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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3333

Employment agents and contractors

Employment agents and contractors match jobseekers with vacancies, find workers for employers and contract labour for particular projects at the request of enterprises and other organizations including government and other institutions, or find places for jobseekers for a commission. Tasks include - (a) matching jobseekers with vacancies; (b) finding workers for vacant posts against a commission from the employer or worker; (c) discussing with employers the skills and other characteristics required of the workers to be employed or contracted; (d) finding workers with appropriate skills, and undertaking the necessary formalities according to national or international regulations and requirements; (e) ensuring that the employment contracts meet legal requirements and signing them; (f) advising on training schemes. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Employment agent - Job placement officer - Labour contractor Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Careers adviser - 2423 - Occupational analyst - 2423 - Literary agent - 3339 - Musical performance agent - 3339 - Sports agent - 3339 - Theatrical agent - 3339

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 321 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • employment agent

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

61
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 39 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 39 = 61

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

38.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

15.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 21.4 · hand skill 18.7 · cramped spaces 5.8 · 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 38.3 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 56, while the average is 39. 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. 56

    Matching jobseekers with vacancies

    Medium
  2. 41

    Advising on training schemes.

    Low
  3. 36

    Finding workers for vacant posts against a commission from the employer or worker

    Low
  4. 34.5

    Ensuring that the employment contracts meet legal requirements and signing them

    Low
  5. 33.5

    Finding workers with appropriate skills, and undertaking the necessary formalities according to national or international regulations and requirements

    Low
  6. 33

    Discussing with employers the skills and other characteristics required of the workers to be employed or contracted

    Low

6 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
68
AI does it for you
51

Helping wins by 17 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

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.4. This one is below that.