Hire personnel
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 | 27 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Staffing Organizational Units (4.A.4.c.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 27 occupations that perform it.
- Perform personnel functions, such as selection, training, or evaluation.
- Appoint nominees to leadership posts, or approve such appointments.
- Hire and terminate clerical and administrative personnel.
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions.
- Hire or evaluate staff.
- Hire, train, evaluate, or discharge staff or resolve personnel grievances.
- Interview and hire staff, and oversee staff training.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview, and select applicants.
- Hire, supervise, and train support workers.
- Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
- Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
- Interview and hire workers.
- Interview and hire associates to fill staff vacancies.
- Interview and hire applicants.
- Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel.
- Hire, supervise, or evaluate engineers, technicians, researchers, or other staff.
- Hire and train employees, and evaluate their performance.
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
27 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Administrative Services Managers
- Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
- Funeral Home Managers
- Gambling Managers
- General and Operations Managers
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Investment Fund Managers
- Legislators
- Lodging Managers
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Purchasing Managers
- Social and Community Service Managers
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Perform recruiting or hiring activities”. 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.