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How to Assign a Custom Employment Type

How to Assign a Custom Employment Type

Within MakeShift, administrators have the ability to assign users with an employment type. The employment type can be one of our default types, which include: Full Time, Part Time and Casual. As a special note, any new user that has been added into MakeShift, will automatically be assigned the default of Full Time for their employment type. 

Some companies may want to assign a custom employment type to a user. First, you must ensure your custom employment type has been created, please click on the article here to learn more about How to Create Custom Employment Types.

To assign employment types, you must first click on the People tab from the top navigation bar. 

 schedules tab

Click on the name of the user you would like to assign an employment type to. To locate them quickly, use the search field.

search

The next page you will see is an overview of the employee’s profile.

employee profile

Click the grey Edit User button in the bottom left-hand corner.

Edit user

 

Scroll down the page and select Employment Type.

Employment type full time

From there make your new employment type selection for the employee.

full time

Once you have made your selection, select the blue Update User button located at the bottle of the page in order to save your changes to the employee’s profile. 

update user

As a special note, company admins can use the option to assign multiple users with a new employment type at once. Please review the support article on Assigning Departments, Employment Type and Roles to Multiple Users for more information.