What C-level HR Jobs Ask For
Across 839 open C-level HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, succession-planning.
Updated October 8, 2026
1,001 open C-level HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 839 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 67% |
| performance-management | 59% |
| succession-planning | 38% |
| analytics | 32% |
| talent-management | 28% |
| ai | 24% |
| automation | 16% |
| corrective-action | 13% |
| stakeholder-management | 12% |
| people-analytics | 9% |
| candidate-experience | 9% |
| process-improvement | 8% |
| regulatory-compliance | 8% |
| employer-branding | 7% |
| strategic-planning | 5% |
| saas | 5% |
| vendor-management | 4% |
| osha | 4% |
| agile | 3% |
| full-cycle-recruiting | 3% |
| agentic-ai | 3% |
| oracle | 3% |
| data-analytics | 3% |
| successfactors | 3% |
| cloud | 3% |
| hipaa | 3% |
| data-governance | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| networking | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| accessibility | 2% |
| backbone | 2% |
| ecommerce | 2% |
| ai-enablement | 2% |
| adp | 1% |
| go-to-market | 1% |
| machine-learning | 1% |
| risk-assessment | 1% |
| sharepoint | 1% |
"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 11,177
- performance-management 8,730
- talent-management 3,891
- succession-planning 3,654
- analytics 3,083
- ai 2,252
- corrective-action 1,967
- process-improvement 1,526
- stakeholder-management 1,385
- automation 1,160
- osha 840
- regulatory-compliance 816