Free · Capacity · the first finger
Before anyone fixes your CV — can you do the job?
The Capacity Audit answers one question and refuses to answer any other: can you perform the work you want to be hired to do, at a basic employable standard? It does not score your CV, your job search, your eligibility or your interviewing. Those come after, and only after.
Ten questions about the work itself, scored out of ten, with a question-by-question action plan and a PDF report you can keep. Everything runs on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and no email is asked for.
The audit
Ten questions about the work itself.
Answer honestly. Nobody is watching, nothing is recorded, and a flattering score buys you nothing — it only sends you to spend money on the wrong repair.
The standard
What ERJ means by capacity.
Capacity is the minimum functional ability required to perform the ordinary responsibilities of a target role, using the basic tools of that profession, with reasonable independence and at an acceptable professional standard.
You do not have to be exceptional
Not ten years of experience. Not every tool in the profession. Not readiness for a senior role. The threshold is only this: there is something here that ERJ can position and take to market.
Five dimensions, two points each
Functional knowledge, core task execution, tools and systems, professional judgement, and applied evidence. Two questions each, every answer worth nought, one or two — because yes-or-no lets people overestimate themselves.
One task you cannot score zero on
Every role family has a central task: reconciling the account, writing the code, producing the copy, resolving the customer. A zero there fails the audit whatever the total says. Six out of ten while unable to do the central work is the one result this instrument must never produce.
What this scan will never score
Capacity is one finger, not the whole hand.
No point is awarded or deducted here for CV quality, LinkedIn, interview performance, how many applications you have sent, whether you can find remote roles, job-board knowledge, salary negotiation, location eligibility or ATS formatting. Those are later problems and they have their own checkpoints.
A brilliant accountant with a terrible CV should score Capacity 9/10 and Representation: failing. That is exactly what we want, because it sends them to the repair that would actually change their month.
The earliest-failure rule
Fix the earliest credible failure first.
Diagnose from left to right. A confirmed failure at an earlier finger must be addressed before a later one becomes commercially meaningful.
- A person who cannot perform the workdoes not need application optimisation.
- A person who cannot access suitable jobscannot yet know whether their CV is failing.
- A person whose representation stops employers replyingcannot yet diagnose interview conversion.
- Which is why this page existsso that the diagnosis starts where the search actually breaks, instead of starting everyone at the same place and selling them the same thing.
This also means we will tell you not to buy. If your capacity is not there yet, no ERJ product is the right purchase this month, and the audit says so in plain words rather than routing you to a payment page.
How far this score goes
A self-scan is the first level, not the last.
Self scan
Ten weighted questions, immediate result. It is only as honest as your answers, which is why the questions describe behaviour rather than asking whether you are good at something.
Evidence check
You send a sample, a project, a credential or a description of work you actually produced, and we assess the claim rather than the self-report. Ask on WhatsApp.
Practical capacity audit
A short field-specific task or scenario, scored by ERJ. The difference between “the person said they know Excel” and a verified capacity result.
What happens to your answers
Nothing leaves your device.
The audit is a small script running in your browser. Your answers are never sent to us, never stored, and disappear when you close this tab. There is no email field, no sign-up and no follow-up sequence. If you want a human to look at your result, you have to message us yourself.