GDPR Articles for the recruitment

Recruitment requires to comply with article 5 GDPR which applies to all data processing.

First of all, you must inform individuals about data processing with a privacy notice. The purposes of processing can be seen in recruitment and the legal ground of processing can be either consent (if you collect consent from candidates) or contract (where the prenegotiated phase is included).

You should also determine the data retention policy determining how long will you keep data (CVs, and other personal information) from candidates and keep track of consent giving the chance to candidates to modify the provided data.

You can find more information in this article:

• How the GDPR could impact your HR department: https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/blog/2018/02/22/how-the-gdpr-could-impact-your-hr-department/
• Is consent needed? Six legal bases to process data according to GDPR: https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/knowledgebase/is-consent-needed-six-legal-bases-to-process-data-according-to-gdpr/

You can also find some useful information in our free training EU GDPR Foundations course: https://advisera.com/training/eu-gdpr-foundations-course//

Here you can find our template of Employee data protection policy: https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/documentation/employee-personal-data-protection-policy/