What Principal HR Jobs Ask For
Across 62 open Principal HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, succession-planning.
Updated October 5, 2026
71 open Principal HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 62 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 66% |
| performance-management | 60% |
| succession-planning | 53% |
| talent-management | 50% |
| analytics | 39% |
| ai | 34% |
| people-analytics | 11% |
| automation | 10% |
| cloud | 10% |
"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 10,828
- performance-management 8,513
- talent-management 3,759
- succession-planning 3,563
- analytics 2,964
- ai 2,143
- corrective-action 1,862
- process-improvement 1,443
- stakeholder-management 1,361
- automation 1,130
- osha 807
- regulatory-compliance 802