Candidate profile
Start with clear contact details.
Collect contact details, location, preferred contact method, start date, and position. Keep this section quick to complete.
- Contact and service area.
- Role and contact method.
- Start date and resume.
Describe your open caregiver roles. Makeform builds an online application for relevant experience, certifications, availability, preferences, and references.
Route caregiver applications to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a hiring scenario, edit the prompt, or send it to the builder. Tailor each example to your agency.
Audience
Candidates supporting clients in their homes
Format
Detailed application with schedule grid
Prompt size
313 chars
Example form structure
Detailed application with schedule grid
Contact details and preferred service area
Caregiving experience and tasks
Certifications and expiration dates
Availability by day and shift
Resume and references
Suggested routing tags
New applicants
Credential review
Interview ready
Ask candidates for availability by day and shift, not only whether they are available full time. Specific windows make matching easier.
Step 1
Apply
experience, credentials, preferences, and references
Step 2
Review
hiring team checks role requirements
Step 3
Match
availability aligns with open shifts
Step 4
Interview
qualified candidates move to scheduling
Why use an online application
A resume rarely shows Tuesday-night availability, travel radius, or certificate expiration dates. A structured application collects the details your coordinators need to compare candidates consistently.
Ask about care settings, client groups, responsibilities, and years of experience with checkboxes plus focused follow-ups.
Collect the credential name, issuing organization, identifier when needed, and expiration date so reviewers can spot items that need verification.
Capture days, shifts, desired hours, start date, travel radius, and short-notice preferences in fields your scheduling team can scan.
Built for agency hiring
Start with the closest hiring scenario, then replace the sample requirements with the qualifications, service area, and shifts your agency actually offers.
Focus on companionship, meal preparation, errands, light housekeeping, communication, and schedule reliability.
Ask about hands-on support experience, mobility assistance, personal care tasks, and training relevant to your open role.
Gather rotation preferences, overnight availability, assignment length, household expectations, and schedule restrictions.
Use conditional follow-ups for memory support, transfers, documentation, languages, or other skills selected by the applicant.
Application workflow
Turn your caregiver criteria into a shareable form, then route complete applications to the people responsible for screening and interviews.
Name the setting, responsibilities, required qualifications, service area, schedule, and information your reviewers need from every candidate.
Make essential questions required and add follow-ups that appear only when candidates select a skill, credential, or shift type.
Publish the link on your careers page or job listing, then notify the hiring inbox when a completed application arrives.
Send submissions to a spreadsheet or workflow, tag them by role or schedule, and invite suitable applicants to the next hiring step.
Application vs resume vs email
Caregiver resumes arrive in different formats and email applications often omit schedule details. A generated form asks every applicant the same role-specific questions.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical starting point, then align every question with your agency's role, screening process, and local hiring requirements.
Candidate profile
Collect contact details, location, preferred contact method, start date, and position. Keep this section quick to complete.
Care experience
Separate total experience from responsibilities. Use checkboxes for common tasks and a short narrative for the most relevant role.
Credentials & training
Request relevant certifications and training. Capture names and dates separately, then review the applicant's entries.
Availability
Collect exact days, time blocks, desired hours, overnight interest, and recurring restrictions instead of one general answer.
Assignment preferences
Ask about service radius, transportation, shift length, live-in interest, and tasks the candidate is prepared to perform.
References & next steps
Collect consistent references, confirm responses, and explain the next step in your agency's hiring process.
Related tools
Use dedicated forms for general applications, caregiver scheduling, interview booking, candidate records, background-check requests, and onboarding.
Create a general application for positions beyond the caregiver role.
Open toolCollect detailed availability from applicants or current caregivers.
Open toolOffer available interview times after the initial application review.
Open toolStandardize candidate profile details for your recruiting records.
Open toolGather the details your established screening workflow requires.
Open toolCollect new-hire information after a candidate accepts the role.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for home care recruiters and agency administrators building a consistent candidate intake process.
Include contact details, care experience, responsibilities, certifications with dates, weekly availability, desired hours, assignment preferences, work history, references, and a resume. Keep questions relevant to the role and your hiring process.
Offer choices for each day and shift, including evenings, overnights, and weekends. Ask about start date, desired hours, restrictions, short-notice interest, and live-in or relief work.
Yes. Add fields for credential name, issuer, issue date, and expiration date when relevant. You can request supporting files, then use your normal verification process.
Yes. Use conditional logic for live-in rotations, driving duties, or skill follow-ups, showing each question only when it applies to the selected role or experience.
Yes. Add clearly labeled file uploads for resumes and requested documents. Separate the upload fields so reviewers can identify each file quickly.
Use structured choices for shifts, skills, areas, and preferences. Reserve long answers for needed context, then route submissions by role or availability.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and receive caregiver applications without a form or response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Share the published link from job listings or embed it on your careers page. Applicants can complete the same form from a phone or computer.
Make caregiver screening easier to review.