This tutorial walks you through setting up two objects in the Caraer app — **Candidate** and **Vacancy** — and adding properties so you can manage recruitment data.

## What you'll build

- An **Candidate** object with properties such as name, email, phone, and application status
- A **Vacancy** object with properties such as title, department, location, and status
- A clear structure you can reuse for other objects in your environment


## Prerequisites

- Access to the Caraer app with permission to create and edit objects
- A basic idea of which fields you need for candidates and vacancies


## Step 1: Create the Candidate object

1. In the Caraer app, go to the area where you manage **objects** (often under Settings or Configuration).
2. Click **Create object** (or **Add object**).
3. Set the **name** to **Candidate** (and a technical key/slug if your app asks for one, e.g. `candidate`).
4. Save the object. You now have an empty Candidate object.


## Step 2: Add properties to Candidate

Add properties so each candidate record can hold the right information. For example:

| Property name | Type | Notes |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| Full name | Text | Single-line name |
| Email | Email | Contact email |
| Phone | Phone | Contact number |
| Application status | Single select | e.g. New, In progress, Hired, Rejected |
| Applied for | Relation | Link to Vacancy (add after Step 4) |
| Notes | Long text | Internal notes |


For each property:

1. Open the **Candidate** object and go to **Properties** (or the equivalent section).
2. Click **Add property**.
3. Choose the **type** (Text, Email, Phone, Single select, Relation, Long text, etc.).
4. Give it a **label** (e.g. "Full name", "Email") and, if required, a **key** (e.g. `fullName`, `email`).
5. Configure any options (e.g. for Single select, add the status values; for Relation, you'll link to Vacancy once that object exists).
6. Save the property.


Repeat for all Candidate properties. You can add more later (e.g. CV, source, date applied).

## Step 3: Create the Vacancy object

1. Go back to the object list and click **Create object** again.
2. Set the **name** to **Vacancy** (and key/slug e.g. `vacancy`).
3. Save. You now have a Vacancy object.


## Step 4: Add properties to Vacancy

Add properties that describe a vacancy:

| Property name | Type | Notes |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| Title | Text | Job title |
| Department | Single select | e.g. Engineering, Sales |
| Location | Text | Office or remote |
| Status | Single select | e.g. Open, Filled, Closed |
| Description | Long text | Job description |
| Candidates | Relation | Link to Candidate |


Create each property the same way as for Candidate. For **Candidates**, create a **Relation** property that points to the **Candidate** object (and optionally set it as a list on the Vacancy side). If you added "Applied for" on Candidate, link that relation to **Vacancy** so Candidate and Vacancy are connected both ways.

## Step 5: Use your objects

- **Candidate**: Create records for each applicant; fill in name, email, phone, application status, and link "Applied for" to the right Vacancy.
- **Vacancy**: Create records for each job; fill in title, department, location, status, description, and see linked Candidates.


You can now use lists, views, and (if available) forms or workflows on these objects.

## Next steps

- Add more properties (e.g. date applied, salary range on Vacancy) as needed.
- Use the [API](/apis) to create or update Candidate and Vacancy records programmatically.
- Check the [changelog](/changelog/intro) for new object and property options in the app.