# Customise your application form

> Add your own questions to the form, choose their type and translate them.

Source: https://help.shyfter.com/en/recruitment/customise-your-application-form  
Category: Recruitment  
Updated: 2026-08-25

The application form already asks for the standard details: name, contact details, address, spoken languages, availability, CV, photo and video. You can add **your own questions** to it, the ones that save you a back and forth on every application.

This is set up in **Team → Recruitment → Configuration → Application form**. The questions you add there appear everywhere: on your careers page as well as on the form opened by a QR code.

## Add a question

Click **Add field**, then fill in:

- **Label**: what applicants see on the form.
- **Type**: Text, Paragraph, Email, Phone, Number, Dropdown, Multi-select, Checkbox, Date or File upload.
- **Options (one per line)**: only for a dropdown or a multi-select.
- **Placeholder** and **Help text**: optional, to guide the candidate.
- **Field key**: an internal identifier, invisible to candidates.

## The shortcuts

The **Add suggested** button offers common questions you can add in one click:

- "How many years of experience do you have?"
- "What is your earliest start date?"
- "Are you available to work on weekends?"

## Required, visible and order

The table shows one row per question, with two switches:

- **Required**: the candidate cannot send their application without answering it.
- **Visible**: untick to take a question off the form temporarily without deleting it.

To change the order of the questions, drag a row up or down by its handle.

## Translate your questions

Your questions are shown exactly as you write them. So that a Dutch-speaking or English-speaking candidate reads them in their own language, open the **Translations** of the question and enter the label for each language. Without a translation, the base text is displayed.

## Where to read the answers

The answers appear on the candidate record, **Overview** tab, in the **Form answers** block.

A well-chosen question replaces a phone call: ask about availability, certificates or languages at the time of the application rather than after.