Try It Out: Add Fields to the Candidate Object

To create custom fields on the Candidate object, from Setup, click Create | Objects, and click Candidate to view its detail page. In the Custom Fields & Relationships related list, use the New button to create custom fields according to the following table. Where necessary, we've indicated some additional values you'll need to fill in. Otherwise, you can simply accept all defaults.

One difference you'll see in the Candidate object fields is that three of them—First Name, Last Name, and Email—have the External ID option selected. This option allows the values in these fields to be indexed for search from the sidebar of the application. If we didn't select these values as external IDs, we'd only be able to search for records based on the Candidate Number field. Setting the Email field as an external ID is also going to help us with importing data a little later in this chapter.