What Principal HR Jobs Ask For
Across 40 open Principal HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, succession-planning.
Updated October 28, 2026
40 open Principal HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 40 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 70% |
| performance-management | 63% |
| succession-planning | 53% |
| talent-management | 40% |
| analytics | 35% |
| ai | 33% |
| hris | 20% |
| oracle | 15% |
| pmp | 13% |
| program-management | 13% |
| stakeholder-management | 13% |
"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 5,284
- performance-management 3,948
- hris 2,445
- talent-management 1,852
- succession-planning 1,685
- analytics 1,609
- ai 1,571
- corrective-action 853
- process-improvement 766
- automation 718
- stakeholder-management 610
- accessibility 385