Human resources administrative occupations

Also called: Administrative officer, Administrative assistant, Human resources administrator, People clerk, Admin officer, Admin assistant, Personnel clerk, Hr administrator, Hr admin assistant, Training assistant, Hr support officer, Course administrator

Human resources administrative occupations provide administrative support for the human resources (HR) operations within organisations.

Main tasks

• Supports senior HR staff in the development and implementation of HR and industrial relations policies
• Arranges advertisements for jobs in the relevant media
• Provides practical support for recruitment and selection procedures such as checking application forms, arranging interviews of candidates and ensuring the interview panel receive all relevant documentation
• Provides administrative support for training courses, work placements etc
• Implements and maintains HR records systems

How to become one

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although some employers may require degree level qualifications and most entrants possess GCSE/S grades. Certification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is available, along with relevant NVQs/SVQs at various levels.

Ways in

• University: Arts & Humanities degrees, Offered by 27 universities in the UK
• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 27 universities in the UK

Pay · Outlook

• Median full-time pay: £26,851 a year The middle half earn £24,827 to £31,843.
• About 63,400 people work in this job now, and about 60,300 are projected by 2035. (-5%)

Related jobs

• Records clerks and assistants
• Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants
• Stock control clerks and assistants
• Transport and distribution clerks and assistants
• Library clerks and assistants

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Sources

• Office for National Statistics: Annual Population Survey: employment by occupation (April 2025 to March 2026), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: SOC 2020 Volume 1: structure and descriptions (2026-08-27 edition), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Department for Education: Skills Imperative 2035: employment projections by occupation (2021 to 2035 (Warwick IER / Cambridge Econometrics)), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14 (2025 provisional), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03

Updated 2026-10-03

Graduate outcomes: Discover Uni dataset, HESA (www.hesa.ac.uk), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Aggregated by subject and adapted by Peernovo.