We're excited to introduce a new screening question type: File upload. Now, candidates can attach work samples, portfolios, or supporting documents right from the application form. Plus: you can now customize the placeholder text on every question type.
For a lot of roles, the resume isn't enough. Designers want to show their portfolio. Writers want to share a clip. Or you just want to receive a cover letter.
File upload questions close that gap. Add one to any application form and candidates can attach what matters to their submission.
File upload questions
- New question type: Add a File upload question to any application form, just like you would a short answer or multiple choice question.
- Required or optional: Mark the question as required to block submissions without the file, or leave it optional for nice-to-have attachments.
- Available on every application: Uploaded files appear on the candidate profile alongside their resume, available to any collaborator with access to the job.
Customize question placeholders
We also shipped a small but long-requested improvement: every question type now has a customizable placeholder.
- Short answer, long answer, and number questions let you set the gray hint text candidates see in the input before they start typing.
- Guide candidates toward the answer you actually want — "e.g. Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of React" reads very differently than a blank field.
- Placeholders are editable anywhere you build a form: job application questions, internal intake forms, and custom candidate fields.
Getting started
Both improvements are live for every plan. Open any job's application form builder, and you'll see File upload in the list of question types alongside a new Placeholder field on the question types that support free-form input.