What Senior HR Jobs Ask For
Across 1,190 open Senior HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, talent-management.
Updated October 28, 2026
1,290 open Senior HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 1,190 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 67% |
| performance-management | 55% |
| talent-management | 30% |
| succession-planning | 27% |
| ai | 25% |
| analytics | 25% |
| hris | 25% |
| automation | 12% |
| corrective-action | 11% |
| stakeholder-management | 11% |
| process-improvement | 9% |
| people-analytics | 6% |
| cloud | 5% |
| data-analytics | 4% |
| regulatory-compliance | 4% |
| accessibility | 4% |
| agile | 4% |
| risk-assessment | 3% |
| program-management | 3% |
| saas | 3% |
| candidate-experience | 3% |
| agentic-ai | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| strategic-planning | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| gdpr | 2% |
| employer-branding | 2% |
| microsoft-365 | 2% |
| cybersecurity | 2% |
| powerbi | 2% |
| servicenow | 2% |
| oracle | 2% |
| business-development | 2% |
| fintech | 2% |
| statistics | 2% |
| successfactors | 2% |
| hipaa | 2% |
| root-cause-analysis | 2% |
| machine-learning | 1% |
| osha | 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 1,290 open Senior HR jobs →
Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 5,261
- performance-management 3,935
- hris 2,435
- talent-management 1,846
- succession-planning 1,678
- analytics 1,604
- ai 1,558
- corrective-action 852
- process-improvement 762
- automation 719
- stakeholder-management 607
- accessibility 385