Ensure excellent experiences for your candidates and future employees

Get tools that make feedback easy to gather and act on, so you can help build a world-class workforce.

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As a recruiting manager, you face the challenge of providing positive experiences for candidates throughout the recruitment process. To accomplish this, you rely on feedback and insights to inform decisions like employee benefits, staff development, and employee retention. The resources in this toolkit will help recruiting managers work smarter, not harder.

How can we give each candidate a positive experience?

  • What is the best way to evaluate the recruiting process?
  • What tools do we need to identify trends and inform change?
  • How do we better market our open positions?
  • How can we stay competitive with our salary and benefits?
  • How can we maintain consistency in training and onboarding?
  • What is the best way to share the data we collect with leadership?

How can we help our team provide great service?

  • Do our employees understand and support our DEI efforts?
  • Do we know what learning and development needs our staff have?
  • How can we turn our employees into advocates for working at the company?
  • What’s the best way to ensure my team is closing the loop with prospects?
  • How can we ensure the recruitment team is happy and satisfied at work?

Our sample survey templates make it easy for you to start collecting feedback in just minutes. Explore hundreds of questions across different survey types, all designed to get you accurate results you can rely on.

Improve your recruiting and interviewing process with candidate feedback.

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Find out if your recruiters need more training to support your company goals.

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A deep dive on equity, designed to reveal gaps in your workplace.

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Show candidates how satisfied your employees are with the benefits you offer.

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Get data to demonstrate how happy your employees are with their compensation.

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Get a head start on employee engagement by learning what makes new hires tick.

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SurveyMonkey is not only easy to use, it’s the world’s leading survey platform and powerful enough to help you measure what matters.

Features to help you accomplish goals

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The job market is constantly changing. Our features can help you pivot when you need to.

Integrations that make work easier

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Integrate your survey data with the apps you use every day.

Our most popular integrations are:

  • Zapier to connect your SurveyMonkey account with your recruiting software to streamline workflows
  • Create, distribute and digest feedback in Microsoft Teams
  • Analyze results, uncover insights and collaborate with your team in Google Sheets
  • Connect your SurveyMonkey and MailChimp accounts to streamline post-interview feedback collection

Support for when you need it

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Get the support that your team needs to launch feedback programs.

Here’s how SurveyMonkey can help:

  • We have an amazing support team - filled with product experts that help you leverage the right features to get the results you’re looking for
  • Support the way you want it - with phone, email, and live chat options for getting in touch
  • Tutorials and video demos - available within our robust Help Center for those that want to explore on their own
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Here are some common mistakes and best practices on how to avoid them.

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Looking for ways to improve your recruitment and hiring program? Here are some things you can avoid:

If you fail to set goals for your hiring team, you’re not going to provide a good, consistent experience for candidates.

Use surveys to collect feedback and measure your recruitment program. Feedback from candidates can help your company look more attractive to prospective employees.

Be aware of your DEI policies, including any differences from international branches of your company. Come to interviews prepared with data to share with prospects.

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These best practices will help you provide a great candidate experience:

Set your new employees up for success with an efficient and enticing onboarding experience.

Ensure what you ask them about their experience is neutral and unbiased. Be sure you're reaching out for feedback right after the interview, when it's still fresh in their minds.

Highlight the reasons why your company is a great place to work. Share recent news headlines, company initiatives, employee resources, and more.

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Articles

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Thought Leadership

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Ultimate Guides

How feedback can help shape the future of business.

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Momentive, the maker of SurveyMonkey, empowers organizations to gain insights from customers, employees, and the market—securely and at scale.

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We offer a suite of capabilities that can bring feedback into your native workflows.

  • Spend your time acting on data instead of analyzing it. Powerful data analysis tools help you easily identify where opportunities exist before they become problems.
  • Follow up with candidates with surveys via email or via SMS to increase response rates from candidates.
  • Consult with one of our DEI experts to measure how inclusive your recruiting efforts are.
HR toolkit: Make employee experience your competitive advantage

HR leaders can use this toolkit to help drive exceptional employee experiences.

Deliver the right workplace benefits

SurveyMonkey gives you the tools to find out how your employees feel about their benefits, so you can design the right package.

Create a better candidate experience

Understand how job candidates experience the recruiting process with SurveyMonkey.

Improve employee performance management

SurveyMonkey makes it easy to gather employee performance feedback fast so you can develop a high-performing workforce.

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