How far are you from the role you want next?
1 · Choose your target role
Pick the role you want next, not the one you hold today.
Data Scientist — Turns messy organisational data into decisions people actually act on.
2 · Rate yourself honestly
One is “never done it”; five is “others come to me for this”. Flattering yourself here only produces a flattering, useless result.
Statistics & experiments
Required: level 5
Designing and reading tests without fooling yourself
SQL & data modelling
Required: level 4
Getting to a trustworthy table before any modelling starts
Python for analysis
Required: level 5
pandas, notebooks, reproducible analysis
Machine learning
Required: level 4
Supervised methods, validation, honest error analysis
Data storytelling
Required: level 4
Explaining a result to someone who will not read the code
Business framing
Required: level 3
Turning a vague ask into a measurable question
MLOps fundamentals
Required: level 3
Versioning, monitoring, and life after the notebook
1 · Never done it3 · Working5 · Expert
3 · Your readiness
Credited level divided by required level, across every skill.
75%
Close — two or three gaps stand between you and the role
4 · Your three biggest gaps
5 skills sit below the required level. These are the ones to close first.
- 1
Statistics & experiments
2 levels short
You: level 3 · Required: level 5 — Designing and reading tests without fooling yourself
- 2
Python for analysis
2 levels short
You: level 3 · Required: level 5 — pandas, notebooks, reproducible analysis
- 3
SQL & data modelling
1 level short
You: level 3 · Required: level 4 — Getting to a trustworthy table before any modelling starts
Already at or above the bar
5 · Close the gap
Programmes built for data scientists
Filtered on the domain behind this role. Check the curriculum against your three gaps above before you enquire — a programme that repeats what you already know is an expensive way to feel productive.
iAdmit
Global Online Certification Course on Reinventing Business Operations wit…
Data Science & Analytics · Advanced
Programme fee
₹1.05 L+ GST
2,190 reviews
IIM Ahmedabad
Epost Graduate Diploma in Advanced Business Analytics
Data Science & Analytics · Senior Professional
Programme fee
₹3.20 L+ GST
1,162 reviews
Rotman × IITM Pravartak
Advanced Data Science Certificate Program
Data Science & Analytics · Senior Professional
Programme fee
₹2.60 L+ GST
1,556 reviews
How it works
What is behind the score
No assessment, no proctoring, no data collection — this is a structured self-audit against a published set of levels, and it is only as good as your honesty.
The required levels are the honest ones
Each role carries six to eight skills, scored 1–5, set at what a competent and hireable candidate is normally expected to bring — not at what the best person in the country can do. A 5 is reserved for the two or three skills the role genuinely lives or dies by.
Readiness is credited, never inflated
For every skill we credit the lower of your level and the required level, then divide the total by the sum of required levels. Rating yourself a 5 where a 3 is asked for does not lift your score — surplus in one skill cannot paper over a shortfall in another.
The radar shows shape, not just size
The dashed violet outline is the role. The solid indigo shape is you. A profile that is uniformly close to the outline reads very differently to one that spikes on two axes and collapses on the rest — the second is usually the harder interview.
Recommendations follow the domain
Each role maps to one of the domains in the catalogue, and the programmes shown are drawn from it. They are a starting shortlist, not a prescription: read the curriculum against your three gaps before enquiring.
Reading the levels consistently
- Level 1 — Never done it
- You understand the words. You have not shipped anything with them.
- Level 2 — Aware
- You have contributed under supervision, or studied it without applying it.
- Level 3 — Working
- You do this unsupervised on ordinary problems, and you know where you are weak.
- Level 4 — Strong
- You handle unfamiliar and ambiguous cases, and you review other people's work.
- Level 5 — Expert
- Colleagues come to you. You set the standard for how it is done here.
Assumptions and limits
- The role profiles are composites drawn from how these roles are typically scoped in Indian organisations. A specific employer will weight them differently, and a startup will weight them very differently to a bank.
- Skills are treated as independent and equally weighted by their required level. In reality some gaps block a hire outright while others are trained on the job.
- Nothing here accounts for domain experience, sector knowledge, references or the quality of your network — all of which move hiring decisions at least as much as skills do.
- Readiness is not a probability of being hired. It is a description of the distance between two profiles, one of which you wrote yourself.
Next step
Turn three gaps into one decision
A gap list is not a plan. A counsellor can tell you which of your three gaps a given cohort genuinely closes, which you are better off closing at work, and whether a certification or a full degree is the right instrument.
Sequence the gaps
Closing the gap that unlocks the others first is usually cheaper than closing all three at once.
Match to curriculum
We will map your gaps against actual module lists, not marketing copy.
Be told when not to enrol
If your gap is experience rather than knowledge, a programme is the wrong purchase and we will say so.
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