Demonstrate activity techniques or equipment use
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 | 12 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 12 occupations that perform it.
- Demonstrate use and care of equipment for tenant use.
- Demonstrate correct use of exercise equipment or performance of exercise routines.
- Participate in fire drills and demonstrations of fire fighting techniques.
- Demonstrate and sell hair care products and cosmetics.
- Demonstrate products to clients, and provide instruction in makeup application.
- Demonstrate how to clean and care for skin properly and recommend skin-care regimens.
- Teach skills, such as proper climbing methods, and demonstrate and advise on the use of equipment.
- Instruct novices in climbing techniques, mountaineering, and wilderness survival, and demonstrate use of hunting, fishing, and climbing equipment.
- Teach and demonstrate use of gymnastic and training equipment, such as trampolines and weights.
- Explain principles, techniques, and safety procedures to participants in recreational activities and demonstrate use of materials and equipment.
- Instruct patrons on how to use reference sources, card catalogs, and automated information systems.
- Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use or to analyze malfunctions.
- Teach individual and team sports to participants through instruction and demonstration, using knowledge of sports techniques and of participants' physical capabilities.
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
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
- Exercise Physiologists
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- Firefighters
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Recreation Workers
- Skincare Specialists
- Social and Human Service Assistants
- Tour Guides and Escorts
- Travel Guides
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Train others to use equipment or products”. 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.