The Signup forms screen lets you ask your own questions when someone creates an account on your board, separately for the two audiences: the job seeker registration form and the employer registration form. Name, email and password are always asked and cannot be removed or made optional; they are the account's identity, and a board that could toggle them off could lock itself out. Everything else is yours to define.
Open the Signup forms screen
In the sidebar, open Design and click Signup forms.
You will see two cards: Job seeker signup ("Extra questions asked when a job seeker creates an account.") and Employer signup ("Extra questions asked when an employer creates an account."). A fresh board shows "No extra questions yet." in both.
Add a question
In the card for the audience you want, click Add question.
Under Question, type the label the person will see, for example "Years of experience".
Under Answer type, pick one of six types:
Short text: a single-line answer.
Paragraph: a multi-line answer, for anything longer than a sentence.
Dropdown: the person picks one option from a list you define.
Yes / no: a simple binary choice.
Number: numeric input only.
URL: a link, for example a portfolio or LinkedIn profile.
If you chose Dropdown, an Options list appears with two empty rows. Fill them in, click Add option for more (up to 20), and use the X button to remove one (at least 2 must remain).
Turn on the Required switch if signup cannot be completed without an answer. Leave it off and the question is optional.
Click Add question. You will see a "Question added" toast and the question appears in the list with a badge for its answer type, plus a "Required" badge if you set it.
The change is live immediately: the next person who opens your board's registration form sees the new question. There is no draft or publish step here.
To see the result yourself, open your public board in a private browser window and start a registration: job seekers reach theirs through the board's Job seekers link (shown to signed-out visitors in the default header) and employers through the Employers link. Your questions appear below the fixed name, email and password fields, in the order you set.
Reorder, require, hide and delete
Each question row carries its controls inline:
Drag a row by its grip handle to reorder; questions appear on the form in this order, below the fixed identity fields.
Require / Optional toggles whether an answer is mandatory.
Hide / Show removes the question from the form without deleting it. Hidden questions stay in your list, dimmed with a "Hidden" badge, so you can bring back a seasonal question later.
The trash icon deletes the question ("Question deleted").
How answers are validated and stored
The server validates each registration against your own field list: required questions must be answered, dropdown answers must be one of your options, and number and URL types must parse. The validation rules always come from your saved configuration on the server, never from anything the visitor's browser claims, so a tampered form cannot skip a required question.
Answers are stored with the account, and each answer keeps a copy of the question's label and type at the time it was answered, so responses stay readable even if you later rename or delete the question. A failure to store answers never blocks the signup itself: the account always wins.
Tips
Every extra question costs conversions. Ask only what you will act on, and prefer optional over required for anything that is nice-to-have.
Use Dropdown instead of Short text whenever the answers are enumerable ("How did you hear about us?"): you get clean, filterable data instead of free text.
These questions cover account creation. Structured fields on job posts belong to custom fields and taxonomies instead, and candidate profiles are managed under Manage candidates.
Signed-up job seekers can then use candidate accounts features such as saved searches and applications.