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Managers · code 1212

Human resource managers

Human resource managers plan, direct and coordinate policies concerning the personnel, industrial relations and occupational health and safety activities of an enterprise or organization, or of enterprises that provide human resource services to other enterprises and organizations. Tasks include - (a) planning, directing and coordinating the personnel and industrial relations activities, policies and practices of an enterprise or organization; (b) planning and organizing procedures for recruitment, training, promotion, transfer and dismissal of staff; (c) planning and organizing negotiations and procedures for determination of wage structures and level and for consultation with workers on conditions of employment; (d) overseeing safety, health and related programmes and activities; (e) establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources; (f) establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures; (g) overseeing the development and implementation of management information systems; (h) ensuring compliance with standards and legislation relating to employees’ rights, health and safety, equal opportunity and related concerns; (i) overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff for the entire enterprise or organization; (j) consulting with senior management and with managers of other departments; (k) representing the enterprise or organization in dealings with outside bodies. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Industrial relations manager - Personnel manager - Recruitment manager

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 281 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • human resources manager

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64.4
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 35.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 35.6 = 64.4

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

13.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

5.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 8.9 · hand skill 3.5 · cramped spaces 4.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 13.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 47.5, while the average is 35.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 47.5

    Overseeing the development and implementation of management information systems

    Low
  2. 38.5

    Consulting with senior management and with managers of other departments

    Low
  3. 37.5

    Establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources

    Low
  4. 37

    Representing the enterprise or organization in dealings with outside bodies.

    Low
  5. 36

    Planning, directing and coordinating the personnel and industrial relations activities, policies and practices of an enterprise or organization

    Low
  6. 36

    Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff for the entire enterprise or organization

    Low
  7. 35

    Planning and organizing procedures for recruitment, training, promotion, transfer and dismissal of staff

    Low
  8. 35

    Establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures

    Low
  9. 31.5

    Planning and organizing negotiations and procedures for determination of wage structures and level and for consultation with workers on conditions of employment

    Low
  10. 30.5

    Ensuring compliance with standards and legislation relating to employees rights, health and safety, equal opportunity and related concerns

    Low
  11. 27.5

    Overseeing safety, health and related programmes and activities

    Low

11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
66
AI does it for you
36

Helping wins by 30 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1323

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.9. This one is above that.