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Professionals · code 2424

Training and staff development professionals

Training and staff development professionals plan, develop, implement and evaluate training and development programmes to ensure management and staff acquire the skills and develop the competencies required by organizations to meet organizational objectives. Tasks include - (a) identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations; (b) setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes; (c) preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation; (d) designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programmes that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences; (e) liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programmes; (f) promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities; (g) monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables; (h) gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Staff development officer - Training officer - Workforce development specialist

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 330 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • business coach
  • corporate trainer
  • corporate training manager

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

59.3
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 40.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 40.7 = 59.3

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

19.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

6.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 16 · hand skill 0 · cramped spaces 3.2 · 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 19.3 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 60.5, while the average is 40.7. 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. 60.5

    Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems.

    Medium
  2. 48.5

    Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation

    Low
  3. 37.8

    Promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities

    Low
  4. 37

    Designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programmes that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences

    Low
  5. 36.5

    Setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes

    Low
  6. 35.3

    Liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programmes

    Low
  7. 35

    Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations

    Low
  8. 35

    Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables

    Low

8 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
76
AI does it for you
57

Helping wins by 19 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2233

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.3. This one is below that.