The key to GDPR compliance is driven mainly through the Engagement Hub, which reduces admin for you and gives candidates control over their rights. 

Within each candidate’s profile, you will find the Privacy | GDPR section under the Compliance tab. 

Here’s a quick overview of the fields:

To get an overview of your candidates and their Consent status, add the ‘Consent to Keep’ column using ‘Custom Columns’. 

Every interaction with your candidate is automatically logged and timestamped in the Activities tab.
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Please follow the steps below:

Candidates will be asked to accept these T&C's and Privacy Policy when they provide their information to you via the Engagement Hub by actively selecting the checkbox. 

To enable multiple languages, you will need to add the T&C's and Privacy Policy in the languages that you would like to enable. 

To allow candidates to exercise their rights to ‘Withdraw Consent’ and ‘Request to be forgotten’, make sure to toggle the feature on:

The goal here is to get your candidates to register for an account on the hub, which gives them access to the following sections and functionalities:

MY PROFILE

Your candidates will be able to update the following information within their profiles:

JOB APPLICATIONS

See all the jobs they have applied for, including:

JOB ALERTS

See a list of job alert subscriptions and ability to unsubscribe.

ONBOARDING

This is where your candidates upload the required documents for their jobs. They will be able to see the onboarding documents required of them and track their progress.

REQUEST TO BE FORGOTTEN

Candidates can request for their data to be deleted simply by clicking and confirming that they would like to be forgotten under Settings.

What happens when a candidate clicks on ‘Request to be forgotten’? 

Your candidates will be presented with the following screen to confirm their decision:

If the candidate decides to proceed with the action, the Job owner and the Candidate owner will receive the following notifications:

A new comment will be logged in the Activities tab including the note that the candidate shared:

The onus is now on you to take the appropriate follow-up actions.

WITHDRAW / GIVE CONSENT

In line with the GDPR, you need consent for every way you process candidate data. Consent needs to be granular meaning it needs to cover the various jobs you will process and use candidate's data. From the jobs applications page on the Candidate portal, candidates can easily withdraw consent per job.

What happens when a candidate clicks on ‘Withdraw consent’?

Your candidates will be presented with the following screen to confirm their decision:

If the candidate decides to proceed with the action, the Job owner and the Candidate owner will receive the following notifications:

A new comment will be logged in the Activities tab, including the note that the candidate shared:

The onus is now on you to take the appropriate follow-up actions.

To edit the email template, please follow the steps below:

What you put in your email templates is entirely up to you, depending on what you think works best for your needs and in compliance with GDPR. Here’s an example of what you can include:

For all new candidates, you can setup in the Candidate portal if you want them to create an account first before applying for a job.

There are 2 out-of-the-box reports you get related to GDPR Compliance:

For more details about GDPR for recruitment, visit our dedicated GDPR resource pages here: http://vincere.io/gdpr   http://help.vincere.io/gdpr.

If you’d like to publish your jobs on LinkedIn and have applications flow back into Vincere automatically, we recommend using one of these aggregator integrations.