Talent Acquisition includes roles concentrated on workforce staffing/recruiting including: employer branding; talent sourcing; job advertising and posting; applicant evaluation and screening; interviewing and assessing; offer and contract generation; and executive search. Also covers onboarding new colleagues, or colleagues transitioning into new roles.

Professional stream includes those who are individual contributors with main emphasis on applying technical/discipline knowledge rather than managing people to achieve results – although coaching/mentoring less experienced staff, informal supervisory responsibilities, or overseeing work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and program are common.

Individual work ranges from setting objectives and delivering on own work responsibilities to being a leading expert within a given field and influencing long term tactical decisions of the organization.