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CAREERMASH · PARENTS EVENING HANDOUT · MEASURED AUGUST 2026

What the numbers on your child's card mean

Careermash measures 1,840 UK careersagainst AI, and shows every student the same three numbers on every card. Hand this sheet to a family at parents' evening: one page, plain English, nothing to log in to check for themselves at whatcareer.net/en/yellow.

The exposure score, 0 to 100

The number on the card is the share of that job's day-to-day tasks AI is already used for, measured today. A higher number means more of today's tasks are already touched by AI tools; it does not mean the job is disappearing. It means the job is changing, and the parts a person is paid for are shifting.

The door, grade A to E

“The door” is how hard a career is to get into: grade A is easiest, grade E is hardest. Cards show the door today and a published 20-year forecast alongside it. A closing door rewards starting sooner; an opening one gives more time to decide.

The moat

Some careers carry a “moat”: something structural that protects the work from software. Cards name three kinds: hands-on work software cannot do alone, legal accountability the law requires a person for, and people wanting a real person for the job. When a career has not yet been checked for a moat, the card says so plainly instead of guessing.

Where the numbers come from

Exposure scores blend published AI-usage research (Anthropic and OpenAI, 2026) with our own UK review of moats, robotics and scientific developments; door grades come from OpenAI's published “The AI Jobs Transition Framework” (2026, CC BY 4.0). Every figure has a named source on the card itself, and every change to a claim is recorded permanently in that career's public ledger.

Five conversation starters for tonight

  • What career is on their card right now, and what actually drew them to it: the subject, a person they admire, or the day-to-day work?
  • What does the card say about how exposed that career is to AI today, and does that match what they expected before they looked?
  • Which moat protects it: hands-on work, legal accountability, or people wanting a real person, or is it not yet classified?
  • What would a realistic first step this year look like: a subject choice, an open evening, a week of work experience?
  • Who do they know, or could find, who already does this job, and could they talk to them directly?

Full cards, free, no login: whatcareer.net/en/yellow. This sheet regenerates from live data; reprint each term rather than filing it.