project management in construction".
{{resume}}
Your resume, pasted as plain text.
{{other_experience}}
Side projects, volunteer work or courses that may be relevant. Write "none" if there are none.
{{target_postings}}
Two to five real job postings for the role you want, pasted in full.
{{why_change}}
Your real reason for wanting the change, in a line or two.
{{constraints}}
Time, money, location or other limits on how you can make the move.

Why it works

  • Background facts. Real job postings, not the model's idea of the field, decide what counts as a requirement, and each one is counted from what you pasted.
  • What good looks like. Each skill is rated direct, partial or gap with your own evidence quoted, so the map is honest about how far the move is.
  • What to avoid. No claims about demand, salaries or named courses, which a chat model cannot know reliably and which would make the plan look surer than it is.

How to use it

  1. Press Fill in variables and type your details into each blank. What you type stays in this browser.
  2. Copy the filled prompt into the AI tool you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, or open it in the Grader or the Prompt Tester here.
  3. Before you rely on it, try it on three or four real examples. The Prompt Tester runs them all at once and shows which ones go wrong.