A skill gap is a skill the role asks for that your profile does not evidence. The analysis lists them, ordered by how much the role appears to care.
Evidenced, not merely claimed
The analysis distinguishes three states, and the difference is the whole point:
- Verified — the platform has seen you demonstrate it in an interview or assessment.
- Self-declared — it is on your profile because you put it there.
- Absent — nothing in your profile mentions it.
A gap is anything not in the first two. A role wanting a skill you have declared but never demonstrated is a weaker gap than one wanting something absent entirely, and the analysis says which is which rather than lumping them together.
Reading the output
Each gap carries how central it is to the role. A missing "nice to have" and a missing mandatory requirement are not the same finding, and treating them the same is the fastest way to spend a month on the wrong thing.
What to do with it
Three honest options, in the order most people should consider them:
- You have it and never said so. Add it to your Job Profile with real evidence — a project, a role, a certification. This is the commonest case by a wide margin.
- You nearly have it. Something adjacent counts for more than nothing. Say what you have actually done and let the interview explore the distance.
- You do not have it. Then it is a genuine gap, and the useful move is learning it or choosing roles that do not need it — not wording around it.