Other vocational
and industrial trainers
Other vocational and industrial trainers provide instruction in manual, manipulative and other vocational skills and advise on, plan and organise vocational instruction within industrial, commercial and other establishments.
- Employees (UK)
- 125k
- Median annual pay
- £33,236
- Exposure score ?
- 1.1/10 Minimal 10.0/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 10.0/10 with-tools reading, strict is 1.1/10
- Wage exposure
- £457m £4.15bn
Higher exposure than 59% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgement, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where the work starts. Switch to With tools to see what AI plus the right context can take on.
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Present information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
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Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
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Evaluate modes of training delivery, such as in-person or virtual, to optimize training effectiveness, training costs, or environmental impacts.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Present information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
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Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
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Evaluate modes of training delivery, such as in-person or virtual, to optimize training effectiveness, training costs, or environmental impacts.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Training and Development Specialists" (13-1151.00).
What AI can already do
2 of 20 tasks, unaided
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Evaluate training materials prepared by instructors, such as outlines, text, or handouts.
What still needs a person
18 of 20 tasks
Present information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
Evaluate modes of training delivery, such as in-person or virtual, to optimize training effectiveness, training costs, or environmental impacts.
Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with employees, focus groups, or consultation with managers, instructors, or customer representatives.
Monitor, evaluate, or record training activities or program effectiveness.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for employees or customers.
Develop alternative training methods if expected improvements are not seen.
Monitor training costs and prepare budget reports to justify expenditures.
Devise programs to develop executive potential among employees in lower-level positions.
Keep up with developments in area of expertise by reading current journals, books, or magazine articles.
Attend meetings or seminars to obtain information for use in training programs or to inform management of training program status.
Coordinate recruitment and placement of training program participants.
Select and assign instructors to conduct training.
Negotiate contracts with clients for desired training outcomes, fees, or expenses.
Supervise, evaluate, or refer instructors to skill development classes.
Schedule classes based on availability of classrooms, equipment, or instructors.
Refer trainees to employer relations representatives, to locations offering job placement assistance, or to appropriate social services agencies, if warranted.
Develop or implement training programs related to efficiency, recycling, or other issues with environmental impacts.
Tasks via O*NET "Training and Development Specialists" (13-1151.00).
What AI can already do
20 of 20 tasks, with tools
Present information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
Evaluate modes of training delivery, such as in-person or virtual, to optimize training effectiveness, training costs, or environmental impacts.
Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with employees, focus groups, or consultation with managers, instructors, or customer representatives.
Monitor, evaluate, or record training activities or program effectiveness.
Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for employees or customers.
Develop alternative training methods if expected improvements are not seen.
Evaluate training materials prepared by instructors, such as outlines, text, or handouts.
Monitor training costs and prepare budget reports to justify expenditures.
Devise programs to develop executive potential among employees in lower-level positions.
Keep up with developments in area of expertise by reading current journals, books, or magazine articles.
Attend meetings or seminars to obtain information for use in training programs or to inform management of training program status.
Coordinate recruitment and placement of training program participants.
Select and assign instructors to conduct training.
Negotiate contracts with clients for desired training outcomes, fees, or expenses.
Supervise, evaluate, or refer instructors to skill development classes.
Schedule classes based on availability of classrooms, equipment, or instructors.
Refer trainees to employer relations representatives, to locations offering job placement assistance, or to appropriate social services agencies, if warranted.
Develop or implement training programs related to efficiency, recycling, or other issues with environmental impacts.
What still needs a person
0 of 20 tasks
When AI is paired with workflow tools, every task in this role is reachable. That doesn't mean the role disappears, it means almost all the routine surface area can be compressed.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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