Create & edit a SEEK Screen

What does it do?

  • The SEEK Screen lets you present a list of questions to applicants up-front, to cut your filtering time in half.
  • It offers a wide range of frequently asked questions.
  • You can even write your own questions as part of a customised form.
  • It makes it easy to sort candidates based on their answers, and helps you find just the right person for your business.

Getting started

Clicking on the SEEK Screen menu shows Your SEEK Screen Forms, a summary of forms. Forms are simply a list of questions for surveying applicants.

Just as job ads can be created, stored, edited and re-posted later, a SEEK Screen is an application form that can be made separately and attached to your job ads.

Important points for using a SEEK Screen can be remembered with the aid of the acronym "SNAP":

  • Select an existing form as your starting template or create a new one
  • Name your form so you can use it again later
  • Add or remove questions from the form if required
  • Prioritise by creating filtering criteria

Step by Step

1. If this is your first time, the table will be empty, so it's time to start by creating a screen. Click on Create a Screen.



2. You'll be at the top of the SEEK Screen form home screen at Step 1: Name your Form. Each time you complete a step, information boxes on the screen will be updated to show your progress. During the process that follows, you will define your SEEK Screen piece by piece and keep returning to the SEEK Screen form home.


Give your form a name that makes it easy for you to recognise later. Make it something meaningful to you; applicants will not see this name.

In Step 2: Select questions for this application form, click Add to put questions into your form. Tick the boxes next to the questions you want to ask, and then scroll down.


3. If you want to ask a question that's not listed in the Frequently Asked Questions box, click Create in the Custom Questions box.

Otherwise, click CONTINUE to return you to the SEEK Screen form home, and then skip to Step 6.

4. On the Create a new customised question page, type your question and select an Answer Type. The type of answer can be:

  • Text – the applicant writes a short statement. It's useful for questions that are too complex to be simplified to Yes/No or Multiple Choice. Text answers are ‘non-screening'. This means there is no ‘pass' or ‘fail' and the SEEK Screen cannot filter results to this type of question.
  • Yes/No – useful for simple questions.
  • Multiple Choice – One Answer – write a list of possible answers in the Options or URL box, and the applicant must pick one.
  • Multiple Choice – Many Answers – write a list of possible answers in the Options or URL box. The applicant may select one or more answers.
  • URL – Type the URL of a web page in the Options or URL box. This link can point to a web page or image hosted on your business' website. Some examples are: a diagram, a policy statement, a PDF file, or an in-depth description of the position advertised. You may want to preface the URL with an explanation of the link, and then follow-up with a question for her/him to acknowledge having read the contents.

5. Click CONTINUE to return you to the SEEK Screen form home. The Application Form Questions box will now contain the questions you have selected or designed.


6. To see how the form will appear in your SEEK Job Ad, click on Preview Form.


You can Add, Delete or Edit questions to tweak things then press FINISH, or proceed to Step3 and use the powerful Screening function.

7. Now that you have selected your questions, it is time to set up how you would like to define correct responses to filter successful and unsuccessful candidates.

Proceed to the Screening Criteria box and click VIEW/ADD. This lists Select the appropriate options in the Application Form Questions and Application delivery options boxes.

These options allow you to filter out candidates that did not meet all your criteria. As mentioned earlier, screening is unavailable for answers to Text and URL types of questions but all other types of questions can be used as the basis for a filter.


All possible answers are listed beside the questions on your form, so now you need to tick the answers you're looking for from a "good" candidate.

In the example above, a custom question has been added to the end of the form to confirm that the applicant has followed the link presented in a URL style question, read the web page and agrees to standards for acceptable workplace behaviour. You'd place a tick in the Yes box to filter for those who have read and agreed to the statement, and leave the No box empty filter out other applicants.

8. The Application Delivery Options let you decide whether to see applications from only successful candidates who make it through your SEEK Screen filter (Option 1), or from all candidates (Option 2).

These options also let you customise your response to applicants, sending out emails to applicants who do not meet your screening criteria. You can use the Standard Email or compose your own Custom Email.

9. Pres SAVE when done and read through the Screening Confirmation information. Press BACK to change the settings or FINISH if your selected answers and options are satisfactory.

10. Having confirmed the successful creation of your SEEK Screen Form, follow the link back to the Your SEEK Screen Forms page.


It now includes a summary of your SEEK Screen Forms, including the name of form you have created.

The table can be sorted in order of Form Name, Screen Number, the date they were Created, and whether or not they are In Use by clicking on the relevant heading. To make a Copy of a form or Edit it, click on the Edit icon next to the form. Unwanted forms can be selected by checking the tick-boxes and the group removed by pressing the DELETE button. Click on the form name to show an example of the Application Form your newly created questionnaire form.