we use your personal data
to provide our HR services, which include recruitment and selection, placement, temporary staffing, secondment, payroll, personal development, career counseling, coaching, planning, and HR and payroll administration, as further described in the Terms and Conditions (collectively "Services"). This section also applies to applicants for internal positions at Randstad.
Through extensive innovation, Randstad will fulfill its compelling vision: to support lifelong employability and deliver on our brand promise of proactivity, transparency, and guidance, to offer a truly enriching job-search experience for Talents worldwide.
The Joint controllers of the Talent register are Randstad HR Solutions and Randstad Services.
what personal data we collect about you and why we need it?
As a Talent, we collect and Process the following Personal Data about you for the purposes set out below:
purposes of processingThis data may be collected directly or indirectly from you. In the latter case, we will inform you of the purpose and sources of the data we use when we communicate with you in connection with our services (e.g., to notify you of a job opportunity), or in any event within one month from the time we indirectly obtain your data. The exception is when providing this information would involve a disproportionate effort. In that case, we may take alternative measures to protect your rights and freedoms.
Randstad may collect your data from the following sources:
- Forms you fill out and their attachments: these clearly indicate mandatory and optional data. Please note that refusing to provide mandatory data may prevent your participation in selection processes.
- Interviews and direct correspondence: this includes Personal Data collected during video calls, recorded, telephone, and in-person interviews, as well as information sent by email.
- Public social media profiles: data from your public profile may be collected for the purpose of contacting you as a potential Talent for current or future job vacancies and to assess your suitability for the offered positions.
- Randstad Clients: clients may provide us with your Personal Data to facilitate your participation in their selection processes; and/or
- Third parties (referrers): persons who provide employment references or information about your work or professional performance.
how long do we keep your personal data?
We may retain your Personal Data for a Retention period of 2 years from your last response to an open position advertised by us. Where Processing is based on Consent, we may retain your Personal Data for the period for which you granted us the Consent, unless you withdraw this Consent. We may retain your Personal Data for longer if it is necessary in connection with any actual or potential dispute (e.g., we need this Personal Data to establish or defend legal claims); in such a case, we will retain your Personal Data until the termination of such a dispute. If you have contacted our call center, the call recording will be kept for a Retention period of 6 months. If required by mandatory regulations, we archive documents containing your data for the specified period.