Supervise administrative staff and provide training and orientation to new staff.

“Supervise administrative staff and provide training and orientation to new staff.” is a task performed by Administrative Services Managers. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#18 most important).

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Supervise personnel activities. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Plan, administer, and control budgets for contracts, equipment, and supplies. · importance 4.1
• Hire and terminate clerical and administrative personnel. · importance 4.0
• Direct or coordinate the supportive services department of a business, agency, or organization. · importance 3.9
• Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency. · importance 3.7
• Set goals and deadlines for the department. · importance 3.7
• Acquire, distribute and store supplies. · importance 3.4
• Analyze internal processes and recommend and implement procedural or policy changes to improve operations, such as supply changes or the disposal of records. · importance 3.3
• Conduct classes to teach procedures to staff. · importance 3.2
• Communicate with and provide guidance for external vendors and service providers to ensure the organization, department, or work unit's business needs are met.
• Develop operational standards and procedures for the work unit or department.
• Establish work procedures or schedules to organize the daily work of administrative staff.
• Learn to operate new office technologies as they are developed and implemented.
• Manage paper or electronic filing systems by recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records or correspondence.
• Meet with other departmental leaders to establish organizational goals, strategic plans, and objectives, as well as make decisions about personnel, resources, and space or equipment needs.

See all tasks on the Administrative Services Managers page.

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Supervise administrative staff and provide training and orientation to new staff.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-21271}
}