Experiments

Skill gap analyzerThe distance between
where you are and where the job is.

Skill gaps are not equal and people work on the wrong ones. The natural instinct is to improve what you are already good at — it is pleasant, progress is visible, and you get to feel competent. The gap that is actually blocking you is usually one you are bad at, do not enjoy, and have been quietly avoiding for two years.

Free, no sign-up. Worked out in your browser, nothing sent anywhere, and the result imports into EvyOS.

The capabilities

From the role. Six to ten is usually the honest list.

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List at least three capabilities the role needs.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Get the list from the role, not from yourself

A job advert, a promotion rubric, or somebody already doing it. Your own list will quietly omit the things you dread.

2
Weight before you score

How much the role needs it, decided before you look at your own level, or the weights bend towards what you already have.

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Take the top two

The weighted gaps, not the largest ones. They are rarely the same and only one of them matters.

This weights each capability by how much the role actually needs it, so a small gap in something critical outranks a large gap in something optional. That single weighting is what changes the answer, and it usually changes it to something uncomfortable.

It then names the two to work on. Two, because a development plan with nine lines is a document rather than a plan.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

Questions

Skill gap analyzer, answered.

Take it from a job advert, a promotion rubric, or somebody already doing it. Do not write the list yourself — your own version will quietly omit the two things you dread, which are usually the two that matter.
Because a two-point gap in something critical blocks you and a five-point gap in something optional does not. Unweighted, the list tells you to work on whatever you happen to be worst at, which is frequently irrelevant.
Because a large gap in something you dislike is the classic blocked capability. Nobody accidentally practises the thing they dread, so it stays exactly where it is while everything else improves around it — and it needs a scheduled slot rather than good intentions.
Around 70 to 80 per cent is where people are hired and then learn the rest, which is how most roles are actually filled. Waiting for 100 means waiting for a job you are already overqualified for.
Send it across and each becomes a goal and a skill record in EvyOS with a current and target level, so the practice you log accumulates against the gap rather than disappearing.

Keep the answer.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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