Use Custom fields to tailor the information you collect and display across your recruitment workflows. You can add custom fields to job postings, candidate profiles, and job offers to capture information specific to your company.

In the Compensation tab, you can manage the compensation types available in your organization.

Start by heading over to Settings → Recruitment → Custom fields to manage the custom fields and compensation settings.

A custom field appears at the top left-hand side of your candidate's profile and is a great place for you to make sure you have the information needed for a fair and good assessment.

Field types

Automatic updates

When this setting is enabled for a candidate custom field, it becomes available when setting up a Request missing info trigger used to collect missing information directly from candidates. Co-pilot identifies when the field is missing, includes a question about it in the questionnaire sent to the candidate, and automatically updates the field based on their answer.

Co-pilot matches the candidate's answer to the available options for the field, so the information is stored in the correct format. Any connected questions to the field will continue to work as before.

Field settings

Your field comes with three additional settings, allowing you to customize the candidate card even more.

* By default, the custom fields are hidden if empty, so you can focus on the information that is actually added there! Any empty field can be found under the filled fields, like so:

API settings

You can also set to use a custom field as an API Field. This means the field is not visible on the candidate but can be set from the API. Under API Name, you can select what name this field will have in the API.

Custom fields for job postings is a great way to include all the relevant information for the recruitment process you’re working on.

Field types

First of all, you will see four Standard fields. These are pre-created fields, there to make your setup easier. Note that these fields are by default visible on the job ad.

Need something else? No worries - you can also create Custom fields and include whatever information you need. The available fields are the same as listed under the Candidate custom fields.

Field settings

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Use job fields in filters

When you use job fields, you can use them to filter in the job list tab. The field types available for filter are:

API settings

You can also set a custom field to be used as an API Field. This means the field is not visible on the candidate but can be set from the API. Under API Name, you can select what name this field will have in the API.

When using our Job offers add-on feature, you can include additional information through custom fields. Create fields you want your users to choose from when creating job offers or include them in job offer templates.

Field types

Field settings

In the Field settings section of the custom field setup, you can enable Format validation. This option can be used when you want a text custom field to follow a specific format. This helps ensure that the information is added in a consistent format.
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Teamtailor will then check that the entered value matches the format you set, both in custom fields within Teamtailor and in questions connected to a custom field using format validation in:

When you enable it, you’ll see two fields:

What’s a regex?

A regex (short for regular expression) is a way of describing what a piece of text should look like, using a small set of symbols. It’s a tool developers use a lot, but you can often find ready-made patterns online for the formats you need. A few common building blocks:

^[A-Z]{3}-\d{4}$ means: three uppercase letters, then a dash, then four digits, and nothing else. ABC-1234 matches, whereas abc-1234 or AB-1234 don’t.

Pick an example that’s easy to recognise. People filling out the field will see this hint, and ABC-1234 is a lot easier than reading the regex.

If your example doesn’t match the pattern, you’ll see a little warning. The example will still save, so you can use it for free-form explanations if you’d rather write a short description than a sample value.

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Format validation helps keep data clean and consistent. It improves how data is stored within Teamtailor and sent through integrations by ensuring values are entered in the expected format.

A custom field can be deleted under Settings → Recruitment → Custom fields in the editing window. Note that when you delete a custom field, you will delete all of the information from the custom field for every candidate, job, and job offer.

In the Compensation tab under Settings → Recruitment → Custom fields, you can define how compensation should be categorized in your organization when using the job custom field Compensation. By configuring compensation types, currencies, and recurrence options to match your company's needs, you help create a consistent way to manage compensation information across your recruitment workflows.

Here, you can choose which options should be available for each compensation field and set a company default.

The Compensation type, Currency, and Recurrence fields will be prefilled with the default options set when creating a requisition *, job, job offer **, and job offer template**. The same applies when setting up approval flows for requisitions, jobs, and job offers. Users can still select a different available option if needed.