Train others in computer interface or software 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 | 15 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 15 occupations that perform it.
- Train staff and users to work with computer systems and programs.
- Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
- Train users and promote security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency.
- Participate in staffing decisions and direct training of subordinates.
- Train users in procedures related to network applications software or related systems.
- Develop training materials and procedures, or train users in the proper use of hardware or software.
- Train users and answer questions.
- Train people in computer system use.
- Train subordinates in programming and program coding.
- Provide training or technical assistance in Web site implementation or use.
- Prepare training materials for, or make presentations to, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users.
- Train system users in system operation or maintenance.
- Teach graduate or continuing education courses or seminars in biostatistics.
- Train staff on technical procedures or software program usage.
- Train users on the use and function of computer programs.
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
15 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Biostatisticians
- Clinical Data Managers
- Computer and Information Research Scientists
- Computer Network Support Specialists
- Computer Programmers
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Computer User Support Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians
- Health Informatics Specialists
- Information Security Analysts
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators
- Web Administrators
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.