Recruitment Edge Candidate FAQ

Top companies in the United States encounter challenges in finding and retaining top talent. Recruiters from these companies often turn to the open web in search of talent, but are often faced with the challenge of having to search dozens of different sites in order to find the top professional talent. Research indicates that professionals are also interested in being informed of opportunities that may fit their background and help them take their career to the next level, but might struggle to connect with the right companies and opportunities. Recruitment Edge by CareerBuilder bridges this gap by aggregating publically available data from both the open web and sites recruiters often turn to in order to identify talent, and makes it available to recruiters in one platform.

Recruitment Edge aggregates publically available data from commonly used websites and sources where potential candidates share their information for the purposes of advertising or promoting their background. We also may obtain information about you from other various sources, including directly from you via our sites, when you call or email us or communicate with us through social media, or when you participate in events, contests or other promotions. We also may obtain information about you from our parent, affiliate or subsidiary companies, business partners and other third parties, as well as from publicly available information. In addition to the data we obtain, we also use constructed contact data (i.e., generating estimated work email addresses for a potential candidate by inserting the potential candidate’s name into a known email address format for a particular company).

Recruitment Edge makes it easy for potential candidates to be visible to some of the nation’s top recruiters. As individuals publically share relevant professional information about their professional background online, Recruitment Edge will aggregate and update their profile using this data. Our goal is to provide the most up-to-date information made available by the potential candidate.

Any information found regarding you is compiled and presented in one profile page online. This includes links to social media sites you may be part of, and any information you have shared about yourself publically. We attempt to accurately match your social profiles to your Recruitment Edge profile, but encourage you to provide us with additional information so that we can improve the content of your profile.

Only recruiters with Recruitment Edge accounts are granted access to the Recruitment Edge database, allowing them access to view your profile. Our goal is to enable higher quality of engagement between recruiters and potential candidates. For this reason, we do not allow recruiters to mass email candidates. We take active measures to suspend and remove recruiters who abuse our database and do not conduct business in accordance to our terms and conditions. In addition, we maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical policies, procedures and safeguards based on NIST standards, and these are designed to assist us in protecting the Personal Information we collect against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

However, please note that no electronic transmission, storage or processing of information can be entirely secure. We cannot guarantee that the security measures we have in place to safeguard Personal Information will never be defeated or fail, or that those measures will always be sufficient or effective.

You may request to view a copy of your profile by calling 1.833.971.0574 or emailing riskandcompliance@careerbuilder.com and a member of our staff will be happy to send you a copy of your profile in PDF format. From there, we encourage you to review the accuracy of the content and provide us input on any information you would like for us to change, highlight, or remove from your profile.

If you notice any portion of your profile which does not represent your background accurately, please call us at 1.833.971.0574 or email us at riskandcompliance@careerbuilder.com and clearly identify the sections of your profile you wish you update or hide. Such information may be incorrect contact information, missing or incorrect links to your social profiles, or your employment or education history. Also, every seven (7) days, we update those profiles that are sourced from resumes uploaded to our CareerBuilder Resume Database. For that reason, an easy way to update or correct your data is to upload a recent version of your resume into our resume database at careerbuilder.com.

Note that information used in the Recruitment Edge profiles is collected from a variety of sources, and cannot be guaranteed to be current, accurate or complete, and in particular, we are not responsible for the accuracy, currency or completeness of information.

If you wish to remove your data from the Recruitment Edge database, you may do so via this link: https://edge.careerbuilder.com/optout or by calling 1.800.971.0574. Please note that we will use the email address you provide in the opt-out process to verify your request and match you to your profile; therefore, you will need to submit your request using the email address listed on your Recruitment Edge profile. If you supply an email address other than the one that we have on file for you, then the opt-out will not be effective. If this should occur, please attempt opt-out again (but with a different email address).

There is no penalty and we will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights—nor do we provide any financial incentives with different CareerBuilder product or service levels for those who maintain Recruitment Edge profiles.

The CareerBuilder online privacy policy website is available at https://www.careerbuildercareers.com/privacy-policy.