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About this tool
Map your current skills onto a target role, score the overlap and gaps, and build an AI prompt that turns them into a switch plan.
The Career Switch Prompt Builder compares the skills you already have against the skills a target role advertises, scores the overlap as a percentage of the requirement list, and writes an AI prompt that turns that gap analysis into a switch plan. It also converts the gaps into a study budget — hours per missing skill multiplied by the number of gaps, divided by the hours you can study each week — so the plan has a real timeline attached. Built for people changing field who need to know what actually transfers before they rewrite a CV.
Open Career Switch Prompt Builder on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Enter your Current role and Target role, then paste comma-separated lists into the Current skills and Target skills boxes — the page opens on Marketing executive to Product manager.
Choose a Plan focus — prioritise the gap list, the CV rewrite, the interview narrative or the outreach messages — and the Overlap percentage, Band and Learning time in weeks recalculate as you type.
Read the Gaps line under the score, then press Copy prompt to put the generated switch-plan prompt on your clipboard; Reset basics restores the starting roles and focus.
Matching is case-insensitive and substring-aware, so 'Python' counts against 'Python scripting'.
Gaps × hours per skill ÷ hours per week gives a week count you can actually hold yourself to.
The prompt tells the AI to name which claimed skills would not survive a technical interview.
Compare your skills against the requirement list of several real job adverts: above roughly 80% overlap the move reads as a sideways step, 55–80% is a credible stretch with one bridging project, and below 30% usually needs retraining or an intermediate role. The percentage measures paper overlap only — evidence and referrals move the odds far more than the score does.
Transferable skills are capabilities that keep their value when the job title changes — stakeholder management, data analysis, writing, forecasting, project delivery — as opposed to tools or domain knowledge tied to one field. The practical test is whether a hiring manager in the new field would recognise the skill from your description without you explaining your old industry.
This tool uses a default planning figure of 40 hours of deliberate practice per missing skill, which is one full-time week, and you can change it. That is a budgeting assumption rather than a research finding — depth of skill, prior background and the complexity of the tool all move the real number substantially.
List the ones you could defend in an interview with a concrete example, and leave out anything you have only read about. Overstating overlap inflates the score and produces a plan that skips the gap you most need to close.