Create Job Categories

Administrator Guide

Security: Set Up: Job
domain in the Jobs & Positions functional area.

You can use job categories to group job profiles by broad categories. You can define your own job categories based on your company's needs.

Access the

Maintain Job Categories

task.

For each category, specify the

Job Category Name

and

Job Category Description

Job Category Name	Job Category Description
Direct Labor	Workers directly involved in the production of goods or services.
Indirect Labor	Workers who don't directly produce goods or services, but who make their production possible or more efficient. Indirect labor costs are'nt readily identifiable with a specific task or work order.
Sales Labor	Workers who are directly involved in the selling of goods and services.
Research contract and grant administration	Workers who are responsible for administration and monitoring of research contracts and research grants.
Data collection, processing, and analysis	Workers who collect, process, and analyze data.

Assign a job category to a job profile. When you staff a job or position based on a job profile, the assigned job category populates.

During a hire, transfer, or other staffing event, you can't override or modify job categories that populate to a worker's job or position.