PeopleSync Fundamentals: Job Family Group, Job Family and Job Profile

The taxonomy for organizing data on jobs/positions is hierarchical and follows this structure:

Job Family Group

Job Family

Job Profile

Here are the definitions of each:

Job Family Group	The broadest category of classification. Examples of Job Family Groups include Academic and Administrative/Professional. It contains a set of related job families.
Job Family	Broad groupings of jobs that perform similar functions such as Human Resources. Job Family is a set of related job profiles.
Job Profile	Describes general characteristics of a position and identify special skills, management level, exempt status, grade/band (if applicable) and / or other qualifications. Each position or job is assigned a Job Profile.

There are seven Job Family Groups:

NYU – Academic
NYU – Administrative/Professional
NYU – Union
NYU – Non-Exempt/Non-Union
NYU – Casual
NYU – Student
Additional Compensation

Within each are numerous Job Families. Here is an example for NYU – Academic which has seven job families.

NYU – Academic
- Academic Administration
- Adjunct Faculty
- Non Tenure Track Full Time Faculty
- Post Doctoral
- Professional Researcher
- Student Related Positions
- Tenure/Tenure Track Full Time Faculty

Within each Job Family are the Job Profiles. Here is an example of the WSQ based job profiles for Tenure/Track Full Time Faculty:

- Tenure/Tenure Track Full Time Faculty
  - 001000 – Professor with Chair
  - 001001 – Professor
  - 001002 – Associate Professor
  - 001003 – Assistant Professor
  - 001101 – Curator
  - 001102 – Associate Curator
  - 001103 – Assistant Curator
  - 001105 – Retiree (Faculty/Researcher

Run the NYU Job Profiles report in PeopleSync to view a complete list of all job profiles. This will show the job profile, job family and job family group.

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