Skills Gap Analysis
Compare your current skills with a target AI-resistant career and get a prioritized learning path with portfolio projects.
Generated for: Retail buyer (5 years) targeting a demand planning analyst role, 6-month runway
Already have, and should lead with: category-level forecasting judgment, vendor lead-time realities, open-to-buy mechanics, and the seasonality intuition that takes years to acquire and that most analyst candidates arriving from a stats background do not have. Two of the five job postings you're targeting name domain knowledge explicitly.
Real gaps, in priority order. (1) SQL beyond SELECT — joins, window functions, CTEs. This is table-stakes and it's the fastest to close; four to six weeks at an hour a day. (2) Statistical forecasting vocabulary — you forecast by judgment and can't currently name what you're doing. Learn exponential smoothing, seasonality decomposition, and MAPE well enough to discuss tradeoffs; three weeks of reading, not a course. (3) A planning system on your resume (Anaplan, Kinaxis, o9) — you can't fake this, so target companies that list "or equivalent" and lean on your ERP experience.
Six-month plan: months 1–2 SQL daily plus one portfolio project rebuilding your own category's forecast from historical sell-through and scoring it against what actually happened; month 3 forecasting methods, applied to that same project so you can say which method beat your judgment and by how much; months 4–6 apply while continuing, since gap 3 doesn't close by studying. Skip: a full data-science bootcamp. It costs you the runway and the roles you're targeting don't ask for the back half of it.
Why this one works
- Starts with what already transfers, so the plan builds on an asset instead of reading as a list of deficiencies.
- Gaps are ranked by what blocks a hire, and each carries a real time estimate.
- It names what to skip — the most useful line in any learning plan with a fixed runway.
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