Perform human resources activities
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 16 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| 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 16 occupations that perform it.
- Support efforts to reduce substance abuse or other illegal activities in the workplace.
- Develop, administer, and evaluate applicant tests.
- Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
- Recruit, interview, or hire employees.
- Administer employee benefit plans.
- Recruit and hire staff, such as cooks and other kitchen workers.
- Observe and evaluate workers and work procedures to ensure quality standards and service, and complete disciplinary write-ups.
- Hire, train, and supervise food and beverage service staff.
- Recruit and hire staff members.
- Participate in the hiring, training, scheduling, or supervision of alteration workers.
- Manage funeral home operations, including the hiring, training, or supervision of embalmers, funeral attendants, or other staff.
- Perform clerical and administrative duties such as keeping records, paying bills, and hiring and supervising personnel.
- Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
- Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as hirings, evaluations, or promotions.
- Recommend measures for improving work procedures and worker performance to increase service quality and enhance job safety.
- Perform personnel actions, such as hiring and firing staff, providing employee orientation and training, and conducting supervisory activities, such as creating work schedules or organizing employee time sheets.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
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.
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
16 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Barbers
- Chefs and Head Cooks
- Childcare Workers
- Costume Attendants
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
- Human Resources Managers
- Human Resources Specialists
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Security Managers
- Spa Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Perform human resources activities”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Administer standardized physical or psychological tests | 7 |
| Administer compensation or benefits programs | 6 |
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.