A candidate experience worth rating
Send one-tap surveys over RCS across the hiring journey, so candidates and clients rate the experience from their inbox, helping you improve your candidate experience with response rates email surveys can't reach.
In-inbox surveys beat the candidate-experience emails applicants ignore.
Interview and process surveys show where candidates drop off.
Placement surveys measure how clients rate the hires you deliver.
Thanks for interviewing with us today. One tap tells us how the experience went.
A sample Recruiting & Staffing RCS survey, fully customizable.
How RCS surveys work for Recruiting & Staffing
Every candidate who goes through your process becomes a reviewer of your employer brand, and a bad interview experience gets posted publicly while a great one gets recommended to friends. Yet most firms never measure candidate experience, and an email survey sent after a rejection is dead on arrival. RCS survey templates let a recruiting firm ask candidates in the texting inbox, with one-tap answers, while the experience is still fresh — and catch a bad experience before it hurts the brand.
A candidate-experience survey lands as a tappable star rating right after an interview; a recommend-score prompt offers a one-tap 1–5 scale; a communication-quality question shows whether candidates felt kept in the loop; and a hiring-manager satisfaction survey measures the client side of every placement.
The payoff is far higher response than email surveys, fast feedback while it's fresh, and a bad candidate experience caught before it damages your reputation.
Where it pays off
A candidate-experience survey lands as a tappable star rating right after an interview.
A low score flags a frustrated candidate before they post about it.
A one-tap 1–5 prompt measures whether a candidate would recommend the process.
A client survey measures the other side of every placement.
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Sign up to use these survey templatesRecruiting & Staffing RCS surveys: common questions
- When should a recruiting firm send a survey over RCS?
- Right after an interview or at the close of a process, while the candidate's impression is fresh — and to hiring managers after a placement. A tappable candidate-experience survey sent in the moment gets far higher response than an email survey a rejected candidate never opens.
- Why do RCS surveys beat email and SMS surveys for recruiters?
- Candidates already ignore recruiter emails, so an email survey is dead on arrival. RCS surveys land in the texting inbox candidates actually check, with one-tap star ratings and 1–5 scales, so completion is far higher — and they come from a verified, branded sender candidates recognize.
- Can candidate-experience surveys be anonymous?
- Yes. You can offer an optional anonymous survey so candidates give honest feedback on the interview and communication without worrying it affects their candidacy, and every survey follows opt-in and STOP rules.
- What can a recruiting firm field with these survey templates?
- Candidate-experience surveys, recommend-score prompts, communication-quality feedback, and hiring-manager (client) satisfaction surveys — each a tappable, branded survey with live response analytics.
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