splitforms.com
JOB APPLICATION · SVELTEKIT

Job Application for SvelteKit

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

500/mo free·no card·drop-in for SvelteKit
form.htmlhtml30 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New job application">
04
05 <label for="name">Full name *</label>
06 <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
07 <label for="email">Email *</label>
08 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
09 <label for="role">Position you're applying for *</label>
10 <select id="role" name="role" required>
11 <option value="">Choose…</option>
12 <option>Engineering</option>
13 <option>Design</option>
14 <option>Marketing</option>
15 <option>Sales</option>
16 <option>Operations</option>
17 <option>Other</option>
18 </select>
19 <label for="linkedin">LinkedIn / portfolio URL</label>
20 <input id="linkedin" type="url" name="linkedin" placeholder="https://linkedin.com/in/janebuilder">
21 <label for="resume_url">Resume URL</label>
22 <input id="resume_url" type="url" name="resume_url" placeholder="https://...">
23 <label for="cover_letter">Cover letter *</label>
24 <textarea id="cover_letter" name="cover_letter" placeholder="Why this role, why us." required></textarea>
25
26 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
27 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
28
29 <button type="submit">Send</button>
30</form>
500
submissions / mo, free
6
fields, ready to ship
5
code outputs
60s
from copy to inbox
§ 00SvelteKit + Job Applicationplatform-specific integration guide

Why SvelteKit developers choose splitforms for job application

Svelte's lightweight runtime is one of its biggest selling points — adding a heavy form library defeats the purpose. The job application on this page keeps that promise: it uses Svelte's native <code>on:submit</code> directive and a <code>fetch</code> POST, with no external dependencies. The form state lives in a simple <code>let</code> variable, not a store or a state machine. In SvelteKit, you could alternatively use a <code>+page.server.ts</code> action, but that couples your form to SvelteKit's server-side runtime — splitforms decouples it so the same form works on static hosts and other frameworks.

§ 00Quick answerHTML · hr

Yes — this is the shortest safe path for SvelteKit.

Use the HTML snippet on this page, keep the job application fields visible in your SvelteKit UI, and let splitforms handle delivery, spam filtering, storage, and webhooks.

best implementation

Paste the HTML version, then replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY.

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.

native sveltekit reality

SvelteKit's headline form story is form actions — write a default-exported actions object in +page.server.ts, and SvelteKit handles FormData parsing, progressive enhancement (use:enhance), and result passing via the form prop.

use case fit

Most career-page application forms hide behind Greenhouse / Lever, which charge $200+/month per role. For a startup hiring 1-3 roles a year, a self-hosted form with resume upload does the job.

§ 01Job Application × SvelteKitwhy this combination, in 80 words

Built for SvelteKit developers who hate operating a backend.

Splitforms is the form backend for SvelteKit sites. One POST endpoint, no SDK, no plugin — drop the job application into a page and ship.

Splitforms is the form backend for SvelteKit sites. One POST endpoint, spam filtering, and a real dashboard — drop-in, no server, no PHP. Free for 500 dashboard submissions per month; Starter adds email, signed webhooks, exports, and retained uploads; Pro is $5/mo for 5,000.

✦ what you get on the free plan
  • 500 form submissions per month
  • 2 forms on Free; unlimited forms on Pro
  • Spam protection (honeypot + classifier)
  • Webhooks: Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, custom
  • CSV export of all submissions
  • Email notifications (CC and BCC on Pro)
§ 02Copy-paste codeHTML · 30 lines

Drop into any SvelteKit project.

Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with your splitforms key, paste into a SvelteKit page, and ship. No build-time integration required.

form.htmlhtml30 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New job application">
04
05 <label for="name">Full name *</label>
06 <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
07 <label for="email">Email *</label>
08 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
09 <label for="role">Position you're applying for *</label>
10 <select id="role" name="role" required>
11 <option value="">Choose…</option>
12 <option>Engineering</option>
13 <option>Design</option>
14 <option>Marketing</option>
15 <option>Sales</option>
16 <option>Operations</option>
17 <option>Other</option>
18 </select>
19 <label for="linkedin">LinkedIn / portfolio URL</label>
20 <input id="linkedin" type="url" name="linkedin" placeholder="https://linkedin.com/in/janebuilder">
21 <label for="resume_url">Resume URL</label>
22 <input id="resume_url" type="url" name="resume_url" placeholder="https://...">
23 <label for="cover_letter">Cover letter *</label>
24 <textarea id="cover_letter" name="cover_letter" placeholder="Why this role, why us." required></textarea>
25
26 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
27 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
28
29 <button type="submit">Send</button>
30</form>
§ 03Setup3 steps · 60 seconds · zero config

Generate, embed, receive.

Three actions stand between you and your first job application submission. None of them require a backend, a database, or a CAPTCHA library.

STEP 01GENERATE

Generate a free splitforms key

Sign in at splitforms.com — your access key is created instantly. No credit card, no setup wizard, no SDK to install.

Create your form
key=sk_live_••••••••
STEP 02EMBED

Paste the job application into your SvelteKit project

Drop the form snippet into a SvelteKit page, component, or layout. Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. The form action is a hard-coded URL — no env vars or build-time wiring needed.

snippethtml
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  …
</form>
STEP 03RECEIVE

Receive submissions

Dashboard updates live on Free. Starter adds email delivery, signed webhooks, CSV export, Slack/Discord forwarding, and BCC to your team.

inbox · 1 newjust now
FROM contact@yoursite.com
New job application
Maya Iyer maya@studio71.co
Loved the demo — quick question about pricing on the 3-year plan. Are usage limits per project or account-wide?
§ 03bJob Application Form (Careers Page)template-specific playbook

The reason this job application exists.

Resume upload (Pro) · webhooks into Notion / Airtable / Greenhouse.

why it matters

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.

route the submission
01

Capture role and basics

Required: name, email, role (dropdown of open positions), resume upload (PDF/DOCX). Optional: LinkedIn URL, portfolio URL, cover-letter textarea, location / timezone.

02

Receive resume upload

Storage-backed file upload keeps the resume connected to the submission. Attachments cap at 10 MB per file; resume PDFs are usually 100-500 KB, so headroom is generous.

03

Webhook to Notion / Airtable

Push the application as a row in a Notion / Airtable database (one per role). Hiring team triages from there — moves to interview stage, archives obvious passes, comments inline. Cheaper than Greenhouse for low-volume hiring.

§ 03cSvelteKit production notesnative path · deploy · gotchas

What changes when this job application lives in SvelteKit.

These notes come from the SvelteKit platform registry and are rendered on this template page so crawlers see the framework-specific answer without opening a separate guide.

without splitforms

SvelteKit's headline form story is form actions — write a default-exported actions object in +page.server.ts, and SvelteKit handles FormData parsing, progressive enhancement (use:enhance), and result passing via the form prop. It's elegant DX — but it doesn't deliver email. You still write the SMTP integration, the spam-filter logic, the database for storing submissions, the webhook fan-out. The result is a form action that's ~80% boilerplate and ~20% your business logic. Splitforms collapses the boilerplate: the form posts directly from the browser to splitforms.com, the form action becomes a thin proxy (or you skip it entirely), and the operational layer disappears.

deploy notes

SvelteKit's adapter system is the deployment story: @sveltejs/adapter-vercel, -netlify, -cloudflare, -cloudflare-workers, -node, -static. The form's POST is cross-origin to splitforms regardless of adapter. On Cloudflare Pages/Workers (free tier: 10ms CPU per request), avoid Pattern B — the form action's fetch round-trip eats your budget; use Pattern A. On Vercel/Netlify, both patterns work with no measurable difference. $env/static/public inlines at build time (use for client-exposed keys); $env/static/private is server-only (use for Pattern B's server-action key). Domain-lock the access key.

SvelteKit gotcha

Form actions need POST and the named action prefix

If you use +page.server.ts form actions, the form's action attribute must be ?/contact (or whatever you named it) — not /api/contact. Forgetting the ?/ prefix routes to a 404 because SvelteKit doesn't recognize it as an action.

SvelteKit gotcha

use:enhance disables your client-side handler if you don't return a callback

use:enhance without arguments uses default progressive-enhancement behavior — which calls the form action and re-renders. If you need custom logic (toast on error, etc.), return a function: use:enhance={({ formData, cancel }) => async ({ result }) => …}.

SvelteKit gotcha

Cloudflare adapter has a 50ms cold start budget — fetch to splitforms eats it

If you use a SvelteKit form action that proxies to splitforms.com via fetch, the round-trip eats your CF Worker time budget on cold start. Skip the proxy: have the form POST directly to splitforms.com from the client (the snippet above does this).

SvelteKit gotcha

$env/static/public vs $env/dynamic/public — pick the right one

$env/static/public is inlined at build time (faster, but key is in the bundle). $env/dynamic/public is read at runtime (slower, but rotatable without rebuild). For the splitforms key, static is fine if you've locked the key to your domain.

PATTERN A

Pattern A — client-side fetch (skip form actions)

Pure +page.svelte with a fetch handler — no +page.server.ts needed. Simpler, works on every adapter without server CPU time, no proxying. Best for Cloudflare Workers / Pages where CPU budget matters. Use the same wiring for the job application fields on this page.

pattern-a.txtsvelte14 lines
01<script>
02 let status = "idle";
03 async function onSubmit(e) {
04 status = "loading";
05 const fd = new FormData(e.currentTarget);
06 fd.append("access_key", import.meta.env.VITE_PUBLIC_SPLITFORMS_KEY);
07 const r = await fetch("https://splitforms.com/api/submit", { method: "POST", body: fd });
08 status = (await r.json()).success ? "ok" : "err";
09 }
10</script>
11<form on:submit|preventDefault={onSubmit}>
12 <input name="email" type="email" required />
13 <button disabled={status === "loading"}>Send</button>
14</form>
PATTERN B

Pattern B — form action with use:enhance (no-JS support)

Server-side form action proxies to splitforms; key stays in $env/static/private. With use:enhance, the form posts traditionally without JS (full-page reload, splitforms 302 to /thanks) and AJAXes when JS loads. Maximum compatibility, slight CPU cost on the server. Use the same wiring for the job application fields on this page.

pattern-b.txtsvelte12 lines
01// +page.server.ts
02import { fail, redirect } from "@sveltejs/kit";
03import { SPLITFORMS_KEY } from "$env/static/private";
04export const actions = {
05 default: async ({ request }) => {
06 const fd = await request.formData();
07 fd.append("access_key", SPLITFORMS_KEY);
08 const r = await fetch("https://splitforms.com/api/submit", { method: "POST", body: fd });
09 if (!(await r.json()).success) return fail(400, { message: "Failed" });
10 throw redirect(303, "/thanks");
11 },
12};
§ 04Field-by-field rundown6 fields · names you POST

What every field actually does.

Each field below ships in the job application template — rename, remove, or add your own. Splitforms accepts any name you POST.

nameREQUIRED
TEXT

Full name

Greeting + dashboard label so submissions don't all read 'anonymous'.

placeholder · Jane Builder
emailREQUIRED
EMAIL

Email

Reply-to address — splitforms wires this so hitting reply goes back to the sender.

placeholder · jane@example.com
roleREQUIRED
SELECT

Position you're applying for

Buyer-persona signal — IC vs decision-maker changes the follow-up cadence.

EngineeringDesignMarketingSalesOperationsOther
linkedin
URL

LinkedIn / portfolio URL

Out-of-band material reviewers can open in one click.

placeholder · https://linkedin.com/in/janebuilder
resume_url
URL

Resume URL

Out-of-band material reviewers can open in one click.

placeholder · https://...
cover_letterREQUIRED
TEXTAREA

Cover letter

Free-text input — no character limit, expands as the visitor types.

placeholder · Why this role, why us.
§ 06Questions9 answered

Job Application on SvelteKitFAQ.

Direct answers, no marketing fluff. Missing one? Email hello@splitforms.com.

01Does this job application work on SvelteKit?
Yes. The form is plain HTML with a single POST endpoint, so it runs on any SvelteKit site without server-side code, plugins, or SDKs. Drop the snippet into a SvelteKit page or component and submissions land in your splitforms dashboard.
02How much does the job application cost on SvelteKit?
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.
03Can I customize the fields?
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.
04How does spam protection work on the job application?
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 SvelteKit as on any other framework.
05Can I send the job application submissions to Slack or Discord?
Yes. Webhooks are available on Starter and above, 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.
06Will it work on a static SvelteKit site?
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.
07Is this EEOC / OFCCP compliant?
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.
08How do I avoid resume-spam from staffing agencies?
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.
09Should I require a cover letter?
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.
§ 07Comparisonvs Web3Forms · vs Formspree

splitforms vs everything else.

Same drop-in API. More free submissions, Starter signed webhooks, MCP support no other backend has.

FeatureWeb3FormsFormspreesplitforms
Free monthly submissions25050500
Custom fields beyond contactYesPro tierFree
Webhooks (Slack / Discord)Pro tierPro tierFree, signed
AI / MCP submission inboxNoNoYes
Long-term plan (3-year flat)$59 every 3 years
✻ ✻ ✻

Ship a job application on SvelteKit in 60 seconds.

500 submissions per month, free forever. No credit card. Copy the snippet above and paste it into your SvelteKit project.

Get free access key →Read the docs
founders pricing locked in · early access open