Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
The short answer
Parts of this job are expected to change. AI can already assist with some of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 2,866 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth for how much AI could touch it—right around the middle.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 58% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation.
AI could do much of this on its own
Refer students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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