Abstract: Candidate identification and matching for professional positions, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A representative method includes obtaining first key phrase groups based on textual input, converting the first key phrase groups into vectors defined in accordance with a collection of key phrases, generating a set of topics based on the vectors, generating second key phrase groups based on an association between individual topics of the set of topics and the collection of key phrases, and identifying documentation associated with one or more candidates for a professional position based on the second key phrase groups.