<aside> 💡 Ashby provides a way to collect questionnaires from your candidates. These can help you collect information during various stages in the application process, rather than asking questions up front in the application form. You create these questionnaires in the admin section of the app.

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Section overview:

Questionnaires overview

Ashby supports the ability to send questionnaires to applicants at any stage of the hiring process. Users can create and customize any number of questionnaires and configure how and when to collect them from candidates. Some use cases for questionnaires include

• Asking a candidate about their dietary preferences prior to an onsite lunch
• Asking a candidate for references prior to the Offer stage
• Deferring questions asked in the Application Form to later stages of the process to keep the Application Form shorter

Step 1. Set up your questionnaire

You can set up candidate experience surveys in the Admin Section of the app.

You can create new questionnaires and edit their questions in the Admin Section of the app. You can also configure Automation Settings to set up rules to automatically schedule emails with links to the questionnaires.

Step 2. Send a questionnaire

Candidate experience surveys can be sent in two different ways:

• By directly requesting surveys from the candidate profile. Toggle for more details.
• By adding a questionnaire activity to an interview plan. Toggle for more details.
• By setting up automation rules to schedule sending the questionnaire to a candidate when certain conditions are met. Toggle for more details.

Setting up automation for Questionnaire activities.

<aside> 💡 When a candidate lands in a stage with a questionnaire activity, you can now set the questionnaire request to be sent out automatically.

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