The application form

Every application asks for a first name, last name and email, and the candidate agrees to your privacy notice. Everything else is up to you.

Your organisation's form and each job's form

Application form in the sidebar is your organisation's form. Every new job gets a copy of it, so changing it later doesn't change jobs you already have. Each job has its own copy on its Application form tab, where changes only change that job. Admins change the organisation's form; recruiters change a job's form.

Standard questions

Set each one to Required, Optional or Off:

• CV: a PDF or Word file up to 10 MB. On the apply form, the CV also fills in name, email and phone.
• Phone, Cover letter, LinkedIn or portfolio, Where they live, Salary expectation and Earliest start date.

Careers Orbit translates the standard questions for you. Ask only what you need to decide who to meet. Most people apply on a phone, and every required field loses a few of them.

Your own questions

Choose Add a question and pick the kind of answer: short or long text, choose one, choose several, yes or no, a file, a date or a number. Write the question, and help text if it needs it, in your main language. To translate the questions and choices, choose a language in the picker at the top. Turn on Must be answered if it is required. Drag questions to change their order. The preview next to each question shows what candidates see. A form can have up to 40 questions of your own.

Add “Allowed to work here?” adds a required yes or no question, Are you allowed to work in the country of this job?, with No already flagged.

Flagging answers

For yes or no and choice questions, you can flag answers that don't fit the job, such as No to "Do you hold a valid first aid certificate?" for a mountain guide. A flagged answer marks the application for the hiring team. It never rejects anyone: a person always decides, as the EU rules on automated decisions expect. Candidates don't see which answers you flag.