Question setup

Administrators, recruiter administrators, and recruiters can define questions for screening candidates in job applications and online interviews. Administrators, recruiter administrators, and recruiters can define profile questions that candidates for all positions can answer. Recruiters can define conditional questions that are follow-up questions to Yes No questions and view candidate responses to requirement questions.

Individual questions and sets of questions are added to a requisition.

To screen candidates that meet the minimum or exceed requirements of a position, administrators can enable and configure requirement questions to their organization. They can set up the requirement questions to a requisition and question catalog.

See Configuring Talent Acquisition organization parameters and Defining recruiting questions.

Administrators, recruiter administrators, and recruiters can attach the recruiting questions that are defined in the question catalog to job requisitions. Recruiters can create a question directly and set up multi-select questions on a requisition. If the question is created directly on the requisition, then they are not displayed in the question catalog.

See Adding questions from the question catalog to a requisition.

When defining a question, you must select one of these response types:
  • Short Text
  • Long Text
  • Yes No
  • Yes No with Text
  • Date
  • Numeric
  • Amount
  • List
  • Multi Select

Yes No, Yes No Text, and List responses are used in screen out questions. Screen out questions require the candidate to specify the preferred answer. If a candidate specifies the wrong answer, then the candidate is disqualified.

Administrators and recruiters can select the Multi Select response type to specify multiple candidate responses. They can specify up to 30 responses. The responses are displayed to the candidate in the order that they are specified. Questions with a Multi Select response type are assigned a score that recruiters can edit. If the score value is changed or if a scored response is added to a requisition after the candidate completes the questions, then the score of the question that was changed and the total score is reassessed. Changes to score values are not retroactive, but recruiters can update the questions on in-progress requisitions.