For a small business, each team member plays a pivotal role in shaping its success. As a small business owner, you recognize that the essence of your enterprise lies not just in the products or services but, importantly, in the people who drive it. Hiring isn’t just a decision; it’s an investment in your business’s future.
And who better to make that investment decision than someone who knows the business inside out – like you?
Simplify your hiring process by integrating Ninja Forms into your website, allowing you to accept online job applications and resumes effortlessly. Here’s how Ninja Forms can be the growth partner your small business needs:
- Paper-Free Hiring: Say goodbye to piles of printed resumes and move to a greener, cleaner hiring method.
- Efficiency at Its Best: Organize applications systematically, ensuring you never miss out on potential talent.
- Always in the Loop: Get instant alerts with every new job application, keeping you connected in real-time.
- Share with Stakeholders: Send applications to business partners or department heads swiftly, ensuring collaborative decision-making.
- Pre-Evaluation: Screen and understand applicants before they even submit, ensuring you get the best fit.
- Assess with Ease: Rank candidates discreetly, helping you make informed hiring decisions.
Step into a new era of hiring tailored to the needs of small businesses. Explore the transformative capabilities of Ninja Forms today!
Setting up your website to accept resumes with Ninja Forms
Adding an application and resume upload form to your website is simple and straightforward. To begin, we’ll first look at exactly what you need to get started. Then, we’ll briefly demonstrate the steps to set up a basic resume form. After that, we’ll explore some automation features that help simplify your application process.
What you’ll need to start:
- Ninja Forms plugin download.
- File Uploads add-on for Ninja Forms.
How to set up a simple resume upload form:
Begin by adding an HTML field for instructions. For instance: “Please Upload Your Resume and Attached CV Here” in a <h3> format.
Add a File Upload field (ensure the File Uploads add-on is activated).
Customize restriction settings, such as renaming uploaded files, setting file size limits, and specifying acceptable file formats.
With drag-and-drop simplicity, Ninja Forms makes it easy to create customized online application forms on WordPress. Here is how the form looks with no further styling.
You’re now ready to accept applications and resumes with Ninja Forms! Now let’s learn how to automate your new application form so you can accept and organize your resumes with ease.
Automating your online application form process
This is where accepting resumes online with Ninja Forms really excels beyond what you can do with paper forms. First, let’s address these two points from earlier in the article:
- Auto-notification when a new applicant submits
- Get a copy immediately to every team member who needs to see it
Both of these are possible within the Ninja Forms actions system. Head to the Emails & Actions tab of your form builder, and you’ll see where you can create an Email action. Create one for your resume upload form, and you’ll get email notifications going out to each team member who needs to see a new application.
What if you’ve got multiple job openings and need certain resume uploads to go to specific individuals and other uploads to a different set of people? You can do that, too, using Conditional Logic to send emails conditionally to only specific parties.
How about our other ideas?
- Screen applicants prior to submission
To screen applicants before presenting them with the option to upload a resume, simply add the screening questions to the resume upload form and then use Conditional Logic to hide the file upload field unless those questions are answered satisfactorily.
- Discreetly rank the quality of an applicant.
This gets a bit more complicated, but we have a handy dandy article tutorial all ready for you. Essentially, you can assign values to the preselected responses an applicant can give to your screening questions, sum those values to give the applicant a score (that they will never see) and have the form set up to react to the applicant’s score conditionally.
That reaction could be conditionally hiding the upload field unless a certain score threshold has been reached or even sending the resume to different parties based on the range in which the score falls.
Empowering Talent Acquisition with Ninja Forms
Discover the transformative capabilities of Ninja Forms in enhancing our recruitment operations. With efficient application processes, timely alerts, and state-of-the-art applicant screening mechanisms, it’s the resource every HR professional seeks. Are you prepared to advance your talent acquisition approach? Explore Ninja Forms now.
Haven’t yet experienced the Ninja Forms difference in your business? We invite you to share any insights or innovative techniques you’ve developed. Your stories enrich our community, and we’re keen to hear from you!
