Recruit 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 | 18 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 18 occupations that perform it.
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions.
- Recruit staff members.
- Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview, and select applicants.
- Secure third-party verification from sources, such as Leadership in Energy Efficient Design (LEED), to ensure responsible design and building activities or to achieve favorable LEED ratings for building projects.
- Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff and recommend personnel actions for programs and services.
- Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
- Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
- Assess staffing needs and recruit staff, using methods such as newspaper advertisements or attendance at job fairs.
- Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel.
- Recruit personnel or oversee the development or maintenance of staff competence.
- Recruit, interview, and hire or sign up volunteers and staff.
- Recruit or select wind operations employees, contractors, or subcontractors.
- Recruit and schedule research participants.
- Identify and recruit potential volunteer workers.
- Recruit and hire new faculty.
- Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.
- Recruit or hire firefighting personnel.
- Recruit, interview, and hire security 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
18 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Coaches and Scouts
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Construction Managers
- Directors, Religious Activities and Education
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Financial Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Food Service Managers
- Human Resources Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Natural Sciences Managers
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Social and Community Service Managers
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Wind Energy Operations 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.