When you have a lot of custom fields, a single unstructured list gets hard to navigate fast. Custom Field Categories let you group related fields under a shared label — so recruiters see organized sections instead of a wall of inputs when editing a candidate, job, contact, or company record.
What Are Custom Field Categories?
A Custom Field Category is a label that groups related fields together. Categories appear wherever those fields show up — on record profiles, forms, the Chrome Extension, and internal workflows.
For example, a category called "Compensation Details" might contain "Expected Salary" and "Current CTC." A category called "Client Info" could hold job- or contact-specific data points your team tracks for clients.
Categories are workspace-wide and apply across all entity types — Candidates, Jobs, Contacts, Companies, and more.
How to Create a Custom Field Category
Go to Settings → Custom Fields.
Select the tab for the entity type you want to organize (Candidate, Job, Contact, etc.).
Find a field you want to categorize. Click the dropdown next to its "Uncategorized" label, then click Edit.
In the field editor, type a new name in the Field Category box and click Create.
Optionally, add a Description so your team understands what the category is for.
Click Save.
The category is now available for any field. The field will appear under that category label wherever it's displayed in the system.
Categories are shared across all entity types. A category you create while editing a Candidate field will also be available when editing Job or Contact fields.
Example: Setting Up a "Compensation Details" Category
Your team tracks "Expected Salary," "Current CTC," and "Notice Period" on every candidate. Instead of having them scattered across a long field list, you create a Compensation Details category and assign all three fields to it. Now every recruiter sees those fields grouped together when viewing or editing a candidate profile — no hunting required.
Things to Know
Keep category names broad and functional — "Hiring Manager Notes" works better than "Notes From John's Calls."
Avoid creating too many categories. A handful of clear buckets beats a dozen narrow ones.
Review your categories periodically as your field list grows. Merging or renaming categories is easy from the same Settings screen.
There's no limit on how many fields can belong to a single category.
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