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What is my skills gap for the job I want?
Name a role and rate yourself against what it actually involves. You'll see your skills gap: what is already yours and what is worth building. It is built from your answers, not a number we invented.
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The method
It shows you what the role actually asks, then you rate yourself, and the read is only ever your own
You name the role you are aiming at. If we can place it confidently, we show you the real capability statements for it, taken straight from the National Occupational Standards, and you rate yourself against each one as something you can already do, are part-way through, or have yet to build. If we cannot place the title well enough to answer, we say exactly that instead of guessing.
The readiness read that comes back is assembled only from your own answers. We never assert a gap from our graph, because the link between a role and its standards is a nearest-neighbour match and only approximate. Telling you that you are missing something we ourselves only half-know would be the dishonest move, so we show you the real titles and let your own ratings do the reading.
What sits behind the check
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The role match The catalogue search, with a confidence verdict
The title you type is resolved through the same search the browse front door uses. We read its confidence verdict rather than trusting the first result.
Built by Zavmo. A confident verdict proceeds, an ambiguous one asks you to pick, and an unplaceable one says so plainly, which is an answer rather than an error.
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The capability statements National Occupational Standards
The things you rate yourself against are the published UK statements of what competent performance in the occupation looks like.
External and public. These are real standard titles, not a checklist we wrote, and Zavmo does not invent them.
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Your self-ratings Your own answers, the only input to the read
For each statement you say whether you can do it already, are part-way there, or have yet to build it. Nothing else feeds the summary.
This is your own judgement of yourself. The readiness summary is a plain sort of your answers into three groups and adds no assumption on top.
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The occupation spine ONS SOC 2020
The official UK standard occupational classification the catalogue is organised against, which is how a typed title finds a role at all.
External and public.
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The level and qualification spine GOV.UK levels and the Ofqual register
Where a role carries a framework level or names a qualification, the level is a real regulated one and the qualification is read from the register.
External and public. Zavmo is not an awarding body and does not claim to be one.
Why the read is built only from your answers
The link between a role and its standards in our graph is a nearest-neighbour match, and it is approximate by design. It is good enough to show you the right kind of capability statements to think about, and it is not good enough to hang a verdict on. So the resolver hands us the standard titles, and it is only ever the titles that reach the screen.
That is the line we hold: we show you real things the role involves, and then your own can, part-way and not-yet answers are the whole of the reading. At no point does the tool tell you the graph thinks you have a gap. The gap, if there is one, is the one you named yourself.
What happens when we cannot place the role
The catalogue is UK-first and it is not complete. If the title is unplaceable, we say so and give you a route to browse or to start anyway, rather than dressing the nearest thing up as a match. A role outside the catalogue once returned several confident-looking but wrong matches, and this confidence contract is the fix for exactly that.
Where several roles genuinely fit what you typed, we do not pick between them for you. We show the distinct candidates and let you choose the one you mean, so the standards you rate yourself against are the ones for the job you actually had in mind.
The titles are real, the mapping is approximate
It is worth being precise about the two halves, because they carry different amounts of weight. A capability statement shown to you is a real National Occupational Standard title, published and external. The claim that this particular standard belongs to this particular role is our own approximate mapping, and it is the softer of the two.
So read the statements as a prompt about what the work involves, and read your own answers as the measurement. The readiness band is a summary of your answers and nothing more, which is why it can be a useful mirror without ever pretending to be a test you passed or failed.
What this is not
- The self-rating is your own judgement of yourself. It is not a validated or normed assessment, it has no reliability figure, and two people can rate the same statement very differently. It is built on real standards, but the rating itself is self-report.
- The capability statements shown are real National Occupational Standards titles, but the mapping from a role to its standards is approximate. It is a nearest-neighbour match, so we show the titles and never assert from the graph that you are missing any of them.
- The readiness read is not a pass or a fail and not a prediction. It is a plain summary of what you told us you can already do, are part-way through, and have yet to build.
- The catalogue is UK-first and incomplete. A title we cannot place confidently returns no result rather than a guess, and where a placed role has no task breakdown yet we say so rather than invent one.
References
Every reference below was checked against the publisher record for its identifier before it was written here, and every one links out so you can read it yourself. Where a paper is used as a frame rather than as data, the note under it says so.
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(2026). National Occupational Standards . The UK National Occupational Standards repository, accessed August 2026.
The skills spine under every role in the catalogue. National Occupational Standards are the published statements of what competent performance in an occupation looks like.
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(2026). Find a regulated qualification (the register of regulated qualifications) . Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. Live register, accessed August 2026.
Every qualification named anywhere on this site is a real, regulated one read from this register. Zavmo is not an awarding body and does not invent qualifications.
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(2020). Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2020 . Office for National Statistics. Published 2020, accessed August 2026.
The official occupation spine the catalogue is organised against: 9 major groups and roughly 412 unit groups.
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(2026). What different qualification levels mean . GOV.UK. Guidance, accessed August 2026.
Defines the regulated framework levels behind the level badge shown against a role. The level a set of standards sits at is a real national one, not a label of our own.
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