Recruitment Advice

Whilst we are seeing an increase in online recruitment activity, candidates are putting themselves at risk of identity theft.

Those who submit their C.V onto job boards and online recruitment searches when looking for new jobs are putting their personal data at risk.

Most employers have access to job boards and the selling point to the online boards is, that as a employer you can have access to a database of C.V’s. You can go through the C.V’s and pick those you would like to approach for filling your job role. When looking through the data base you have access to whatever the individual has submitted on to the site.

The data you put on your C.V is at risk and can be used by fraudsters across the world. Protecting your personal data is important.

A recent virtual criminology report done by McAfee revealed that at least 120 countries around the world are exploiting the Internet and looking for personal data.