Advise others on career or personal development.

Advise others on career or personal development. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Advise others on educational or vocational matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 2 (25%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.003% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities and policies and students' behavioral or learning problems. · Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues. · Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems. · Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions. · Education Administrators, Postsecondary · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Mentor new faculty members. · Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.5 · no direct exposure
• Mentor new faculty. · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.2 · no direct exposure
• Mentor new faculty. · Business Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.1 · no direct exposure
• Provide terminated employees with outplacement or relocation assistance. · Human Resources Managers · importance 2.2 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
• Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
• Education Administrators, Postsecondary
• Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
• Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Business Teachers, Postsecondary
• Human Resources Managers

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-advise-others-on-career-or-personal-development,
  title  = {Advise others on career or personal development.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/advise-others-on-career-or-personal-development}
}