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Professionals · code 2423

Personnel and careers professionals

Personnel and careers professionals provide professional business services related to personnel policies such as employee recruitment or development, occupational analysis and vocational guidance. Tasks include - (a) advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy; (b) studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained; (c) preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems; (d) advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupational analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance; (e) studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Careers adviser - Human resource expert - Job analyst - Outplacement expert - Occupational analyst - Personnel specialist - Recruitment officer - Vocational guidance counsellor

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 354 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • occupational analyst
  • labour relations officer
  • recruitment consultant
  • human resources officer
  • employment and vocational integration consultant
  • career guidance advisor
  • public employment service manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

55.2
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 44.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 44.8 = 55.2

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

14.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 4 US jobs

5.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 7.2 · hand skill 4 · cramped spaces 5 · 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 14.4 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 53, while the average is 44.8. 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. 53

    Studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained

    Medium
  2. 50.5

    Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems

    Medium
  3. 43

    Studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable.

    Low
  4. 39

    Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy

    Low
  5. 38.5

    Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupational analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance

    Low

5 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.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
67.5
AI does it for you
44

Helping wins by 23.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2231, 2721

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.