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Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
Apply principles of psychology to human resources, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee testing and selection, training, and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to organize the work setting to improve worker productivity.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide advice on best practices and implementation for selection.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Develop and implement employee selection or placement programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Analyze data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of workplace programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Develop interview techniques, rating scales, and psychological tests used to assess skills, abilities, and interests for the purpose of employee selection, placement, or promotion.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Observe 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.Mostly human for now
- 06Facilitate organizational development and change.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Analyze job requirements and content to establish criteria for classification, selection, training, and other related personnel functions.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Advise management concerning personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices and their potential effects on organizational effectiveness and efficiency.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Conduct presentations on research findings for clients or at research meetings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Coach senior executives and managers on leadership and performance.Mostly human for now
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 loss16%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
49%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 82% 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
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.
- 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.
- Coach senior executives and managers on leadership and performance.