Professions

About professions

Depending on what services your business provides, you can set up and customize various professions in Sinch, e. g. stagehands, technicians, hostesses, models, security guards etc.

Professions serve many purposes in the logic of managing work and staff members in Sinch.

• Professions structure your workforce – each staff member in your database can have one or more professions.
• Professions allow you to specify prices and wages in greater detail – each profession can have its own rate in price list and wage list, so for example the work of more qualified professions can be more expensive etc.
• For each shift you must specify which profession the attending staff members are supposed to be. This ensures that only staff members from that profession can see the shift in the system and can sign up for it. It also allows the calculation of the price of the shift.

See the tutorial to learn about professions with a practical example.

Creating a new profession

1. Go to the main menu on the left and click Settings → Staff.

2. Click the Profession tab.

   On this page, you see a table overview of all your existing professions and their settings. In the Actions section on the right, you can edit, delete or mark as primary the selected profession. Marking a profession as primary means that this profession is pre-filled when creating a new shift.

3. Click Add profession.

   

   Create new profession

   Fill in the fields in the following dialog:

   1. Title. Enter the name of the new profession. Click on the flags below the field if you need to enter the title in more languages.

   2. Description. Enter the description of your new profession. This is not mandatory, but can be handy in case your company has many professions and you need to keep track of their specifics.

   3. Staff members can choose this profession. Select YES or NO for whether staff members can choose this profession in the drop-down menu.

      • If you select YES, you will allow staff members to choose a profession by themselves in their own profile. That might be advisable for professions that do not require any special skills.

      • If you select NO, they won’t be able to choose the profession themselves in their profile, but they will always need to be assigned the profession by an administrator. That might be advisable for professions that require verifying some skills beforehand.

   4. Auto assign to. Your new profession can be automatically assigned to your new female staff members, male staff members, both or neither when they are registering into Sinch. Select from the drop-down menu whether you want your new profession to be assigned to: No assign, Both genders, Males or Females.

Basic price of a new profession

Now you need to set the prices for the new profession in the Profession price list section. This will add price settings into the Basic price list, and all of the other existing custom price lists to make sure there will always be a price definition for the new profession, no matter what price list is used to calculate the price of work.

Note

See detailed information about Price lists.

1. Select for which role you want to set a price list: a staff member or a lead worker (e.g. crew boss, crew chief, senior hostess, etc.).

2. Select your Price type and fill in the prices accordingly:

   • Fix rate with hour range

     This price type allows you to set a combination price for shifts. You define certain time spans that will be charged by a fixed flat rate and set the hourly price for shifts that exceed the defined time span. Enter the number of hours for which you want to apply the fixed rate (Shift from and Shift to), fix the rate price and the hour price accordingly.

   • Hour rate

     The price of shifts with the Hour rate price type is calculated based on the hourly rate according to the number of hours actually worked.

   • Fix rate only

     The price of shifts with the Fix rate only is always the fixed rate no matter how long they actually take.

3. Click Save.

   

Note

See a thorough explanation of price types and a Price list creation example.