What do I need to use Career Ladder Map?

Current level → target level; Your current evidence; Constraints.

Is Career Ladder Map free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Career Ladder Map

Q: How do I know the Career Ladder Map output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Both levels are mapped against the actual rubric, not a generic guess; Your current status is honest (🟢/🟡/🔴), not aspirational; Each gap has a **specific project** that generates evidence — not "get better at X"; The plan names how you'll get the opportunity, not just the goal.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-24 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-career

Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap. Use when asked to map a career ladder, find the gap to the next level, build a development/growth plan, or figure out what to work on to get promoted. Produces a level-gap map — current vs. target competencies side by side, the specific gaps, and a prioritised 1–2 quarter plan of evidence-generating projects to close them.

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What to give it

▸Current level → target level — , and the ladder/rubric for both (the competencies each expects).

▸Your current evidence — what you've demonstrated and where (a [`brag-doc`](../brag-doc/SKILL.md) helps).

▸Constraints — your role's scope, time, and what opportunities are realistically available.

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Both levels are mapped against the actual rubric, not a generic guess

✓Your current status is honest (🟢/🟡/🔴), not aspirational

✓Each gap has a **specific project** that generates evidence — not "get better at X"

✓The plan names how you'll get the opportunity, not just the goal

✓It's sequenced (this quarter vs. next), and includes a manager-calibration step

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not produce a flattering self-assessment — an honest 🔴 you can fix beats a 🟢 the committee disagrees with

Do not list goals without the project that proves them — "show more leadership" isn't a plan

Do not try to close every gap at once — sequence by signal; depth beats breadth

Do not skip manager calibration — closing gaps against a bar your manager doesn't share leads to a surprise "not yet"

Do not confuse activity with evidence — the project has to produce a demonstrable, level-appropriate outcome

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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