Job Application template

A job application form template for any role: contact details with phone, the position, a lawful work-authorization question, start date, a resume or CV upload with room for a cover letter, a LinkedIn or portfolio link, relevant experience, optional salary expectations, where they heard about the role, and a recruitment privacy notice. About five minutes for the applicant, and every answer lands in one structured response instead of an inbox of loose PDFs.

Use this template Start free — no card

11 questions · Free plan: 500 responses/month · fully customizable

1 built-in logic rule
File upload question

Interactive — fill it in like a respondent would.Open full width

What’s inside

The questions this template ships with — rename, reorder, or delete any of them in the builder.

01Your contact detailsContact info

02Which position are you applying for?Dropdown

03Are you legally authorized to work in the country where this role is based?Multiple choice

04Tell us about your work authorizationLong text

05When could you start?Date

06Upload your resume or CVFile upload

07LinkedIn profile or portfolio linkWebsite

08Tell us about your most relevant experienceLong text

09What are your salary expectations?Short text

10How did you hear about this role?Multiple choice

11How we handle your applicationlegal

When to use this template

A small business posting its first proper opening and needing applications somewhere other than a shared email inbox
A company hiring for several roles at once — the position dropdown keeps every application pre-sorted
A restaurant or retail manager collecting applications by QR code taped to the front window
A hiring team in the EU or UK that wants a privacy notice and retention period on the form itself, not buried in a footer

Tips to get more from it

The work-authorization question asks whether someone is legally authorized to work where the role is based, not their citizenship or nationality. A logic rule shows a short follow-up box only to applicants who answer No, so they can explain whether they'd need sponsorship.
Fill in the bracketed placeholders in the privacy notice (company name, retention period, contact email) before you publish. The notice is a required accept step, so every stored application has a recorded acceptance next to it.
The form deliberately leaves out age, date of birth, marital status, religion, disability, criminal history and photos. Those questions invite discrimination claims and don't help you screen; add anything back only after checking your local rules.
Salary expectations is optional and asks for a range, currency and period. If you hire in a place that restricts pay questions, delete it — nothing else depends on it.

Questions people ask

Is this job application form template free?

Yes. Every question in it, including the resume upload and the logic rule, is on the free plan: unlimited forms and 500 responses a month, with no card required. Uploads on Free are capped at 10 MB per file.

What questions should a job application form ask?

Enough to screen, no more: how to reach the applicant, which role, whether they can legally work there, when they could start, a resume, and their most relevant experience. This template adds optional salary expectations, a source question and a privacy notice, and skips personal details like age or marital status that shouldn't influence a hiring decision.

Where do resumes go when a candidate applies?

Each resume (and optional cover letter) attaches to its response in your dashboard, downloadable individually, with the rest of the answers alongside. Response data exports as CSV.

Does the privacy notice make the form GDPR compliant?

It covers one piece: telling applicants what you use their data for and how long you keep it, and recording that they accepted. Compliance also depends on how you store, share and delete applications, so treat the wording as a starting point to check with whoever handles data protection for you.