UK AI Exposure · Professional occupations
Teaching professionals n.e.c.
Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other teaching occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 231: Teaching and educational professionals.
- Employees (UK)
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- Median annual pay
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- Exposure score ?
- 0.6/10 Minimal 5.7/10 Moderate strict reading · with tools is 5.7/10 with-tools reading · strict is 0.6/10
- Wage exposure
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Higher exposure than 30% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means
Most of this role's work is still genuinely hard for AI to do. Physical presence, bodily skill, high-context judgment, direct human care - the things that don't translate to text.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
You're not in the firing line today. But the frontier moves. Build enough AI fluency now that you can direct it for the parts of your work that could benefit. People in unexposed roles who understand AI become unusually valuable inside their organisations.
A meaningful slice of the task inventory is AI-reachable - the drafting, summarising, research and analysis parts especially. This role is at the point where the people who learn to direct AI well pull ahead of the people who don't.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Treat AI as a colleague you manage, not a tool you use. Identify the tasks where you'd describe the work to a capable junior - those are the tasks AI can do for you now. Spend your time on the judgment calls and the relationships instead.
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgment, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where we start — flip the toggle to 'With tools' to see what AI plus the right context can compress.
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Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
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Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
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Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
These are the highest-importance tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these — usually the difference between an LLM that can technically do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
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Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
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Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.
Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
The full task breakdown
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can already do unaided versus what still needs a human. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
Tasks via O*NET "Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors" (21-1012.00).
What AI can already do
2 of 35 tasks · unaided
Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.
Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
Where humans still hold the line
33 of 35 tasks
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
Refer students to outside counseling services.
Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
Refer students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments.
Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.
Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.
Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Provide students with information on topics such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs.
Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met.
Instruct individuals in career development techniques, such as job search and application strategies, resume writing, and interview skills.
Assess needs for assistance, such as rehabilitation, financial aid, or additional vocational training, and refer clients to the appropriate services.
Establish and enforce administration policies and rules governing student behavior.
Plan and promote career and employment-related programs and events, such as career planning presentations, work experience programs, job fairs, and career workshops.
Attend meetings, educational conferences, and training workshops, and serve on committees.
Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning.
Plan and conduct orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences, such as starting college.
Address community groups, faculty, and staff members to explain available counseling services.
Supervise, train, and direct professional staff and interns.
Provide information for teachers and staff members involved in helping students or graduates identify and pursue employment opportunities.
Interview clients to obtain information about employment history, educational background, and career goals, and to identify barriers to employment.
Collaborate with teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of school programs and in the preparation of master schedules for curriculum offerings.
Plan, direct, and participate in recruitment and enrollment activities.
Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.
Establish contacts with employers to create internship and employment opportunities for students.
Establish and supervise peer-counseling and peer-tutoring programs.
Observe students during classroom and play activities to evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Refer qualified counselees to employers or employment services for job placement.
Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
Tasks via O*NET "Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors" (21-1012.00).
What AI can already do
19 of 35 tasks · with tools
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.
Refer students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments.
Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.
Provide students with information on topics such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs.
Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met.
Instruct individuals in career development techniques, such as job search and application strategies, resume writing, and interview skills.
Assess needs for assistance, such as rehabilitation, financial aid, or additional vocational training, and refer clients to the appropriate services.
Plan and promote career and employment-related programs and events, such as career planning presentations, work experience programs, job fairs, and career workshops.
Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning.
Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
Provide information for teachers and staff members involved in helping students or graduates identify and pursue employment opportunities.
Collaborate with teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of school programs and in the preparation of master schedules for curriculum offerings.
Plan, direct, and participate in recruitment and enrollment activities.
Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.
Establish contacts with employers to create internship and employment opportunities for students.
Establish and supervise peer-counseling and peer-tutoring programs.
Refer qualified counselees to employers or employment services for job placement.
Where humans still hold the line
16 of 35 tasks
Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
Refer students to outside counseling services.
Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.
Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Establish and enforce administration policies and rules governing student behavior.
Attend meetings, educational conferences, and training workshops, and serve on committees.
Plan and conduct orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences, such as starting college.
Address community groups, faculty, and staff members to explain available counseling services.
Supervise, train, and direct professional staff and interns.
Interview clients to obtain information about employment history, educational background, and career goals, and to identify barriers to employment.
Observe students during classroom and play activities to evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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