Intern Ready: Student Internship Skill Gap Analyzer

Internships give students practical industry experience, but many students do not know which skills a particular internship role expects, and at what depth. Role requirements are scattered across job portals, learning platforms and assessment tools, so students compare them manually, which is slow and confusing. This paper presents InternReady, a web-based skill-gap analyzer. A student creates a profile (name, branch, year), selects a target internship role, and rates each required skill on a four-level scale (0 Not Learned, 1 Beginner, 2 Intermediate, 3 Advanced). The system compares the self-rated levels with the role's required levels, classifies every skill as meeting the requirement, weak or missing, computes a readiness score, and generates an ordered improvement roadmap together with a downloadable report. The architecture has four layers: an HTML/CSS presentation layer, a Python application layer containing the analysis engine, and a MySQL data layer holding students, roles, skills and role requirements. This version of the paper specifies the methodology in full: the data model, the skill-level scale, the matching and gap-classification rules, the scoring formula, the roadmap-ordering rule and the test plan, and it includes the architecture, workflow and database diagrams together with screenshots of the working prototype. The readiness figures shown in the screenshots are sample outputs of the prototype; no measured accuracy or user-study results are claimed, and the planned tests are listed as planned.