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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3311

Securities and finance dealers and brokers

Securities and finance dealers and brokers buy and sell securities, stocks, bonds and other financial instruments, and deal on the foreign exchange, on spot, or on futures markets, on behalf of their own company or for customers on a commission basis. They recommend transactions to clients or senior management. Tasks include - (a) obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made; (b) analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange; (c) informing prospective customers about market conditions and prospects; (d) advising on and participating in the negotiation of terms for, and organization of, loans and placement of stocks and bonds in the financial market to raise capital for customers; (e) recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Foreign exchange broker - Foreign exchange dealer - Securities broker - Stocks and shares broker Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Bond analyst - 2413 - Commodities broker - 3324 - Commodity futures dealer - 3324 - Securities clerk - 4312

The ILO’s highest group: nearly every task is affected. It ranks 423 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • financial trader
  • asset manager
  • financial broker

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

36.9
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 4

AI could take on 63.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 63.1 = 36.9

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

23.7
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

11
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 16.1 · hand skill 6.2 · cramped spaces 10.8 · 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 23.7 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 66, while the average is 63.1. 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. 66

    Recording and transmitting buy and sell orders for securities, stocks, bonds or other financial instruments and for foreign exchange for future or immediate delivery.

    Medium
  2. 65.3

    Analysing market trends for securities, bonds, stocks and other financial instruments, including foreign exchange

    Medium
  3. 64.8

    Informing prospective customers about market conditions and prospects

    Medium
  4. 63

    Obtaining information about the financial circumstances of customers and companies in which investments may be made

    Medium
  5. 56.7

    Advising on and participating in the negotiation of terms for, and organization of, loans and placement of stocks and bonds in the financial market to raise capital for customers

    Medium

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
76
AI does it for you
58

Helping wins by 18 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2221, 2222

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.7. This one is below that.