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Job application template

One open question instead of five essays, and a follow-up that asks what the candidate personally did.

For recruiters and hiring managers.

Use this template Try it first

Free account. It copies into your dashboard as a draft you can edit.

The 7 questions

  1. 1What's your full name?Short text · required
  2. 2Your email addressEmail · required
  3. 3A link to your LinkedIn, portfolio, or GitHubShort text
  4. 4How many years of relevant experience do you have?Number · required
  5. 5Which setup are you looking for?Single choice: Remote, Hybrid, In the office, Open to any · required
  6. 6Tell us about a piece of work you're proud of. What was your part in it?Long text · required
  7. 7When could you start?Date

Why it's built this way

One open question, asked well

Long application forms get rehearsed answers. This one asks a single open question, then the follow-up presses on the part the candidate played and what came of it.

Logistics as structured fields

Work setup, experience, and start date are typed fields, so you can sort and filter the responses table before reading any essays.

No cover letter

Cover letters are the step most candidates dread and most reviewers skim. The proudest-work question gives you more signal in fewer words.

A follow-up, start to finish

Tell us about a piece of work you're proud of. What was your part in it?

I led the migration of our billing system to Stripe.
Follow-up

What was the result, and how did you know it had worked?

Failed payments went from about 6% to under 2% in two months. We tracked it in the finance dashboard.

Saved in the proudest_work column

Led billing migration to Stripe; failed payments 6% → under 2% in 2 months

Follow-ups are a Pro feature. The template ships with them off and with this guidance filled in: "Follow up on the proudest-work answer when the candidate's own contribution or the outcome is unclear. Ask what they did, not what the team did."

Apply to join the team

This takes about four minutes. There are no trick questions, and a person reads every application.

7 questions · about 2 min · it may ask a short follow-up

Answer it like a respondent would. In the preview, follow-ups come from a script; the live form writes its own.

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