Employment - Activity vs Position

[gsp]

On the supplemental form under "Employment" - it says to list your employment under the heading "Activity" and directs you under another heading to "indicate your position and briefly describe your responsibilities"

 

Are activity and position not the same thing? What are people filling in and where!

[bpp]

I think a lot of times they are the same, for example "research assistant". Sometimes they would be different, e.g. the activity might be "retail employment" but title could be manager, sales associate etc.