Applications
Job application
A standard application with two open questions that do more sorting than a CV does. Keep them; they're the reason this form is better than an email address on a careers page.
- Questions
- 9
- Takes about
- 4 min
- Style
- One page
- Scoring
- None
Free, no card. It lands in your workspace as an editable draft.
Worth knowing
- The welcome screen and the intro text above the first question carry example turnaround times, policies and promises. Rewrite them as yours before you publish — they are the part respondents take literally.
- Ask about the right to work — it's the question that saves the most wasted time on both sides.
What's in it
Apply for this role
Welcome screen
What you'll need Your CV as a PDF or Word document · A link to a portfolio or profile, if…
Rich text
About you
Page break
- 1
Full name*
Short text
- 2
Your email address*
Email
- 3
Phone number
Phone
- 4
Portfolio or LinkedIn
Website
- 5
Your CV*
File upload
A couple of questions
Page break
- 6
Why this role, and why now?*
Long text
- 7
Tell us about something you've built or done that you're proud of.*
Long text
- 8
Do you have the right to work in the country this role is based in?*
Yes · No · I'd need sponsorship
Multiple choice
- 9
What's your notice period?
Available now · Two weeks · One month · Three months or more
Multiple choice
Application received
Ending
How to use this template
Open it as a draft
Press "Use this template" and it lands in your workspace as an editable form with all 9 questions already in it. No card, and nothing is published until you say so.
Cut what you do not need
Every question you remove is one fewer reason to abandon the form. It takes about 4 minutes to fill in as it stands, and that is the number worth protecting.
Add from the question bank
Pick what you are missing from the questions below. Drag any of them in, change the wording, and use conditional logic so people only see the ones that apply to them.
Share it, or put it on your own site
Publish to get a link, or embed it in a page you already have. Answers arrive in your dashboard, and you can send them on to anywhere else with a webhook or an integration.
40 job application form questions to choose from
Most application forms ask for a CV and then ask the candidate to retype it. That costs you good applicants, who have other options and limited patience, and it tells you nothing a CV would not.
Ask two or three questions a CV cannot answer. Those are the ones that actually sort an inbox, and they are at the bottom of this bank.
The basics
- What is your full name?
- What is your email address?
- What is your phone number?
- Which role are you applying for?
- Where are you based?
- Do you have the right to work in this country?
- Will you need visa sponsorship, now or in future?
- Where did you see this role advertised?
Experience and evidence
- Upload your CV.
- Upload a cover letter, if you would like to.
- Link to your portfolio, GitHub or published work.
- Link to your LinkedIn profile.
- How many years have you worked in this field?
- What is your current or most recent job title?
- What are you responsible for there?
- Which of these tools or skills have you used professionally?
Practicalities
- What is your notice period?
- When could you start?
- What are your salary expectations?
- Are you looking for full time, part time or contract?
- Would you work in the office, hybrid or remotely?
- Are you able to travel for the role?
- Do you hold a current driving licence?
- Are you applying for any other roles with us?
The questions a CV cannot answer
- Why this role, and why now?
- What drew you to us specifically?
- Tell us about something you built or fixed that you are proud of.
- Describe a time you got something badly wrong. What happened next?
- What is a widely held view in your field that you disagree with?
- What would your last manager say you need to work on?
- What do you want to be better at a year from now?
- Is there anything we have not asked that we should have?
Equal opportunities (optional and separated)
- Do you consider yourself to have a disability?
- Do you need any adjustments for the interview?
- Which age bracket are you in?
- How would you describe your gender?
- How would you describe your ethnicity?
- Prefer not to say (on every question above)
- Do you confirm these answers are kept separate from your application?
- Do you consent to us keeping your details for future roles?
Job Application form questions, answered
- What should a job application form include?
- Contact details, right to work, a CV upload, and two or three questions a CV cannot answer. Everything else is either on the CV already or can wait until you have decided to talk to them.
- How long should a job application form be?
- Ten minutes at the absolute most. Every additional question loses you candidates, and it loses the strong ones first because they have other offers and less patience.
- Should an application form ask for salary expectations?
- If you ask, publish your range too. Asking a candidate to name a number against an undisclosed band is the question most often cited as a reason for abandoning an application.
- How do I collect equal opportunities data properly?
- Put it at the end, make every question optional with a 'prefer not to say' option, and say plainly that it is separated from the application and not seen by the hiring manager.
- Can candidates upload a CV to the form?
- Yes. Add a file upload question, set the accepted formats to PDF and Word and a sensible size limit. Files arrive with the response and can be downloaded from the dashboard.
- Is this job application form template free?
- Yes. Use it, publish it and collect answers on the free plan with no card. Paid plans add things like payments, scheduling, removing our badge and your own domain, but none of them are needed to run this form.
- Do I need an account to use it?
- You need one to edit and publish, because the form has to live somewhere and the answers have to come back to you. Signing up takes about a minute and does not ask for a card. The people filling your form in never need an account.
- Can I change the questions?
- All of them. The template is a starting point, not a fixed form: add, remove, reword and reorder anything, change the look, and use logic so people only see the questions that apply to them.
- Can I put it on my own website?
- Yes. Embed it in a page you already have, or share the link. On a paid plan you can serve it from your own domain so the address says your name rather than ours.
- Where do the answers go?
- Into your dashboard, where you can read, search and export them as CSV. You can also have each response emailed to you, pushed to another tool with a webhook, or sent to a connected integration.
- How long does this form take to fill in?
- About 4 minutes as it stands, across 9 questions. Every question you cut brings that down, and shorter forms get finished more often.
Worth reading next
- 25 Job Application Form Questions Worth AskingThe questions that sort an inbox, the ones that waste everybody's time, and how to handle salary, right to work and equal opportunities.
- How to Collect Files and Documents Through a FormCVs, photographs, certificates and signed documents: size limits, file types, security, and why a required upload loses people.