The Application Form Widget is for placing an application form on your site. It can be used for both a job-specific application and a general application, depending on the context in which you place it. If included in the Job Single template, then the application form will act as a job-specific application form: when filled in and submitted by candidates, the resulting applications will be for the job that was on the same page as the application. If placed outside the context of a single job, e.g. on the Jobs Search page, or a standalone ‘send us your CV’ style page, then the applications resulting from submitting the form won’t be for any job at all, or will be for the default job if you have one set up.
Application Form Fields
By default, the Application Form widget will display with the default fields you have set up in Matador Job’s settings. If you want to override these defaults for the widget, you can simply enter the names of the fields you wish to add.
The list of fields available by default is as follows (though more may be added by Matador extensions and/or customisations):
- name
- namePrefix
- firstName
- middleName
- lastName
- nameSuffix
- first_and_last_name (which is the same as firstName and lastName separately)
- address1
- address2
- city
- state
- zip
- phone
- mobile
- resume
- letter
- files
- message
- profile (url for website or LinkedIn)
- occupation
- companyName
Determining which of these fields is required to submit the form is managed elsewhere in Matador settings, see this article for more information (LINK to default required fields filter doc).
Styling the Form
The Application Form widget also has many options that enable you to style the form as you wish. These options fall into two categories:
- Overall Styles – these apply to the application form container/wrapper. E.g. giving the entire form a specific background colour would be done using the container style setting that sets the background colour.
- Input-type specific styles – these apply to inputs of a specific type within the form. E.g. make all the checkboxes green.
One important style setting that falls outside of these two categories is setting the layout. By default the application form fields will be stacked on top of each other in a single column. Should you wish to have an application form layout with several columns, you will need to set the layout type to ‘Grid’.