Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

Compile and keep personnel records.

Sector: Government
Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
O*NET code: 43-4161.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

central to the job — rated 92/100 for importance.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

central to the job — rated 91/100 for importance.
Working with Computers

central to the job — rated 91/100 for importance.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

central to the job — rated 89/100 for importance.
Processing Information

central to the job — rated 87/100 for importance.
Getting Information

central to the job — rated 86/100 for importance.

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.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Active Listening

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Reading Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Writing

Needed at a solid working level (52/100), and rated 63/100 for importance.
Critical Thinking

Needed at a solid working level (52/100), and rated 60/100 for importance.

Knowledge

Personnel and Human Resources

Needed at a high level (64/100), and rated 85/100 for importance.
Administrative

Needed at expert level (83/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Customer and Personal Service

Needed at a high level (70/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Administration and Management

Needed at a solid working level (48/100), and rated 62/100 for importance.

Abilities

Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Written Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Written Expression

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.

Experience

One to two years of related experience is typical.

Training

Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”
Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
Rules and standards are checkable and someone checks them.From “Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards”

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz: Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles: Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only: "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible: You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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