Job Application Privacy
Discussions center on privacy concerns in job recruiting platforms like Triplebyte, including risks of exposing personal information, resumes, or job search activity to employers or publicly, and debates over legality and anonymity options.
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This is like saying, I'm an employer and I want you to expose your fb profile to me so I can see the answers to all the questions it is illegal for me to ask you in your interview.
Job applications do not ask for that information. It's illegal.
It is not legal (data protection act). And my experience is the same. I tell the recruiter this and if they persist I politely end the conversation. There are enough jobs out there.
I 100% understand this issue.We do have the ability to be anonymous if you want! Also, we warn people to remove all personal info on your resume before posting.Thank you for letting us know!
Did anyone in turn ask to look at your facebook profile? Shouldn't they know who they are applying to work for?
> I'd probably be unemployableThere's no reason for any of your information to be shared with the prospective employers here, no? The flow of information here is from the employers, via Google, to you, not the other way around. Your information, plus what you type, would just filter that info down to what you actually care about.
That's an issue. I am so in favor of not providing a birthdate or picture in job applications. But then I like LinkedIn as recruiting tool, which has a picture and more often than not a birthdate... Not sure what to make of it.
I interviewed with them last year, and just got this email. There may have been some of the usual boilerplate about “publish, disseminate, or publicly perform your content in order to provide our services” somewhere (actually, I recall a surprising lack of legalese) but there was absolutely not any attention drawn to the possibility that my profile would be shown to anyone other than the companies looking at the round of candidates I was included in.
you are concerned about interviewers seeing you account when there are millions of people that who knows who they are that can see you FB profile?
It's private information by default, but here it's relevant for employment. You can refuse to give the information, of course, but they can also refuse to employ you for that.