Volunteer Impact administrators will have 3 volunteers applications to work with in their account. How you use these application will depend on your organization and onboarding processes. In the video and text below, we've outlined common ways in which organizations utilize these 3 applications.

One application is used by all of your applicants. In this method, all of your volunteers are prompted to answer the same questions. If you mark a questions as required, it will be required for all applicants. If you are looking to customize the application based on who is applying, you will want explore the second option listed below.

You can customize your applications to target specific groups or types of volunteers that may be applying. This method allows you to customize the questions asked of each group, shorten the application and ensure you are collecting all of the information you need for that type of volunteer.

A common format of this method is:

V1 - Adult application

V2 - Youth application

V3 - Group application

Your organization may have a longer, multi-step onboarding process for your volunteers. If this is the case, a multi-step approach to applications may be a good fit for you.

In this method, volunteers complete the applications in sequential order allowing to minimize the amount of information that volunteers must supply at once.

V1 may be an initial statement of interest and the collection of initial information from the volunteer. After this application is received, an administrator may review their profile or invite them in for an interview before sending them the link to fill in V2. V2 may ask for additional information that may not have been appropriate to ask on the initial statement of interest. This could be information such as references or emergency contact information.