What Principal HR Jobs Ask For
Across 72 open Principal HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, succession-planning.
Updated October 17, 2026
82 open Principal HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 72 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 63% |
| performance-management | 63% |
| succession-planning | 50% |
| talent-management | 44% |
| analytics | 38% |
| ai | 32% |
| people-analytics | 11% |
| automation | 8% |
| oracle | 8% |
| agile | 7% |
| cloud | 7% |
| pmp | 7% |
| saas | 7% |
| stakeholder-management | 7% |
"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 12,521
- performance-management 9,667
- talent-management 4,396
- succession-planning 4,145
- analytics 3,468
- ai 2,423
- corrective-action 2,147
- process-improvement 1,747
- stakeholder-management 1,530
- automation 1,286
- osha 895
- regulatory-compliance 874