The phrase "professional affinity" is correct and is used to describe a strong connection or liking for something related to one's work or profession.
It can be used in both spoken and written English. For example, "Jane's professional affinity for programming led her to develop a highly successful software company."
But professional affinity communities, which I find most appealing, are few and far between.
As a member of the Central Pool of Artists touring Italy he met another member, Spike Milligan, whose offbeat sketches were considered rather too advanced, but with whom he felt a professional affinity.
All this raw initiative results in plenty of professional, affinity, and leisure groups that enhance what you learn in the classroom.
If you start to actively associate with those in your existing network with whom you have a professional affinity, rather than envisioning networking as something that "other people do" or "only others do well," you will make that first step toward actively creating an integrated network that works for you, rather than only belonging to a passive one created by default, not design.
Or that you will join a professional affinity group and attend a networking meeting once a quarter instead of saying that you want more business contacts.
What came to be known as "constituency events" brought together, in a series of high-profile workshops and dialogues, key professional, affinity or sectoral partners with major roles to play in building a Global Movement for Children.
And in contrast to earlier, sleazier-looking practitioners, Razek evidently prides himself on his sensibility: a regularly updated Instagram accounts reveals a creative who, whatever his professional affinities with Raymond's Revuebar, nurses a passion for natural beauty: sunsets, gardens, the moon over Rome.
Peer review is a highly subjective process; personal knowledge [ 28], private interests of reviewers such as professional affinities or rivalries [ 21, 42], a preference towards interesting topics and favourable results [ 23], or towards the confirmation of their own thinking [ 28, 49] can affect the review (i.e. biased reviewers).
Conway attributes his semi-professional affinity for crudeness to the seventeenth-century verse of the Earl of Rochester ("It's kind of fantastic, in an incredibly vivid and naughty way"), and Jay named George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and W. C. Fields ("I just loved 'Godfrey Daniel' ") as academic influences.
For example, they are combining personal interests with their careers by joining professional organizations, affinity groups, favorite nonprofits and even the PTA boards of their children's schools.
Expand your network both online (Linked-in; Facebook; Twitter; Instagram etc) and off line by attending selected networking events and researching new professional and affinity groups that are relevant to your industry.
