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Job Application · Next.js
Careers-page form with role, resume URL, and cover letter. Free for 500 submissions per month — no backend, no SDK, no plugin.

Copy-paste code
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with your splitforms key, paste into a Next.js page, and ship. No build-time integration required.
'use client';
import { useState, type FormEvent } from 'react';
export default function JobForm() {
const [status, setStatus] = useState<'idle' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'error'>('idle');
async function onSubmit(e: FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
e.preventDefault();
setStatus('sending');
const data = new FormData(e.currentTarget);
data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
data.set('subject', 'New job application');
const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
method: 'POST',
body: data,
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
});
const json = await res.json();
if (json.success && json.payment_url) {
// Payment form: finish the payment on the secure Stripe page.
window.location.href = json.payment_url;
return;
}
setStatus(json.success ? 'sent' : 'error');
if (json.success) e.currentTarget.reset();
}
if (status === 'sent') return <p>Thanks — we’ll be in touch.</p>;
return (
<form onSubmit={onSubmit}>
<label htmlFor="name">Full name *</label>
<input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required />
<label htmlFor="email">Email *</label>
<input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required />
<label htmlFor="role">Position you're applying for *</label>
<select id="role" name="role" required>
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>Engineering</option>
<option>Design</option>
<option>Marketing</option>
<option>Sales</option>
<option>Operations</option>
<option>Other</option>
</select>
<label htmlFor="linkedin">LinkedIn / portfolio URL</label>
<input id="linkedin" type="url" name="linkedin" placeholder="https://linkedin.com/in/janebuilder" />
<label htmlFor="resume_url">Resume URL</label>
<input id="resume_url" type="url" name="resume_url" placeholder="https://..." />
<label htmlFor="cover_letter">Cover letter *</label>
<textarea id="cover_letter" name="cover_letter" placeholder="Why this role, why us." required />
<button type="submit" disabled={status === 'sending'}>
{status === 'sending' ? 'Sending…' : 'Send'}
</button>
{status === 'error' && <p>Something went wrong. Try again.</p>}
</form>
);
}Next.js + Job Application
Next.js Server Actions handle the submit side but still leave you wiring SMTP, spam filtering, file uploads, and a dashboard. splitforms replaces all of that with one fetch('/api/submit') call. The job application works identically in App Router and Pages Router — it's just a FormData POST, no router-specific magic. Because Next.js pre-renders pages, the form HTML is in the DOM before any JavaScript executes, meaning instant Time-to-Interactive. The honeypot field is invisible to users but catches bots that scrape rendered HTML — especially important for Next.js sites where the form HTML is statically generated and predictable.

Job Application fields
The posted payload contains full name, email, position you're applying for, linkedin / portfolio url, resume url, cover letter. Required fields are full name, email, position you're applying for and cover letter. Rename, remove, or add your own — splitforms accepts any name you POST.

Template playbook
ATS subscriptions (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable) start at $6-15k/year for a small team — a lot of money for a startup that hires 2 engineers a year. A self-hosted application form on the careers page handles the inbound flow. The form captures name, email, role applying for, resume (PDF upload, often required), LinkedIn / portfolio URL, and a brief 'why us' textarea. The submission lands in the hiring manager's inbox or webhooks into Notion / Airtable / a Slack channel for triage. As soon as you're past 5 simultaneous open roles, an ATS pays off — until then, this works.

Setup
Three actions stand between you and your first job application submission — no backend, no database, no CAPTCHA library.
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Common questions
Yes. The form is plain HTML with a single POST endpoint, so it runs on any Next.js site without server-side code, plugins, or SDKs. Drop the snippet into a Next.js page or component and submissions land in your splitforms dashboard.
Free for 500 submissions per month — no credit card, no trial. Pro is $5/mo for 5,000 submissions, and there's a one-time $59 3-year plan (15,000 submissions/mo for 36 months). The same pricing applies regardless of which framework hosts the form.
Yes. The template ships with sensible defaults (full name, email, position you're applying for, linkedin / portfolio url…) — add, remove, or rename any of them. Splitforms accepts whatever fields you POST.
A hidden honeypot field catches dumb bots, and a tuned classifier scores the rest. You only see real submissions in your dashboard. No CAPTCHA, no friction for human users — and it works the same on Next.js as on any other framework.
Yes. Webhooks are available on paid plans, with auto-formatted payloads for Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp (via CallMeBot). Or send raw signed JSON to any URL — Zapier, n8n, your own server. Configure in the splitforms dashboard.
Yes — the form posts directly to splitforms from the browser, so no server is involved. Works on Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or any plain Apache host.
If you're under the regulated thresholds (15 employees for most EEOC requirements; federal contractor for OFCCP), basic forms are fine. If you're regulated, you need to collect voluntary self-ID demographics on a separate page (race, gender, veteran, disability) with explicit non-discrimination language. Your employment lawyer should review the final flow.
Hidden honeypot field plus splitforms' spam classifier catches most. For persistent agency spam, add a 'are you applying directly or through an agency?' radio — direct applications get the role-specific reply; agency applications get a 'we don't accept third-party submissions' auto-response.
For senior or specialised roles, yes — quality goes up with the friction. For volume hiring (support, ops, junior eng), no — required cover letters drop application count 60-80% and the cover-letter quality is mostly noise anyway. Tune by role.
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