# Add a Designation

Create a job title for the organisation, and write the description that keeps it distinct.

Adding a title is a two-field job. It opens in a panel beside the list rather than on its own page, so the titles you already have stay in view while you name a new one.

- Select **Add Designation** on the Designations screen. The panel opens over the list.

  ![The Add Designation panel sliding in over the Designations list. The panel is headed Add Designation with the breadcrumb Worklink, Designations, Add Designation. A Designation Details section holds a Designation Name field marked required with the placeholder e.g. Software Engineer, and a Description field with the placeholder Brief description of this role. Cancel and Save buttons sit at the foot.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/designations/designation-create.png)
- Enter the **Designation Name**. It is the only required field, and it is what appears on every employee holding it.
- Write a **Description**. It is optional and worth doing, because nothing else on the list separates two titles that sound alike.
- Select **Save**. The title becomes available immediately, with no employees against it until you assign some.

> **Tip:**
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> **The list beside the panel is the point**
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> Keeping the existing titles on screen while you add one is what stops a second Workshop Technician appearing as Workshop Engineer. Read the list before you type.

## Naming that stays useful

| Do | Rather than | Because |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Warehouse Operative | Warehouse Operative (Nights) | Shift pattern belongs to the shift, not the job title. |
| Field Service Engineer | Field Service Engineer, Glasgow | Location belongs to the work location, and the person can move. |
| Workshop Technician | Senior Workshop Technician II | Seniority that fine-grained makes the column ungroupable. |
| A description on every title | A title long enough to explain itself | The description field exists for exactly this. |

> **Note:**
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> **A new title starts empty and stays empty**
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> Saving creates the designation and nothing else. Nobody holds it until you assign it, either from this list or from each employee's record.