How to become a human resource consultant

Official title: Human resource consultant (excluding executive search consultant)

Also called: Career advisor, Career coach, Career consultant, Compensation and benefits specialist, Employment counsellor, Human resource (HR) business partner, Human resource (HR) generalist, Job analyst, Job evaluator, Occupational analyst, Talent acquisition specialist, Ÿ Career consultant

Human resource consultant (excluding executive search consultant) provides consultancy services on personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy. He/she studies and analyses 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.

Main tasks

• Providing consultancy services on personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
• Studying and analysing 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 analyses in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training, or occupational information and vocational guidance

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Executive search consultant
• Personnel/Human resource officer
• Industrial relations officer

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Questions people ask

How do I become a human resource consultant?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

Will AI change the work of a human resource consultant?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026