Train personnel on proper operational 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 | 25 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 25 occupations that perform it.
- Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
- Provide training and interpretation in the use of methods or procedures for observing and checking controls for geodetic and plane coordinates.
- Conduct educational programs that provide farmers or farm cooperative members with information that can help them improve agricultural productivity.
- Conduct training or in-services to educate clinicians and other personnel on proper use of equipment.
- Provide training and support to system designers and users.
- Supervise or train project team members, as necessary.
- Train users in details of system operation.
- Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Assist in training equipment operators or other staff on validation protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Train production personnel in new or existing methods.
- Conduct training sessions on new material products, applications, or manufacturing methods for customers and their employees.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel.
- Train personnel or clients on topics such as energy management.
- Provide consultation or training on topics such as mechatronics or automated control.
- Demonstrate miniaturized systems that contain components, such as microsensors, microactuators, or integrated electronic circuits, fabricated on silicon or silicon carbide wafers.
- Train operators, engineers, or other personnel.
- Train students to use drafting machines and to prepare schematic diagrams, block diagrams, control drawings, logic diagrams, integrated circuit drawings, or interconnection diagrams.
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
25 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Agricultural Engineers
- Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
- Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Computer Hardware Engineers
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Electrical and Electronics Drafters
- Electrical Engineers
- Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
- Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
- Environmental Engineers
- Firefighters
- Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists
- Geodetic Surveyors
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Materials Engineers
- Mechatronics Engineers
- Microsystems Engineers
- Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers
- Photonics Engineers
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Robotics Technicians
- Surveyors
- Validation Engineers
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.