Role Teardown and Gap Map

Four weeks in, you hand over the first third of your Dossier and find out whether the floor you set in week 1 held once somebody else read it.

The facts#

• Submit Dossier §§1–4 as one PDF or one shared document, through the course submission point.
• Due Friday 19 March 2027, 5:00 pm (end of week 4).
• Worth 20% of the course.
• Marked against the four weighted criteria at the foot of this page.

What goes in#

Four numbered sections, in this order.

1. Baseline Inventory (§1). Every claim you currently make about yourself, each one paired with the evidence you could put in front of a stranger inside ninety seconds. Claims with no evidence stay in, marked as such. An inventory with nothing unevidenced in it is not an honest inventory, it is a second CV.
2. Three target advertisements (§2). Real, current, and for roles you would actually take. Screenshot or full text, with the source and the date you captured it.
3. Annotated teardown (§3). One of those three ads, pulled apart into the four columns from week 2: legal boilerplate, the wishlist nobody expects met, the work you would actually do on a Tuesday, and the accidental confession about what went wrong in the last hire. Every line of the ad lands in exactly one column, and you say why.
4. Gap Map (§4). Every distance between the baseline and the target, each tiered: closeable by week 12, closeable in a year, or not closeable and therefore something you will say out loud in the room.

Where it comes from#

Nothing here is written the night before. §1 and §2 come out of the week-1 self-audit clinic, §3 out of the week-2 teardown, §4 out of the week-3 blind review, and the week-4 claims tribunal is your last chance to have peers strike an unevidenced claim before a marker does it for you.

What separates a strong submission#

The teardown is where most of the accuracy marks sit, and the gap map is where most of the marks sit full stop — 40 of them. A gap map that says “I need more experience” earns very little. A gap map that says “I have never deployed anything other people depended on, which is tier two, and here is the specific thing I am doing about it by week 12” earns most of the 40. The specific version is harder to write and easier to respect.

Legibility is only worth 10, but it is the 10 you lose by accident. Someone who has never met you reads this document without you narrating it. Number your sections. Label your columns. Date your evidence.

If you are behind#

Talk to Margot Tse before the due date rather than after it. Extensions, special consideration and the late penalty are all set out on the policies page, and none of them are worse than silence.

Next in the ladder: A2 — Performance Materials, which is fitted to whichever target you tear down here.