For those who are keen on moving abroad, the European Food Safety Authority (Parma, Italy) has published several new Job Vacancies Announcements at:
<http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/aboutefsa/jobs.htm>
Among these one is for a "Head of the “Human Capital & Knowledge Management” Unit" (this Unit is said to start from January 2012 on but you may not notice that).
I am publicising the announcement because it is probably the first case in which I see confirmed in a very tidy way all the necessary ingredients that qualify job vacancies announcements as a type of "misleading advertising" with serious concerns about the application of the European Data Protection Legislation arising from it too.
And... I pretty much keen on publicising myself too :) as I am working and studying the regulatory and governance aspects of these complex information management situations having experienced them myself as a candidate for more than two years with hundreds of applications submitted (and partly documented last year through my CPD-Wiki).
A part from the ethical aspects of the recruitment procedures, the case is also interesting from an Interface / Web Design point of view (it is extremely difficult to make the user aware of the "pretext" that determine the overall meaning of a recruitment campaign and its organisational and legal context).
But at least the EFSA Web Portal has presented all the available information in such a way that allows to understand nature, scope and success criteria of the recruitment operation.
Here is my brief structured analysis.
The job vacancy announcement is managed and monitored within a "campaign" (see at <http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/aboutefsa/jobs.htm> the document "Status of recruitment").
It is the candidate choice to assess, trust and balance the "evidence" that:
A) the announcement is presented via a main page in which the "full vacancy detail" has pretty much less visual importance compared with the so called "action button" <APPLY NOW> at:
<http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/vacancies/vacancy/efsaxad2011007.htm>
AND
B) the announcement has very firmly stated and tidely presented clear elements though not at all clarified from a Data Protection point of view:
1) an approaching deadline (25/05/2011 at midnight)
2) a Job "Starting Date" said to be "As soon as possible"
3) a type of contract said to be "a temporary contract"
4) a note in the description in which is clearly specified the vacancy does not exist at present ("The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has set up a selection procedure that aims to establish a reserve list for Agents for" the advertised post):
AND
C) there is plenty of others "reserve lists" of people interested in applying for future work that normally become "extended" (see the document "Reserve Lists" at <http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/aboutefsa/jobs.htm>).
In sum, one can say that… "evidence" of what you understand may be all in your mind :)
Brunella Longo
Information Management Advisor, Project Manager Prince2 Practitioner, Independent Scholar
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London NW3 5EX
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