Working with Key Properties

In this article, we are going to dig deeper into the fundamental properties that shape an organization's culture and are used while configuring the entire company profile starting from basic settings, such as the list of countries available in the company profile to different properties used in the approval flows.

To start working with those properties, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Settings ⚙ and go to the Customization → Key Properties section.
2. Choose which property type you would like to edit.
• Note: You cannot edit the system offered options.
3. Click the + Add button to create a new property:
• To edit the existing property click on it and make the needed adjustments.
• To delete the property click on the Bin 🗑️ icon.
4. Once the property is added or updated, click the Cancel or Save button to discard or save the changes accordingly.

List of Key Properties

• Countries - here you will find a list of countries that you can use within the Spark.work account, display on the job opening page, etc.
  
  
• Note: It is not possible to customize, add, or remove the country list as it is available in the system by default.
• States - list of states and cities.
  
• Skills - here you can create the skills needed for the organization's employee profiles, as well as when describing job openings, requisitions, etc.
  
  
• Note: You can also create custom skills across the entire platform wherever Skills selection is offered.  Add a new skill in any Skills drop-down list, which will become a new option.
• Languages - list of languages that can be added to the employee profiles, job openings, requisitions, etc.
• Education degree - here you can add the educational degrees which you can later add to your employee profiles, candidates profiles, job openings, etc.
• Gender - usually used in the employees' profiles.
• Employment types - used in the employee profiles, job openings, requisitions, etc.
  
  
• For example: Contractor, Full-time, Intern, Part-time.
• End Of Employment Reasons - list reasons for employee contract termination.
  
  
• Note: It is important to create this property as the system will require you to choose employment termination reason.
• Compensation types - list of compensations that your organization should provide to its employees.
• Compensation reasons - list of purposes for each compensation type.
• Onboarding template types - create template types that will be used within the onboarding stage.
• Offboarding template types - create template types that will be used within the offboarding stage.
• Project properties:
  
  
• Tags - create tags that will later be used for each project of the organization accordingly.
• Types -  create different types of projects, for example mobile, web.
• Clients - list the names of your clients that will later be assigned to each project or vice versa.
• Requisition reasons - specify reasons which will be used when creating the requisition.
  
  
• Note: It's important to have created the requisition reasons in advance as the system will require you to choose one while creating the requisition.
• Candidate rejection reasons - add reasons as to why the candidate was rejected to keep track on your database.
• Requisition closing reason - create reasons to be able to close the requisition when the candidate is hired for example, or there is no need for the specific job anymore, etc.
• Requisition discarding reason - specify several reasons as to why the requisition should be discarded, otherwise the system won't allow to discard/delete the requisition.
• Job opening closing reasons - if you have already hired someone or decided to close the Job Opening, you will need to specify the reason why you are doing that. Those reasons should be created in this section.
• Job opening discarding reasons - create several reasons as to why the Job Opening should be discarded.
• Applicant sources - specify mediums where the applicants are coming from to use in the job opening page, etc.
• Note: You can edit and delete all the properties except for the “LinkedIn Plugin” and “HR Drone”.
• Applicant sources determined as Public ones, will be displayed on the job application form.
• Applicants/candidates tags - create tags to add to your applicants and candidates and use them as a filtration for your future database.
  
  
• For example: Best match, Overqualified, Disqualified, Reserve.
• Candidate current job leaving reasons - specify several reasons to add them in the candidates' profiles after 1st round interview.
  
• Objective Completion Reasons - specify the reasons why objectives were completed or not achieved.
• Meeting Types - define different types of meetings for scheduling and tracking purposes.
• For example: 1-on-1 meetings, project meetings, assessment meetings.
  

Important: It is not possible to delete a property in case it is used somewhere in the system. You will need to unassign the used property from the employees' profiles and other pages to be able to delete it or you will archive it.