pharmacy assistant

Pharmacy assistants perform general duties, such as stock management, serving at the cash desk, or performing administrative duties. They deal with the inventory within the pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.

The most in-demand skills for this role include hygiene in a health care setting, medicines, medicines for self-medication, follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health, check information on prescriptions, respond to changing situations in health care. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives pharmacy assistant a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.