Master file or smart object?

I am creating employment IDs in illustrator. They are all similar and have some common information, however my company has several different departments which requires a title change on some along with some other minor changes. Is there a way to create a 'master' for each department with the information that's common to all and lay them out with multiple on a page so that when/if a change is made to the 'master', they all update? Sort of like a smart object?

You can create a symbol out of the objects concerned and then place instances of this symbol in the file. When you update the symbol, its instances are updated as well.

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