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A handbook
The AI Career Handbook
Choose your next role, close your skills gaps and move into the jobs employers are filling
33 pages · about 21 minutes to read · PDF
Inside the guide
12 chapters, and what each one leaves you able to do.
- 01
Define the job you are aiming at
You write down the role, sector and salary band you will pursue for the next six months.
- 02
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- 03
Audit the AI skills you already have
You list your existing tools, projects and results and put a market rate on each one.
- 04
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- 05
Test which AI roles are hiring now
You read twenty live adverts and record the tasks, tools and pay they repeat.
- 06
Cut your list to two target roles
You pick two roles you will apply for and drop the rest for this year.
- 07
Score your gaps against real adverts
You mark each advert requirement as met, partly met or missing, with evidence.
- 08
Plan how you close each gap
You match every missing requirement to a course, project or internal move with a deadline.
- 09
Build two pieces of checkable proof
You finish one portfolio project and one written case study an employer can inspect.
- 10
Rewrite your CV for AI hiring managers
You rewrite your CV around the advert language and add a skills block that passes the screen.
- 11
Run the interview and salary conversation
You answer the technical questions and name a number you can defend.
- 12
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01
Define the job you are aiming at
You write down the role, sector and salary band you will pursue for the next six months.
You have decided to move into AI work, and you have not decided what job you want. That gap costs you money and time. A hiring manager reads a CV with no target and puts it down, because they cannot tell which shortlist you belong on. This chapter gets you to one written target: a role, a sector and a salary band. The guide assumes you have paid work behind you, a CV you can edit and roughly six hours a week for the next six months. It assumes you can read a job advert and use a spreadsheet. If you hold those three things, you can do this today, whichever job title sits at the top of your CV.
Open a spreadsheet and make four columns: role, sector, salary band, advert count. In the advert count column you will put a number, not an opinion. Go to two job boards and one company careers page in the sector you already know best, because your existing knowledge of an industry buys you more than a new industry buys you. Search three job titles you would accept. Add any other title that appears twice in the results, even if you have not heard of it. Count the adverts for each title in the last thirty days and write the number down.
The count is where the work happens. A title with fewer than eight adverts in thirty days does not pay your rent, however interesting it reads. A title with forty or more tells you employers have budget and a settled idea of what the job is, and that is the title you want to test yourself against.