Since our project is for the human resources team, we need to create a few custom issue types to augment the default ones that come with Jira. For this exercise, we will create two new issue types, New Employee and Termination.

The first step, that is, setting up an issue type association, is to create the two issue types that we need, New Employee and Termination:

1. Browse to the Issue Types page
2. Click on the Add Issue Type button
3. Type New Employee in the Name field
4. Click on the Add button to create the new issue type

You should now see the new issue type in the table. Now, let's add the Termination issue type:

1. Click on the Add Issue Type button again
2. Type Termination in the Name field
3. Click on Add to create the new issue type

You should see both the New Employee and Termination issue types. However, this will only make our new issue types available—it will not make them the only options when creating a new issue for our project. As you may recall from the previous sections, we need to add the new issue types to the issue type scheme that's used by our project.