We collect your personal information primarily to assess your suitability for employment or engagement with us and to administer our recruitment and selection process. This includes:
assessing your skills, qualifications, experience and suitability for a role
carrying out recruitment activities, including candidate communications, interviews, assessments, shortlisting and hiring decisions
verifying information relevant to your application, including qualifications, licences, references and any authorised background checks
promoting diversity and inclusion
determining your eligibility to work and meet role requirements, and where relevant, considering any reasonable workplace adjustments
considering you for current vacancies and, where you have separately consented, future employment opportunities
meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.
The personal information we collect may include, at times, sensitive information, such as information about your gender identity, sexual preferences or practices, racial or ethnic origin, health and criminal records, where reasonably necessary for our recruitment and employment-related functions and activities, and for purposes directly related to those functions and activities, as described above.
If you do not provide with the information requested, we may be unable to assess your application, verify your qualifications or suitability, conduct required screening activities or progress your application through the recruitment process.
Depending on the role and stage of the recruitment process, we may collect:
your name, address, telephone number and email address
employment history and professional experience
education history, qualifications, licences and certifications
information contained in your resume, curriculum vitae, cover letter and application materials
information relating to your right to work in Australia
referee and reference information
interview notes, assessment results and recruitment records
correspondence and communications with you
background screening information, where relevant and authorised
any other information you choose to provide during the recruitment process.
We will only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for our recruitment and employment-related functions and activities.
We generally collect personal information directly from you through:
online application forms
recruitment portals
emails and other correspondence
interviews
assessments and testing
interactions during the recruitment process.
We may also collect personal information from third parties, including:
recruitment agencies and recruiters acting on your behalf
referees nominated by you
publicly available sources, including professional networking websites
background screening providers engaged by us
educational institutions, accreditation bodies, licensing authorities or government agencies, where authorised by you or permitted by law.
We may disclose your personal information to:
our related bodies corporate
recruitment service providers and technology providers assisting with recruitment activities
background screening providers
your nominated referees
educational institutions, licensing authorities and accreditation bodies for verification purposes
professional advisers
regulators, law enforcement bodies, courts, tribunals and government agencies where required or authorised by law.
Some of our related entities, recruitment systems and service providers may be located, or store or process personal information, overseas. It is likely that your personal information may be disclosed to recipients in Australia and New Zealand and may also be accessible from other countries in which our service providers operate or maintain systems. Where we disclose personal information overseas, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that overseas recipients handle your personal information in a manner consistent with local privacy laws or otherwise as required by law.
Our Privacy Policy contains further information about how we handle personal information, including:
how you may access personal information we hold about you
how you may seek correction of your personal information
how to lodge a complaint and how that complaint will be managed if you are concerned about how we handled your information.