Personnel and careers professionals

Personnel and careers professionals provide professional business services related to personnel policies such as employee recruitment or development, occupational analyzes and vocational guidance.

Skill level: Highly skilled

Check your pay

  • Salary range for the majority of workers in Personnel and careers professionals - from R13 217 to R41 468 per month - 2025.
  • A Personnel and careers professionals typically earns between R13 217 and R26 243 net per month at the start of the job.
  • After 5 years of service, this is between R18 233 and R35 251 per month for a working week of 45 hours.

Duties and tasks

  • Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
  • Studying and analyzing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained
  • Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems
  • Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupation analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance
  • Studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable

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