SkillGap: Building an AI-Powered Career Assistant

SkillGap: Building an AI-Powered Career Assistant Jing Ng & Liuyi · Spring 2026 Introduction: The Vision of SkillGap The Problem Job descriptions are hard to read. They are long, full of buzzwords, and it is genuinely difficult to know if you qualify. Most people either talk themselves out of jobs they could get, or apply to roles they are not ready for. There is no quick, honest way to compare your skills to what a job actually needs. That is the problem we wanted to solve. The Solution SkillGap does the comparison for you. Paste a job description into the app. It checks it against your saved skill profile and gives you a match score, a breakdown of your skills into three groups (Have / Missing / Bonus), and a personalized AI learning roadmap. You get a clear, actionable plan instead of a guess. As you learn and update your profile, your results improve too. A Two-Person, Two-Tier Approach We divided the work so both of us could build at the same time without conflicts. Jing built the