Job Portals have been around for 30 + years – biggest
being Naukri – MonsterIndia -TimesJobs -
Shinejobs etc
Each claim to have databases of 20 to 40 million
resumes of jobseekers
Main services offered by Job Portals are :
- To Jobseekers ( FREE service ) : Submit Resume / Search Jobs and Apply Online or thru a Mobile App
- To Employer Companies : ( Subscription based ) : Post Job advts / Search and download Resumes ( limited numbers )
Occasionally , some Job Portals offer “ Resume Writing “
service to jobseekers ( for a fee )
At its core, this traditional Business Model is nothing
more than :
“ Selling
“ resumes of jobseekers to employers (by charging hefty
subscriptions ) and enticing jobseekers to provide their PRIVATE /
PERSONAL DATA ( with offer of a FREE service ) “
And, while “ Submitting Resumes “, jobseekers grant an
“ omnibus consent “ to the job portal , by
clicking on “ I agree with the Terms and Conditions “ ( without reading ). Far
from an “ Informed Consent “
I think this Business Model is very likely to undergo a
major change, in light of the just released Draft of Government Policy
permitting Indian Citizen to “ Sell their PERSONAL DATA “ , as described in my
following blog :
Released
: Govt Policy for Selling Personal Data ……………………………………….( 06 Sept 2020 )
I see following possibilities :
[ A ] …. Job Portals may start selling of “ Bulk “ resumes to Companies with no
interest in “hiring “any
candidate but
to use the database for targeted advertising, in order to increase customer
base ( Eg :
Educational
Institutions / Health-Care Companies / E Commerce Portals / Insurance Companies
etc )
In this
scenario , Job Portal starts acting as a CONSENT MANAGER and would require to
obtain from
the Jobseekers
concerned, their “ SPECIFIC – INFORMED “ consent
[ B ]….. Some Start-Ups becoming
CONSENT MANAGERS, and facilitating transfer of RESUME-DATABASES
from
one company ( Seller ) to another company ( Buyer )
It is worth
remembering that most organized sector companies ( and especially those who
have, in
the past, subscribed to Job Portals and, over
the years downloaded THOUSANDS of resumes for which
they have no use any more . These resumes are
just lying on their servers . So why not unleash their
intrinsic / latent value by selling ?
The Start-Ups interested
in implementing this, may want to look up :
Resumes
Exchange ………………………………………………….[ 09 Feb 2016 ]
Resumes
Exchange : A Job Portal Earthquake ?.........[ 29 June 2017 ]
[ C ]… Job Portals themselves ( or
OFFLINE RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ) , may want
to get into this business of
EXCHANGE of RESUMES between
Buyers and Sellers ( as outlined above )
At this
stage , readers may say :
Hey , What
kind of PERSONAL DATA does a Resume contain which would interest many Buyers ?
Here is my
guess for the Data Fields
which you might find in a SUBMIT
RESUME form of a job-portal :
1.
First Name / Middle Name / Last
Name
2.
Address / Current Location
3. Photo (
sometimes optional )
4.
Mobile Number / Email ID /
Birth Date
5.
Gender
6.
Educational Details ; Degrees - Diplomas
- Colleges - Years- attended - Marks
obtained
7.
Current Employer - Designation -
Salary
8.
Jobs held in past – names of Companies – Periods
worked – Salaries drawn – Designations held
9.
Reasons for leaving / Position applying for or interested
in
10. Preferred
location / Salary expected
11. Current
Industry – Function
12. Job
Role / Skills acquired
13. Languages
spoken – written
14. Area of
specialization
15. Marital
Status
16. Names
of References for checking background
17. Name of
Spouse
18. Number
of Children ( with their ages ) etc
Has there been any Court Judgments in past on the legality ( or otherwise ) of Job Portals " Selling " personal data of jobseekers to third parties ?
YES . ( source : A Fool's Paradise ? / 29 Aug 2017 ) , from which I quote :
"At the time of entering personal information or data, job-seekers are not aware that the said data can be sold to any third person or that it can be misused. Accordingly, the said ostensible consent of the said applicant/individual cannot be said to be a free, voluntary or informed consent..." he said.
"It is common knowledge that when a person applies for a job on the internet, s/he feeds personal information which includes name, address and mobile number. In my opinion, the said data being personal information cannot be transferred /shared / sold to some third person without the consent of the said person," the court said.
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How do you propose compensating the Jobseekers when Consent Manager " Sells " his personal data ?
> Upon receiving a " I want to buy ( shopping cart of shortlisted resumes ) " request , Consent Manager ( Job Portal ),to obtain SPECIFIC / INFORMED consent from each resume-owner who got shortlisted ( may be an email with a link to click, fully explaining the purpose )
> Asking the BUYER to direct deposit ( DBT ) , Rs 30 / - in the JanDhan Bank Account of each consenting Resume-Owner
> Upon getting confirmation of the CREDIT from each JD Account , Job Portal to email resumes of the relevant-consenting jobseekers to the Buyer
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The following DIAGRAM , very briefly explains these
scenarios :
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What might happen to the BIG DADDIES ( of Online Recruitment Industry ) ,
if some agile / passionate / obsessed
START-UP implements ?
Resumes
Exchange ………………………………………………….[ 09 Feb 2016 ]
Imagine if EVERY
company’s Computer has 100 MILLION , identical resumes ( and
getting SYNCHRONIZED
automatically , every morning )
And that Start-Up enabling downloading of a Resume Search
Engine to each of those companies, to enable local searching of resumes on
OWN COMPUTERS , instead of searching on Job Portals
Now , you can guess what will happen !
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hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 07 Sept 2020
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