Stage 1 · Lesson 4 of 7
Marking your skill gaps honestly
Take the skills that kept coming up while for your . Mark each one as have, weak or missing. "Have" means you can point to evidence a reviewer could open: a project, a job, or a merged (a code change accepted into a shared project).
Fix the weak skills that appear most often first. Ideally, fix them inside a project you can show. That closes the gap and creates proof at the same time.
This step shapes the next stages. Your resume bullets draw on the "have" column, and your proof-of-work projects target the gaps.
Common trapchasing rare skills from a single posting, or marking something as "have" because you watched a course on it.
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