Chasing candidates over email for basic information
You send a list of pre-screening questions over email. Half don't reply. The other half answer in different formats. You spend more time following up than evaluating.
Ask The Right Questions Before The Interview Even Starts
Before you spend time interviewing someone, you need answers. SkillSauce Surveys lets you send pre-screening questions, hiring questionnaires, or role-specific forms to every candidate — structured, personalised, and tracked in one place.
Used by 232+ Teams
- No credit card required for free trial
- All type of assessment available
320k+
Pre-built questions to pull from
3 Min
Average time to build and send a survey
2
Question formats - MCQ and Essay
232+
Hiring teams using SkillSauce today
You're losing good candidates to a broken pre-screening process.
Most teams ask pre-screening questions over email, one by one, with no structure and no tracking. It's slow, inconsistent, and impossible to scale.
No consistency — every candidate gets asked something different
Different recruiters ask different questions for the same role. You end up with answers you can't compare and decisions you can't defend.
No control over when candidates respond
Without a time-windowed link, candidates answer whenever they feel like it — sometimes days after you needed the information, sometimes never.
Without SkillSauce Surveys
- Pre-screening questions sent over email — inconsistent, untracked
- No structured format — every candidate responds differently
- No time-window control — candidates respond at any time
- No per-candidate tracking — you chase via email
- Responses scattered across inboxes, sheets, and drives
With SkillSauce Surveys
- Send structured surveys and pre-screening forms to every candidate
- Personalised invites with time-windowed access links
- Live per-candidate status — Pending, Attempted, Complete
- Resume auto-fill to pre-populate candidate details
- Central dashboard — all surveys, all candidates, one view
From blank survey to candidate responses in three steps
No developer needed. No third-party tools. Build your survey, send it, and track responses — all inside SkillSauce.
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Build your survey
Use sections, MCQ and essay items, branding, and instructions in a hiring-focused builder.
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Invite your candidates — your way
Send personalised emails with Quick Pills, time-bound links, or bulk invites from groups.
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Track every response in real-time
Monitor completion, timelines, and exports from a central Surveys dashboard.
Structure your questions exactly the way you need them
Whether it's three pre-screening questions or a detailed role-specific questionnaire — build it in minutes, not hours.
MCQ for quick, comparable answers
Multiple choice questions that let you collect structured, consistent responses across every candidate. Easy to compare, easy to filter.
Multiple sections per survey
Organise questions by topic or stage — background questions in one section, role-specific questions in another. Candidates get a clear, structured experience rather than a wall of unrelated questions.
Essay for open-ended responses
Let candidates explain their thinking, share their experience, or answer situational questions in their own words — where a tick-box isn't enough.
Pull from 320k+ pre-built questions or write your own
Use human-researched, pre-built questions from SkillSauce's library as a starting point — or write entirely custom questions specific to your role and hiring stage.
Send personalised survey links with time-controlled access.
Every candidate gets the right link, at the right time, with the right context — automatically.
Resume auto-fill for zero manual entry
Drag and drop a resume into the invite screen — SkillSauce automatically parses and fills in the candidate's name, email, and profile details. No retyping.
Bulk send from candidate groups
Already have candidates in your SkillSauce ATS? Add the entire group to a survey in one click. Individual invites and bulk sends both supported.
Dynamic email personalisation with Quick Pills
The invite email editor lets you insert dynamic tokens — Candidate Name, Job Title, Company, Duration, Deadline, and the Access Link — that populate automatically for every recipient. One template, fully personalised at scale.
Precise time-window access links
Set a start date and end date for each candidate's link. The survey becomes accessible at exactly the right time and locks automatically when it expires — so you control exactly when candidates respond.
See exactly where every candidate stands.
No spreadsheet updates, no email chasing. Your dashboard shows everything — the moment it changes.
Survey-level progress bar
Shareable survey links
Per-candidate status breakdown
Search, filter, and paginate at scale
Built for Responsible and Efficient Hiring
Traditional hiring processes often involve multiple in-person interviews and fragmented evaluation workflows that increase operational overhead and resource usage.
With SkillSauce, organizations can:
- Conduct remote skill assessments and AI-led interviews, reducing the need for in-person evaluation processes
- Replace paper-based or physical testing infrastructure with fully digital assessments
- Improve role fit through structured, skills-based evaluation, reducing repeat hiring cycles
- Maintain consistent, data-driven hiring decisions across teams and departments
- Helping teams evaluate candidates efficiently while minimizing unnecessary operational waste.
Capability Over Credentials
By focusing on capability and context rather than surface-level credentials, SkillSauce ATS helps teams build stronger, more resilient workforces over time.
Bias Reduction
85%
Hiring Consistency
92%
Role Fit Accuracy
78%
Workforce Resilience
88%
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SkillSauce Surveys actually for?
SkillSauce Surveys is a candidate survey and pre-screening tool built for hiring teams. It lets you send structured forms and questionnaires to candidates at any stage of your pipeline — pre-screening questions before the interview, role-specific questionnaires for shortlisting, or any other hiring-related information you need to collect. Think of it as a hiring-native survey tool — built around candidate management, time-windowed access, and real-time tracking rather than generic data collection.
Can I use both MCQ and Essay questions in the same survey?
Yes — and you can mix them within the same section or keep them separate. MCQ questions collect structured, comparable answers quickly. Essay questions give candidates space to explain their thinking, describe their experience, or answer situational questions in their own words. Most teams use both in the same survey.
What does "time-windowed access link" actually mean?
When you invite a candidate, you set a start date and an end date for their access link. Before the start date, the link does nothing. After the end date, the link expires. Between those two dates, the candidate can access and complete the survey. This means you control exactly when candidates respond — essential for fair, consistent pre-screening windows.
How do Quick Pills work in the invite email?
Quick Pills are dynamic content tokens you insert into your email template. When you add the "Candidate's Name" pill, it automatically fills in each candidate's actual name when the email sends. The same works for Job Title, Company Name, Duration, Deadline, and the Access Link. You write one email template and it personalises automatically for every person in your invite list — including bulk sends.
Can I bulk invite candidates from my existing ATS pipeline?
Yes. If you have a candidate group already set up in SkillSauce's ATS, you can add the entire group to a survey invite in one click via the "Add From Candidate Group" button. Individual invites are also supported — or you can mix both.
What plans include the Surveys feature?
SkillSauce Surveys is available on all plans, including the Free Trial which includes 10 surveys. The Free Trial gives you full access to the builder, invite flow, and dashboard so you can evaluate the complete feature before committing to a paid plan. No credit card required.