By default, the candidate survey includes nine questions designed to gauge overall satisfaction with the candidate experience. You can use the default survey questions as-is, archive them, or add new questions. Surveys can include a maximum of 10 questions.
To ensure the survey data is reportable and easily quantifiable, all survey questions have only one answer type: Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, Strongly agree. Survey recipients also have the option to add a comment.
For help writing new survey questions, review our best practices.
Add a question
To get started, click the Configure icon , then select Candidate Survey from the left menu.
Click Edit questions.
Above the existing questions, click Add question.
Note: Survey questions you add don't have benchmarking data in the Candidate Surveys report. For more information, visit View candidate survey results.
Enter the text for your question. When finished, click Add.
When you return to the Edit survey questions page, click Save.
Archive a question
On the Candidate survey page, click Edit questions.
Hover over a question and select Archive to archive it.
Click Save. The question has been removed from the survey.
Restore an archived question
Open the Archived tab, hover over a question, and select Restore. The question moves back to the Active tab.
Note: Restoring counts toward the 10-question limit. When the survey already has 10 active questions, the Restore action is disabled.
Click Save to apply the change.
View archived survey questions
Archived survey questions are in the tab labeled Archive on the Edit survey questions page.
To see your archived questions, click Reports at the top of your Greenhouse Recruiting dashboard. From the left menu, click Essentials library.
In the section Share Progress with Executives, click Candidate Surveys.
At the bottom of the page, click View archived questions. Your archived questions will display.