| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Keep track of leave time, such as vacation, personal, and sick leave, for employees. |
| Importance: 99 (%) | Description: Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations, to maintain and update payroll records. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Review time sheets, work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies. |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from time sheets and other records. |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Conduct verifications of employment. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Distribute and collect timecards each pay period. |
| Importance: 80 (%) | Description: Process paperwork for new employees and enter employee information into the payroll system. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Provide information to employees and managers on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Complete time sheets showing employees' arrival and departure times. |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process. |
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These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Human Resources Careers and Jobs careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Human Resources Careers and Jobs, so relevant Human Resources Careers and Jobs jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Human Resources Careers and Jobs Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Human Resources Careers and Jobs Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Human Resources Careers and Jobs careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 255 Human Resources Careers and Jobs Jobs.
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Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
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Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
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Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
42 Human Resources Careers and Jobs careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Human Resources Careers and Jobs-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Human Resources Careers and Jobs-Related Jobs |
47 Human Resources Careers and Jobs careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Human Resources Careers and Jobs-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Human Resources Careers and Jobs-Related Jobs |
48 Human Resources Careers and Jobs careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Human Resources Careers and Jobs-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Human Resources Careers and Jobs-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 255 specific Human Resources Careers and Jobs job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
Description: Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
137,300U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
119,700
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
-17,700 (-12.9%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
11,400
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Train employees on organizations' timekeeping systems. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Compile statistical reports, statements, and summaries related to pay and benefits accounts, and submit them to appropriate departments. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Complete, verify, and process forms and documentation for administration of benefits, such as pension plans, and unemployment and medical insurance. |
| Importance: 48 (%) | Description: Balance cash and payroll accounts. |
| Importance: 37 (%) | Description: Prepare and file payroll tax returns. |
| Importance: 36 (%) | Description: Coordinate special programs, such as United Way campaigns, that involve payroll deductions. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
| Importance: 80 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Calculate financial data. | |
| Check data for recording errors. | |
| Compile data or documentation. | |
| Coordinate operational activities. | |
| Distribute materials to employees or customers. | |
| Enter information into databases or software programs. | |
| Execute sales or other financial transactions. | |
| File documents or records. | |
| Maintain current knowledge related to work activities. | |
| Prepare documentation for contracts, transactions, or regulatory compliance. | |
| Prepare financial documents. | |
| Prepare research or technical reports. | |
| Provide information to coworkers. | |
| Reconcile records of sales or other financial transactions. | |
| Record personnel information. | |
| Train others in operational procedures. | |
| Verify employee information. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
| Importance: 80 (%) | Description: Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
| Importance: 63 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Calculate financial data. |
| Activity: Communicate with others about operational plans or activities. |
| Activity: Compile records, documentation, or other data. |
| Activity: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. |
| Activity: Distribute materials, supplies, or resources. |
| Activity: Evaluate the quality or accuracy of data. |
| Activity: Execute financial transactions. |
| Activity: Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise. |
| Activity: Maintain operational records. |
| Activity: Perform administrative or clerical activities. |
| Activity: Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permits. |
| Activity: Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets. |
| Activity: Present research or technical information. |
| Activity: Process digital or online data. |
| Activity: Reconcile financial data. |
| Activity: Train others on operational or work procedures. |
| Activity: Verify personal information. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
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Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed |
| Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job. |
| Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. |
| Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations. |
| These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 31.8 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 30.4 (%) | Level of Education: Some College Courses |
| Frequency of Attainment: 20.6 (%) | Level of Education: High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 17.3 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 49.9 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 41.2 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 8.2 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 0.7 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
Local Salary Information
Select a State (scroll and Select) :
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Certifications
| Certifications These are examples of certifications that may be important for this occupation. How can you begin exploring which certifications fit your goals and what steps you would need to take to earn them? |
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SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HCM Payroll with ERP 6.0 EHP7
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SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP SuccessFactors for Employee Central Payroll 1H/2022
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Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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Job Listings
| Job Listings and Similar Occupational Titles - scroll and click to identify common requirements, keywords, and skills in current job listings |
Related Careers to Consider
Step 4 of 4: Career-Specific Resources
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Videos
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Resumes
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Job Description
Here are resources that provide job descriptions, which are vital for resume and interview preparation.
Interviews
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Step-by-Step
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LinkedIn®
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