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Internship Application Candidate Experience Survey

Captures how candidates experienced your internship application process — from finding the posting through interviews and final decision — with an AI follow-up that digs into the specific moment that made the experience feel smooth or frustrating. Built for HR and university recruiting teams who want to fix funnel drop-off before it costs them strong candidates.

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12 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share your experience applying for our internship program! Your honest feedback helps us make the process easier for future candidates. This should take about 4-5 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Where did you first hear about this internship opportunity?

  • University career center
  • Job board (e.g., LinkedIn, Handshake)
  • Company website
  • Friend or classmate referral
  • Career fair
  • Professor or advisor
  • Other
Q03
Multiple ChoiceRequired

How far did you get in the application process?

  • Submitted application only, no response yet
  • Submitted application, was not selected for interview
  • Interviewed, did not receive an offer
  • Interviewed and received an offer
  • Received an offer and accepted
Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired

How easy was it to complete the online application (creating an account, uploading documents, submitting)?

Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Very difficultMax:Very easy
Q05
Rating ScaleRequired

How clear was the internship posting about the role, responsibilities, and requirements before you applied?

Range: 1 – 5
Min:Not clear at allMax:Extremely clear
Q06
MatrixRequired

Rate each part of the process based on your own experience:

4 rows × 5 columns
  • Timeliness of communication after applying
  • Professionalism of interviewer(s)
  • Relevance of interview questions to the role
  • Clarity around next steps and timeline
Columns: Poor · Fair · Good · Excellent · Did not experience this
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired

How likely are you to recommend this internship program to a friend or classmate?

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q08
AI Interview

Probe the single moment in this candidate's application journey (application, interview, or communication after) that most shaped how they rated the overall process and their recommendation likelihood. Get specific: what happened, when, and how it made them feel. If they mention slow or unclear communication, ask what timeline or update would have felt reasonable. If they rated everything highly, ask what almost went wrong or could break the experience for someone else.

Q09
Long Text

Is there anything you wish we had communicated or done differently during the application process?

Q10
Multiple Choice

What is your current year of study?

  • First year
  • Second year
  • Third year
  • Fourth year or later
  • Graduate student
  • Recent graduate
  • Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice

What is your field of study?

  • Business
  • Engineering
  • Computer Science / IT
  • Sciences
  • Humanities / Liberal Arts
  • Design / Creative
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Message

That's everything — thank you for your honest feedback! Your responses will be reviewed by our recruiting team to make the application experience smoother and clearer for future candidates.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that probes the single moment in the candidate's journey (application, interview, or decision) that felt smooth or frustrating, rather than only capturing flat ratings
  • Combines quantitative measures (opinion scales, a rating question, and a matrix rating each stage of the process) with open-ended and adaptive questioning to explain the 'why' behind scores
  • Maps the full candidate journey — how they heard about the role, how far they got, ease of the online application, clarity of the posting, and likelihood to recommend — plus demographic segmentation by year and field of study
  • Automated per-response quality scoring and auto-generated reports mean HR and university recruiting teams can act on funnel drop-off insights without manually reading every response

Jotform

Create Free Internship Application Form Templates - Internship Application Form Templates

This is a library of static intake forms for collecting internship applications (resume, contact info, availability), not a post-process candidate experience survey. It's built for gathering applicant data, not for measuring how candidates felt about the process. Useful for the application step itself but a different use case than a candidate-experience feedback tool.

What it does well

  • Free to use with many customizable templates
  • Drag-and-drop form builder with file upload support for resumes/documents
  • Wide template library covering various application form variants

Where it falls short

  • Static form fields only — no adaptive AI follow-up that probes a specific candidate moment
  • Not designed to measure candidate experience or funnel drop-off, only to collect application data
  • No published methodology for question design or automated quality scoring

SurveyMonkey

Internship Application Form Template

SurveyMonkey's template is also framed as an application-intake form rather than a candidate-experience feedback survey, so it serves a different stage of the pipeline than QuestionPunk's template. It benefits from SurveyMonkey's established survey logic and reporting tools, but lacks any interview-style probing of candidate sentiment.

What it does well

  • Established survey platform with skip logic and reporting dashboards
  • Easy to distribute and collect responses at scale
  • Familiar, quick-to-deploy template for standard applicant intake

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI or voice interview to dig into why a candidate rated a stage poorly
  • Static question set — cannot dynamically follow up on a specific pain point
  • No transparent prompt methodology or automated quality scoring of responses

Typeform

Internship application form template

Typeform offers a conversational-style intake form for collecting internship applications, which shares QuestionPunk's chat-like UX but is aimed at applicant data collection rather than post-decision experience feedback. It's a well-designed front-end form, not a candidate-experience research instrument.

What it does well

  • Polished, conversational one-question-at-a-time interface
  • Strong design and branding customization options
  • Good completion rates typical of Typeform's UX

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up interview or voice AI option to probe specific candidate moments
  • Not structured to evaluate clarity of posting, funnel drop-off, or likelihood to recommend
  • No automated quality scoring or auto-generated analysis reports

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