Perhaps, but will they do it on-line and realtime? I understand from an
acquaintance at the United Nations that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
the UN to hire European nationals, especially for posts outside Europe, because of
the increasing delays caused by data protection compliance regimes. Records of
degrees, courses, experience, and prior job recommendations are taking much longer
to obtain becuase of the wide variety of requirements of the record-holders for
obtaining consents. He estimates that they are hiring half as many European
job-seekers as they were two years ago because the positions must be filled, and
the delay in getting records forces the UN to accept other candidates whose files
are completed more quickly.
Law of Unintended Consequences at work,
Graham P Robinson wrote:
> Data Protection sneaked into the newspapers again this weekend:
> Saturday's Guardian and today's Telegraph carried articles on the degree result
> checking service being set up by the Higher Education Statistics Agency
> (HESA) and Experian, the credit reference agency. Employers will pay GBP35
> to Experian for them to check the institution attended, dates, subjects studied
> and grades achieved by prospective employees. Saturday's Guardian reported
> that "To comply with data protection rules, employers will have to seek an
> applicant's permission before consulting Experian but to refuse may reflect
> badly on a job candidate".
> I understand that HESA was originally set up to analyse and report on HE
> statistics. Though I note from their Register Entry that they are registered
> under "P018 Trading in Personal Information". This was news to me.
> I should be interested in reading colleagues views on this.
> Graham
> PS: I expect most university Student Records offices would be more than
> happy to offer employers a bargain priced confirmation of results service
> undercutting HESA!
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