What Senior HR Jobs Ask For
Across 3,375 open Senior HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management.
Updated November 5, 2026
4,555 open Senior HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 3,375 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 63% |
| performance-management | 50% |
| talent-management | 26% |
| hris | 26% |
| succession-planning | 26% |
| analytics | 24% |
| ai | 19% |
| hr-operations | 16% |
| stakeholder-management | 13% |
| corrective-action | 11% |
| process-improvement | 9% |
| automation | 9% |
| people-analytics | 6% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| data-analytics | 4% |
| sap | 4% |
| agile | 4% |
| candidate-experience | 3% |
| employer-branding | 3% |
| cloud | 3% |
| powerbi | 3% |
| successfactors | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| accessibility | 2% |
| risk-assessment | 2% |
| osha | 2% |
| strategic-planning | 2% |
| oracle | 2% |
| saas | 2% |
| program-management | 2% |
| agentic-ai | 2% |
| sharepoint | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| gdpr | 1% |
| networking | 1% |
| cybersecurity | 1% |
| erp | 1% |
| vendor-management | 1% |
| ecommerce | 1% |
| generative-ai | 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 16,630
- performance-management 12,394
- hris 7,789
- talent-management 5,339
- succession-planning 5,231
- analytics 4,603
- hr-operations 3,959
- ai 3,244
- corrective-action 2,864
- stakeholder-management 2,397
- process-improvement 2,142
- automation 1,690