Create a Prescreening Question

You create prescreening questions to ask candidates about their career goal, job preferences, knowledge, and more.

It's recommended to create folders to organize questions; one folder for disqualification questions, and one folder for prescreening questions.

Note: The following features aren't supported when you create questions: You can't add images to a question and its answers. You can't add HTML, attachments, and additional comments.

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to:
   • Offering: Recruiting and Candidate Experience
   • Functional Area: Candidate Job Applications
   • Task: Question Library
2. On the Questions page, select Recruiting in the Subscriber field.
3. Click Create.
4. On the Create Question page, enter question properties:
   • Folder: Select the folder where you want to save the question.
   • Privacy: Select Private if only you can edit the question. Select Public if anyone can edit the question.
5. Enter the question in the Question Text field.
6. You can enter instructions in the Instructions field. You can use rich text features to format the text. You can also use URL links
7. Select the question type:
   • Text
   • Single Choice
   • Multiple Choice
   • No Response
8. If you selected Single Choice or Multiple Choice, you can select the Score Question option to set a score for each answer of the question.
9. In the Question Classification field, select the type of prescreening question you want. Two options are available:
   • Prescreening Question Added Automatically: These questions are automatically added to a job requisition based on the context of the job requisition. You can't add nor remove these questions in a job requisition.
   • Prescreening Question Added by User: You can manually add these questions to a job requisition. The questions must match the context of the job requisition. You can remove these questions from the job requisition. Once there are job applications on the requisition, you can no longer add or remove questions.
10. Select the type of candidates who answer the question.
11. Select the context when the question is used: Recruiting Organizations, Recruiting Locations, Job Families, Job Functions.
12. In the Response section, select the presentation of the response. Available choices depend on the question type you selected.
13. Click Add to add the question responses.
14. Enter a score for each answer if you selected the Score Question option.
15. Set the question status to Active if you want to make the question available for selection when users create job application questionnaires.
16. Click Save and Close. The question is available in the selected folder.

What to do next

You can translate questions and the short description of the answers (text of the answers when the question offers predefined answers) without having to sign out and sign in a different language. Use the Translation Editor tool, represented by the earth logo.

When you create a prescreening question added automatically or when you change the context of a prescreening question added automatically, job requisitions using these questions are updated accordingly once the Update Job Application Questionnaire scheduled process has run.