Conduct employee training programs
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 30 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Training and Teaching Others (4.A.4.b.3) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 30 occupations that perform it.
- Perform personnel functions, such as selection, training, or evaluation.
- Train and direct workers engaged in developing and producing advertisements.
- Conduct classes to teach procedures to staff.
- Train subordinate security professionals or other organization members in security rules and procedures.
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions.
- Lead staff training and development in budgeting and financial management areas.
- Hire, train, evaluate, or discharge staff or resolve personnel grievances.
- Instruct staff in quality control and analytical procedures.
- Provide training to subordinate or new employees to improve biofuels plant safety or increase the production of biofuels.
- Interview and hire staff, and oversee staff training.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Plan and conduct new-employee orientations to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
- Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
- Conduct orientation sessions and arrange on-the-job training for new hires.
- Hire, supervise, and train support workers.
- Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff and recommend personnel actions for programs and services.
- Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
- Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Enterprise platforms
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
Step-by-step workflows that name this activity, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Others for managing, training and developing people
Who does this work
30 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Administrative Services Managers
- Advertising and Promotions Managers
- Biofuels Production Managers
- Clinical Research Coordinators
- Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Compliance Managers
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Facilities Managers
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Gambling Managers
- General and Operations Managers
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Lodging Managers
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Purchasing Managers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Security Managers
- Training and Development Managers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
- Treasurers and Controllers
- Wind Energy Operations Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Train others on operational or work procedures”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.