Describe the role and evidence you need. Makeform builds an application with resume and sample uploads, experience questions, availability, and consistent screening fields.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Writers applying to a full-service creative agency
Format
Application with uploads and channel experience
Prompt size
270 chars
Example form structure
Application with uploads and channel experience
Name, email, location, and portfolio URL
Resume and writing samples
Which channels have you written for?
Describe your contribution to one sample
Start date and salary expectations
Suggested routing tags
Portfolio review
Shortlist
Follow-up needed
Ask applicants to identify their contribution because published work often reflects several collaborators.
Step 1
Apply
resume, portfolio, samples, and experience
Step 2
Screen
required evidence and role fit reviewed
Step 3
Shortlist
strong candidates routed to the hiring team
Step 4
Interview
context preserved for the next conversation
Better portfolio screening
Place every resume, sample, and screening answer in one structure so reviewers can compare relevant evidence.
Collect files with the audience, channel, goal, and applicant's contribution.
Reveal deeper questions when applicants select a relevant specialty.
Give every reviewer the same structured record before interviews.
Adapt the application
Choose the closest role, then match samples and questions to the work.
Screen for range across web, email, ads, scripts, and client voices.
Ask about research, briefs, search intent, CMS tools, and editing.
Focus on messaging, voice, campaigns, presentations, and creative collaboration.
Capture rates, capacity, time zone, turnaround, and specialty.
Application workflow
Build the form around the position, publish one application link, and route complete candidate records to the people responsible for screening.
Specify seniority, channels, client mix, work arrangement, and sample formats.
Require essential uploads and add specialty-based follow-ups.
Share one link and route submissions to your hiring workflow.
Compare the same evidence for every applicant and shortlist candidates.
Form vs inbox vs generic template
A tailored form connects each sample to the role and keeps submissions reviewable.
Field guide
Use these six sections to collect existing work, relevant experience, and practical fit.
Candidate basics
Collect the details needed to contact and route the applicant. Keep demographic questions separate from portfolio scoring.
Resume & background
Pair a resume upload with structured questions that surface experience relevant to the opening.
Portfolio & samples
Specify sample types, accept links or uploads, and allow notes for passwords or credits.
Skills & specialties
Use structured selections for filtering, then ask how candidates approach the role's most important capability.
Process & collaboration
Ask how candidates use briefs, handle feedback, verify facts, and work with creative partners.
Availability & logistics
Close with scheduling and role logistics, phrased according to your hiring policy.
Related tools
Pair the application with general recruiting, interview, content-submission, and role-planning forms already available in Makeform.
A closely related application flow for editorial and long-form content roles.
Open toolStart with a broader employment application and adapt it to another opening.
Open toolGive interviewers a consistent place to record role-specific feedback.
Open toolCollect availability and coordinate the next step for shortlisted candidates.
Open toolCollect drafts, assets, links, and supporting notes through a structured intake.
Open toolDefine audiences, deliverables, messages, and review details before creative work begins.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for agencies creating a clearer application and portfolio-review process.
It collects a candidate's contact details, resume, portfolio, writing samples, relevant experience, availability, and screening answers in one structured record.
Include contact details, location, resume, portfolio, relevant samples, experience, channels, industries, collaboration or research questions, work preference, availability, and role logistics.
Request two or three samples in formats relevant to the opening, and ask applicants to explain their contribution to each finished piece.
Yes. Add file uploads for documents, URL fields for published work, and a notes field for passwords, credits, or context.
Existing work and concise process questions can screen the first application. Explain any later exercise's scope, timing, evaluation, and compensation separately.
Yes. Show research questions for SEO writers, voice questions for brand writers, or rate and capacity questions for freelancers based on their selection.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. A paid tier is available only to remove the Makeform badge.
Submissions appear in your Makeform inbox and can connect to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier.
Turn the hiring brief into a focused application.
