A general employment application form for hourly, shift and seasonal roles. Sixteen questions cover contact details, the position, the days and shifts someone can work, eligibility, work history, education, references, an optional resume and a closing declaration. Clone it, add your positions, publish the link.
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Questions, all editable
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Logic rules pre-built
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What's inside
One question at a time, on a phone as easily as a laptop. Here is question 7, where applicants pick every day they can work.
7 →
Choose every day that works for you.
Applicants tap each day that works, then Next. See how conversational forms behave.
The full question list
Question 11 only appears for driving roles. A Thank You screen, pinned after question 16, can redirect to your careers page. Swap in any other question type or drag the order around.
Pick the right form
Both are free Upform templates. This one is the general form for volume and shift hiring. The job application form template is shorter and leans on the CV, for salaried roles.
| At a glance | Employment application form | Job application form |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Hourly, shift and seasonal hiring, often several positions at once | Salaried and specialist roles |
| What screens applicants | Days, shifts, start date and eligibility | Right to work, years of experience and a written answer |
| Work history and references | Asked in the form | Left to the CV and the interview |
| Resume | Optional upload | CV upload at question 8 |
| Last question | A Yes/No declaration | Where they heard about the role |
Hiring at volume? The recruitment forms page covers screening with logic, resume uploads and where applications land.
Before you publish
An employment application puts every applicant's answers in the same order, so a store manager can compare forty people for a weekend shift in one table. That only works if the form asks for what you will use and nothing else.
Name, email and phone number are enough to reach someone. For location, question 4 uses the Address type with only city, state and ZIP switched on: enough to judge the commute, without a street address you will not need until payroll.
For shift work, when someone can work matters more than where they worked. Questions 7 and 8 are Multiple Choice, so applicants pick every day and shift, and question 9 takes the earliest start date. With the kind of work they want (full-time, part-time or seasonal), that is enough to build a shortlist from a CSV export.
Ask whether someone is legally eligible to work in the country, not their citizenship or nationality. Document checks come later: in the US, the Form I-9 is completed after a job offer is accepted.
A dozen fields per past job is too much to type on a phone. Question 12 asks for the last three jobs in one Long Text answer, with a help line listing employer, job title, dates and reason for leaving. Education is one choice of the highest level completed; delete it if the role has no requirement. References are a second Long Text asking for two names and a phone number or email, with a note that you only call them after an interview.
Plenty of good hourly applicants do not keep a resume, and fewer have one on their phone. The template's file upload question is optional and accepts PDF, PNG and JPG up to 10 MB, so a phone photo of a printed resume works too. The free plan's 100 MB holds a few hundred PDF resumes, fewer if most arrive as photos.
Lawful and lean
Asking creates risk even if you never read the answer, and every sensitive detail you collect is one more thing to store, protect and delete on request.
General guidance, not legal advice: rules differ by country, state and city. For the data side, see our notes on GDPR-compliant forms.
Question 16
Paper employment applications usually end with a signature line. Upform has no signature field, so the template closes with a required Yes/No question asking the applicant to confirm their answers are true and complete.
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Answer Yes if everything is correct. If anything needs fixing, go back first.
Already wired in
Two rules ship switched on. Each is a set of AND/OR conditions with one of four actions: show, hide, jump or end form.
If question 10 comes back as No, the form saves the answers so far and ends, instead of asking for a work history you cannot use. Sponsor visas or hire abroad? Switch the rule off.
Question 11 stays hidden unless the position picked at question 5 is Delivery driver. Everyone else goes straight from eligibility to work history.
Change either rule or add your own; every operator is listed on the conditional logic page.
After the submit
Every application lands in your responses table first. Then send it onward.
Google SheetsOne row per applicant, ready to sort
SlackPosts each application to a hiring channel
monday.comAdds an item to your hiring board
NotionCreates a row in a database you share
n8nSigned webhook into any workflow
Custom webhookPOST the payload to your own ATSEach one connects with your own account. To take applications on your careers page instead of a link, embed the form with one iframe snippet. Every destination is on the integrations page.
Four more forms from the same free library, all clonable in one click.
Which role are you applying for?
The shorter form for salaried roles, with a CV upload.
HR · HiringWhich areas would you like to help with?
Sign-ups with availability, skills and an emergency contact.
NonprofitHow well did you meet your goals?
Self-review and manager review on one link.
HRDo you have what you need to do your job?
A pulse check with ratings and open comments.
HRYes, and it stays free. Cloning, publishing and collecting applications all run on the Upform free plan: unlimited forms and responses, all 21 question types, logic and every integration, with 100 MB of file storage and a small Upform mark. Pro is $12 a month and removes the mark, lifts the storage limit and adds up to five team members.
An employment application is the general form for hourly, shift and seasonal hiring. It asks every applicant for availability, eligibility, work history, education and references in the same order, and ends with a declaration. A job application form is shorter and suits salaried roles, with a CV upload and a written answer. Upform has a free template for each.
Not with a signature. Upform has no signature field, so the template ends with a required Yes/No declaration that the answers are true and complete, saved with the submission date. If you need a legally binding signature, for example on an offer letter, collect it at that stage with an e-signature tool.
Usually not. Both add discrimination and data protection risk, and neither helps you decide who to interview. If a role has a legal minimum age, ask a Yes/No question about meeting it instead, and collect ID numbers at hire through payroll. Rules differ by country, state and city, so check the law where you hire.
Yes. The form shows one question per screen, with full-width answer buttons and a sticky back and next bar on mobile. The resume upload is optional, which matters for applicants who do not keep a resume on their phone.
Into the responses table for that form, with search, a date filter, CSV export and a drawer showing each applicant's full set of answers. From there each application can go to Google Sheets, Slack, Notion, monday.com, a webhook or an n8n workflow, each connected with your own account.
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Clone the employment application form template, add your positions, publish the link. About ten minutes.
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