What Senior HR Jobs Ask For
Across 263 open Senior HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, ai.
Updated November 1, 2026
343 open Senior HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 263 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 61% |
| performance-management | 54% |
| ai | 29% |
| talent-management | 28% |
| analytics | 27% |
| succession-planning | 23% |
| automation | 17% |
| stakeholder-management | 13% |
| process-improvement | 11% |
| people-analytics | 7% |
| cloud | 6% |
| data-analytics | 6% |
| corrective-action | 6% |
| risk-assessment | 5% |
| agile | 5% |
| saas | 3% |
| agentic-ai | 3% |
| ccpa | 3% |
| gdpr | 3% |
| program-management | 3% |
| regulatory-compliance | 3% |
| sap | 3% |
| accessibility | 2% |
| backbone | 2% |
| candidate-experience | 2% |
| employer-branding | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| go-to-market | 2% |
| networking | 2% |
| smartrecruiters | 2% |
| bamboohr | 2% |
| first-aid | 2% |
| root-cause-analysis | 2% |
| servicenow | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 567
- performance-management 525
- ai 290
- analytics 286
- talent-management 232
- succession-planning 174
- automation 149
- stakeholder-management 107
- process-improvement 104
- ccpa 93
- accessibility 91
- data-analytics 86