What Senior HR Jobs Ask For
Across 2,019 open Senior HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management.
Updated October 6, 2026
2,329 open Senior HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 2,019 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 69% |
| performance-management | 61% |
| talent-management | 32% |
| succession-planning | 32% |
| analytics | 28% |
| ai | 23% |
| stakeholder-management | 14% |
| corrective-action | 11% |
| automation | 10% |
| process-improvement | 10% |
| people-analytics | 6% |
| regulatory-compliance | 5% |
| agile | 5% |
| cloud | 4% |
| data-analytics | 4% |
| osha | 4% |
| candidate-experience | 3% |
| accessibility | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| employer-branding | 3% |
| strategic-planning | 3% |
| program-management | 3% |
| saas | 2% |
| oracle | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| agentic-ai | 2% |
| full-cycle-recruiting | 2% |
| vendor-management | 2% |
| successfactors | 2% |
| ai-enablement | 2% |
| sharepoint | 2% |
| powerbi | 2% |
| bamboohr | 2% |
| backbone | 1% |
| data-governance | 1% |
| express | 1% |
| servicenow | 1% |
| cybersecurity | 1% |
| hipaa | 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.
Browse 2,329 open Senior HR jobs →
Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 10,865
- performance-management 8,530
- talent-management 3,768
- succession-planning 3,578
- analytics 2,975
- ai 2,156
- corrective-action 1,876
- process-improvement 1,450
- stakeholder-management 1,365
- automation 1,137
- osha 810
- regulatory-compliance 805