Resume writing services exist to help jobseekers create a portrait of their skills and work experience that is compelling enough to land the job seekers interviews for desirable positions. These types of businesses tend to be small one to 35- person operations. Data privacy has arrived in this corner of the job search universe; resumes containing rich data such as work history, name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and educational history are prime treasures in the data business. [44]

Clear, conspicuous, and abundant posting of a privacy policy. Fair Information Practices dictate that privacy policies should be posted at or before data is requested of a job applicant or site visitor. And the policies should be posted at every page information is requested of a job seeker.

In any job search, it is important to circulate a resume. However, job seekers need to carefully minimize privacy issues related to resumes and personal data while still maintaining appropriate exposure to employers.

Employers are an important part of the data privacy solution. As the controller of job ads, employers have a great deal of say in how those ads are managed and displayed to applicants. For their part, college career counselors, as a critical part of the interface in a student’s first professional job search, have a key educational role in the process.

We are including only the screens from the first screen through the end of the background check and EEO compliance screens. A longer range of screens which includes a portion of the personality test is available by looking at the Sports Authority application site online.