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Build an application form

Choose the questions candidates answer when they apply, and pick which form each board or job uses.

Written by Jan Alexander Jedlinski

Who can do this: Owners and Admins.

An application form is called a preset, and one preset is your company default. Every form asks for first name, last name, email and a resume. These can't be removed, because they create the candidate. Keep the rest short, because short forms get finished.

Your account starts with one preset, Default application form. It asks for a phone number (required) and comes with four sample questions: earliest start date, right to work, salary expectations and anything else. Keep, change or remove them. The resume question is labeled CV upload.

Prefer to click through it? Follow the interactive tour: it takes about a minute.

Add questions

  1. Standard application form used by Talentbird: Your details fields, Additional questions, Add question, Set as default
  2. Click the preset.

  3. Under Your details, turn Required on or off for Phone and LinkedIn URL, or remove them. These answers go onto the candidate's profile.

  4. Under Additional questions, click Add question.

  5. Pick a question from the Question library, or click New question….

    Add a question dialog with Profile fields (Phone, LinkedIn URL), Question library, Manage library and New question
  6. For a new question, enter the Question label and pick an Answer type: short or long answer, number, date, checkbox, dropdown, multiple choice or file upload.

  7. Turn Required on for questions candidates must answer.

  8. Drag the questions into the order you want.

  9. Click Save changes.

You see Application form saved. Candidates now see your questions on every board and job that uses this preset.

Public application form: Resume or LinkedIn profile, name, email, UK right-to-work question, policies, Submit application

Use the form on a board or a job

A form is used in this order: the job's form, then the board's, then the company default.

  • For a board: open the board in Settings > Jobs > Job boards, pick the preset under Application form, and click Save changes.

    Board settings: Application form Standard application, Reset to the company default link, Job appearance Company default
  • For one job: edit the job, pick the preset under Options > Application form, and click Save changes.

Send the answers to Bullhorn

Using Bullhorn? Each form has a Bullhorn field mapping section that decides which Bullhorn field each answer fills. See Map application answers to Bullhorn fields.

Form Bullhorn field mapping: First name, Last name, Email, CV fields mapped to Bullhorn candidate fields, with update rules

Good to know

  • To make another form, click New preset. To make a preset the company default, open it and click Set as default.

  • Questions you create are saved to your Question library. Editing one there changes it on every preset that uses it.

  • Candidates always tick two consent boxes: your terms and privacy policy, and data processing. The links come from the board's Legal settings.

  • Candidates upload a resume as PDF, DOC or DOCX, up to 10 MB, or use the LinkedIn profile tab to upload the PDF of their LinkedIn profile.

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