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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3423

Fitness and recreation instructors and program leaders

Fitness and recreation instructors and programme leaders lead, guide and instruct groups and individuals in recreational, fitness or outdoor adventure activities. Tasks include - (a) planning and carrying out recreational and fitness activities; (b) monitoring recreational, sports or fitness activities to ensure safety and provide emergency or first aid assistance when required; (c) evaluating and monitoring clients’ abilities and fitness and recommending activities; (d) demonstrating and teaching body movements, concepts and skills used in fitness routines and recreational activities; (e) instructing in the use of equipment; (f) explaining and enforcing safety procedures, rules and regulations. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Aerobics instructor - Fitness instructor - Horse riding instructor - Outdoor adventure guide - Personal trainer - Sailing instructor - Underwater diving instructor Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Ski instructor - 3422 - Swimming instructor - 3422

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 193 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • fitness instructor
  • mountain guide
  • horse riding instructor
  • activity leader
  • vessel steering instructor

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

75.4
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 24.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 24.6 = 75.4

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

41
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 6 US jobs

27.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 31 · hand skill 32.6 · cramped spaces 18.1 · 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 41 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 32.5, while the average is 24.6. 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. 32.5

    Instructing in the use of equipment

    Low
  2. 28.5

    Planning and carrying out recreational and fitness activities

    Low
  3. 26

    Evaluating and monitoring clients’ abilities and fitness and recommending activities

    Low
  4. 24

    Demonstrating and teaching body movements, concepts and skills used in fitness routines and recreational activities

    Very Low
  5. 24

    Explaining and enforcing safety procedures, rules and regulations.

    Very Low
  6. 12.5

    Monitoring recreational, sports or fitness activities to ensure safety and provide emergency or first aid assistance when required

    Very 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.

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

AI helps you
60.7
AI does it for you
32.3

Helping wins by 28.4 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4521, 4522, 4523

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.3. This one is above that.