Describe your open roles, shifts, and relevant experience. Makeform turns the details into a focused application candidates can complete from any device.
Route applications to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for hourly hiring
Choose a starting point, adapt the details, and send the prompt to the builder.
Audience
Servers, hosts, cooks, and dish staff
Format
Role-based application with shift availability
Prompt size
274 chars
Example form structure
Role-based application with shift availability
Name, phone, and email
Which role interests you?
Weekly shift availability
Relevant restaurant experience
Work references
Suggested routing tags
Open availability
Needs review
Interview shortlist
Ask for availability by day and time range so shift coverage is easy to compare.
Step 1
Apply
contact, role, experience, and availability
Step 2
Route
send each application to the right manager
Step 3
Review
compare consistent answers for the open shift
Step 4
Follow up
contact promising applicants for an interview
Built for hourly hiring
A structured application puts role fit, availability, and useful experience in one reviewable record.
Collect daily times, weekend options, start date, and desired hours to spot candidates who match open shifts.
Show cash-handling, equipment, or food-service questions only for relevant roles.
Send responses to the correct team, update a shared sheet, and notify its manager.
Adapt it to the workplace
Adjust the language, fields, and routing for each team or location.
Capture role preference, service experience, shift availability, and start dates.
Ask about service, cash handling, weekends, peak dates, location, and desired hours.
Collect shift choice, equipment experience, work history, start date, and reported credentials.
Organize applicants by branch and route responses to its manager.
Application workflow
Describe the job, refine the questions, and share one application link.
Provide the job title, location, shifts, relevant experience, and role-specific questions.
Require contact details, structure availability, remove distractions, and add your applicant notice.
Share it on listings, social posts, QR codes, or your careers page.
Notify the manager, organize responses, and follow up through each candidate's preferred method.
Choose a collection method
Compare how email, paper, and an online form handle hourly applicants.
Field guide
Collect the essentials managers need to match people with roles and shifts.
Candidate contact
Collect dependable contact fields and ask how the applicant prefers to be reached.
Role preference
List open roles and locations, then show follow-up questions relevant to each choice.
Weekly availability
Ask for each day's availability, shift types, earliest start date, and desired weekly hours.
Experience
Structure recent jobs and ask targeted questions. An optional resume can add context.
Screening questions
Use concise, job-related prompts about realistic situations and required qualifications.
Applicant notice
Add your privacy notice, explain data use and next steps, and review applicable hiring requirements.
Related tools
Continue from application through interviews, references, offers, and onboarding.
FAQ
Practical answers for employers replacing email attachments and paper applications.
It is an application for jobs scheduled and paid by the hour. It captures contact details, experience, preferred roles, start date, weekly availability, and shift preferences before interviews.
Include contact details, role and location preference, recent work history, relevant skills, start date, daily availability, shift preferences, and desired hours. Add resumes or references only when useful.
Use separate day and time choices. Ask about opening, closing, weekend, or overnight shifts and desired hours so managers can compare answers.
Yes. Let applicants choose a position, then show relevant follow-ups. Cashiers can see service questions while warehouse candidates see equipment questions. Everyone completes core contact and availability fields.
Yes. Share a link or embed the form on your careers page. Keep choices concise, split work history into clear fields, and test the form on a small screen.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect applications without an artificial response cap. A paid plan is available to remove the Makeform badge.
Responses arrive in Makeform and can flow to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Notify managers and organize submissions by role or location.
Usually not. Keep job-related screening and scheduling questions, remove outdated or duplicate prompts, add your privacy notice, and review requirements that apply to your organization and location.
Turn open shifts into organized applications.
