Job Family Overview

A job family is a collection of jobs that share similarities in their roles, even though they might have different functions or titles. Job families are useful for organizing and reporting purposes. For example, if you have various jobs related to administration, such as Administrator Clerk, Administrator Manager, and Administrator Assistant, and they all involve similar kinds of work, you can group them together under a category called the "Administrator Family."

 

Example 1: In the same way sales manager, sales representative, and sales consultant so these are all can be under the sales family.

Example 2: Developer, senior developer, associate developer, and manager developer so these are all come under the family which is called the Developer Family.

You might be wondering why this grouping is necessary. Well, it's not mandatory; it's an optional feature when creating a job. The reason for doing it is to make reporting easier. For instance, if you want to run a report on different sales positions like Sales Manager, Sales Executive, and Sales Representative, without job families, you'd have to run separate reports for each of them.

However, if you group them under a job family, let's say "Sales Family," when generating the report, you can simply select the "Sales Family" as a parameter. This way, all the jobs associated with that family will automatically be included in the report. It's a convenience, not a requirement.

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