Step 1: Overview

Fountain is a high-volume hiring ATS. Ferretly provides an integration so partners with active Ferretly subscriptions can order social media reports and receive results through Fountain.

This guide covers adding a Ferretly stage, collecting the right candidate fields, and testing the flow.

Learn more about Fountain: Fountain.com.

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Step 2: Prerequisites

  • Active Ferretly account, credits, and API key

  • Active Fountain account with permission to edit workflows and custom fields

  • Ability to ask Fountain to expose custom attributes for your organization (support@fountain.com)

  • Ferretly confirms the Fountain integration is available for your account

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Step 3: Add Ferretly stage to workflow

Add a new stage in Fountain for Ferretly as part of your hiring workflow.

Follow Fountain’s documentation for adding stages:

Fountain: Add Stages

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Step 4: Add data collection fields

To capture social media profiles and identifiers for identity resolution, add custom fields in Fountain. Candidates typically answer these through Fountain’s questionnaire.

Question (suggested)

Field name (Fountain)

Type

Ferretly property

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Full name

name

short answer

Name

What is your address

ferretly_address

address

Address

What is your date of birth

ferretly_date_of_birth

datepicker

Age/DOB

What is your phone number

normalized_phone_number

short answer

Phone number

What is your citizenship

ferretly_citizenship

dropdown

Tag

What is your gender

ferretly_gender

dropdown

Tag

What is your first language

ferretly_first_language

short answer

Tag

What school did you attend

ferretly_education

short answer

High school

What is your current or previous employer

ferretly_previous_work

short answer

Company

What is your LinkedIn profile (URL)

ferretly_linkedin_url

short answer

LinkedIn URL

What is your Facebook profile (URL)

ferretly_facebook_url

short answer

Facebook URL

What is your Instagram profile (URL)

ferretly_instagram_url

short answer

Instagram URL

What is your Twitter/X profile (URL)

ferretly_twitter_url

short answer

Twitter URL

What is your TikTok profile (URL)

ferretly_tiktok_url

short answer

TikTok URL

What is your Reddit profile (URL)

ferretly_reddit_url

short answer

Reddit URL

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