Counsel workers about job and career-related issues.

“Counsel workers about job and career-related issues.” is a supplemental task performed by Industrial-Organizational Psychologists. Among the occupation's 25 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#23 most important). About 88% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

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.

• Counsel others about personal matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others

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.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.060% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 50% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.8 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 97% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Provide advice on best practices and implementation for selection. · importance 4.7
• Develop and implement employee selection or placement programs. · importance 4.6
• Develop interview techniques, rating scales, and psychological tests used to assess skills, abilities, and interests for the purpose of employee selection, placement, or promotion. · importance 4.5
• Analyze data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of workplace programs. · importance 4.5
• Observe and interview workers to obtain information about the physical, mental, and educational requirements of jobs, as well as information about aspects such as job satisfaction. · importance 4.3
• Analyze job requirements and content to establish criteria for classification, selection, training, and other related personnel functions. · importance 4.3
• Facilitate organizational development and change. · importance 4.3
• Advise management concerning personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices and their potential effects on organizational effectiveness and efficiency. · importance 4.2
• Conduct presentations on research findings for clients or at research meetings. · importance 4.2
• Coach senior executives and managers on leadership and performance. · importance 4.1
• Conduct individual assessments, including interpreting measures and providing feedback for selection, placement, or promotion. · importance 4.0
• Train clients to administer human resources functions, including testing, selection, and performance management. · importance 4.0
• Assess employee performance. · importance 4.0
• Identify training and development needs. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Industrial-Organizational Psychologists 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
• 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-task-7573,
  title  = {Counsel workers about job and career-related issues.},
  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/tasks/task-7573}
}