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Rehabilitation Counselors
Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, aging, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Develop rehabilitation plans that fit clients' aptitudes, education levels, physical abilities, and career goals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Confer with clients to discuss their options and goals so that rehabilitation programs and plans for accessing needed services can be developed.Mostly human for now
- 03Prepare and maintain records and case files, including documentation, such as clients' personal and eligibility information, services provided, narratives of client contacts, or relevant correspondence.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Locate barriers to client employment, such as inaccessible work sites, inflexible schedules, or transportation problems, and work with clients to develop strategies for overcoming these barriers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Analyze information from interviews, educational and medical records, consultation with other professionals, and diagnostic evaluations to assess clients' abilities, needs, and eligibility for services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Monitor and record clients' progress to ensure that goals and objectives are met.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop and maintain relationships with community referral sources, such as schools or community groups.Mostly human for now
- 08Maintain close contact with clients during job training and placements to resolve problems and evaluate placement adequacy.Mostly human for now
- 09Arrange for physical, mental, academic, vocational, and other evaluations to obtain information for assessing clients' needs and developing rehabilitation plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Participate in job development and placement programs, contacting prospective employers, placing clients in jobs, and evaluating the success of placements.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
36%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 75% 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.
- Confer with clients to discuss their options and goals so that rehabilitation programs and plans for accessing needed services can be developed.
- Develop and maintain relationships with community referral sources, such as schools or community groups.
- Maintain close contact with clients during job training and placements to resolve problems and evaluate placement adequacy.