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Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.Mostly human for now
- 04Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.No rating yet
- 05Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.Mostly human for now
- 07Refer students to outside counseling services.No rating yet
- 08Refer students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Provide students with information on topics such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss12%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
29%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 93% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 32% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
- Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.