Approval To Fill Position. Supervisory approvals often are required before a hiring manager and / or HR personnel may begin sourcing candidates (for example, posting a position opening). Hiring processes vary considerably. This approval may occur at the time the underlying budget for the position is approved or this may be a separate step that occurs after budgetary approval.

Outsourced Service Provider Provisioning. Many hosted and outsourced service providers need to be provided with information about the universe of employees or human resources that they will manage or for which they will provide related services. This involves providing the service provider with an initial build of organizational, position, and human resource data and often involves the communication of updates as business and life events change data provided in the initial build.

Employee Promotion or Position Transfer. The promotion or transfer of an employee to a new position obviously triggers a variety of associated changes (reporting relationships, pay and benefit changes, work location changes, etc.).