Train personnel in technical or scientific procedures
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 | 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 18 occupations that perform it.
- Train staff on, and oversee the use of, information security standards, policies, and best practices.
- Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
- Maintain laboratory safety programs and train personnel in laboratory safety techniques.
- Provide information, knowledge, expertise, or training to government agencies at all levels to solve water or soil management problems or to assure coordination of resource protection activities.
- Educate healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention.
- Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restore habitats.
- Train technicians in the use of remote sensing technology.
- Hire and train recruiters and data collectors.
- Train clients to administer human resources functions, including testing, selection, and performance management.
- Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.
- Supervise or train agricultural technicians or farm laborers.
- Train newly hired laboratory personnel.
- Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.
- Instruct personnel in radiation safety procedures and demonstrate use of protective clothing and equipment.
- Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires, and maintaining recreational facilities.
- Train new technicians or other personnel on forensic science techniques.
- Train other analysts to perform laboratory procedures and assays.
- Teach fire investigation techniques to other firefighter 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
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
18 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Agricultural Technicians
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Chemical Technicians
- Conservation Scientists
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Epidemiologists
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators
- Food Science Technicians
- Forensic Science Technicians
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Geneticists
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Information Security Engineers
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Quality Control Analysts
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Survey Researchers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Train others on operational or work procedures”. 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.