NorthStar

Occupations/43-4161.00

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.

Certificate or two-year

Usually a certificate, vocational program, or associate degree — not a bachelor’s.

AI automation risk

77%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

47%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

79%

Higher automation risk

A day in this job

  • Mostly human

    Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.

  • Task

    Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.

  • Task

    Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.

The tasks we can read here lean on people, judgment, or hands-on work. The AI risk number is still this job’s rank against other occupations.

Core tasks

  1. 01Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
  2. 02Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.
  3. 03Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.
  4. 04Provide assistance in administering employee benefit programs and worker's compensation plans.
  5. 05Answer questions regarding examinations, eligibility, salaries, benefits, and other pertinent information.
  6. 06Prepare and set up for new employee orientations.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks4.36
  • Degree of automation2.55
  • Time sitting4.27
  • Originality (ability)2.50
  • Conflict situations3.76
  • Hands-on objects/tools2.44
  • Outdoors / weather1.06
  • Disease exposure1.54
  • Decision freedom3.98

Top abilities

  • Oral Expression4.00
  • Oral Comprehension4.00
  • Written Comprehension3.88
  • Written Expression3.75
  • Speech Clarity3.75
  • Near Vision3.62
  • Speech Recognition3.50
  • Problem Sensitivity3.38

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension4.00
  • Active Listening4.00
  • Writing3.50
  • Speaking3.75
  • Mathematics2.00
  • Science1.12
  • Critical Thinking3.38
  • Active Learning3.00
  • Learning Strategies2.50
  • Monitoring3.38

CIP matches

52.0401Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General52.0407Business/Office Automation/Technology/Data Entry52.1001Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General52.1099Human Resources Management and Services, Other

Schools offering related programs

12 of 55 shown

Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.

InstitutionProgramTuitionAdmitGrad 6-yrEarnings

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg, VA · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$15,20057%86%

1 yr $91,744

2 yr $91,448

Master's · CIP 52.10

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Amherst, MA · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$17,40064%83%

1 yr $90,856

2 yr —

Master's · CIP 52.10

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$17,50045%85%

1 yr $89,424

2 yr $93,033

Master's · CIP 52.10

Georgetown University

Washington, DC · Private nonprofit

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$65,40012%95%

1 yr $82,756

2 yr $88,638

Master's · CIP 52.10

New York University

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$60,40012%88%

1 yr $81,031

2 yr $81,702

Master's · CIP 52.10

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$14,60065%73%

1 yr $71,015

2 yr $64,990

Master's · CIP 52.10

Lincoln College of Technology-Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN · Private for-profit

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$18,600100%64%

1 yr $70,680

2 yr —

Master's · CIP 52.10

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$17,70018%93%

1 yr $60,072

2 yr $67,101

Bachelor's · CIP 52.10

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Seattle, WA · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$12,60048%84%

1 yr $59,124

2 yr $50,563

Bachelor's · CIP 52.10

City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

Chicago, IL · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$4,600100%27%

1 yr $58,673

2 yr $76,995

Bachelor's · CIP 52.10

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA · Public

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

52.1001

$8,20077%71%

1 yr $58,221

2 yr $51,106

Bachelor's · CIP 52.10

Northeastern University

Boston, MA · Private nonprofit

Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science, General

52.0401

$63,2007%91%

1 yr $57,318

2 yr $57,995

Master's · CIP 52.04