Abstract
Privacy could be defined as “the freedom to selectively reveal one's self” (CSO Magazine, Logan Roots). Today, we may be frustrated by all the existing instruments created to collect those private pieces of information that most of the time we released by ourselves. As future graduates, we will soon have to pass through several job interviews and we should be prepared to face any “tricky” questions regarding our privacy.
We thought that it would be interesting to question ourselves on these issues.Is private information now part of the hiring process? Are we facing innovations or human rights abuses? What are the trends? We will try to give some answers to these questions with this study. We chose to present three topics strongly related to the problem discussed here.
In the first part, we will present the current Curriculum Vitae's perspectives and see how this recruitment tool is nowadays evolving brand new HR practice.Then, it seems important to question the increasing use of social networks and internet within the staffing process. Thus, we will spot what the stakes are for the future job applicants we are. Finally this study will focus on a very topical issue, that is, the HR management of religious beliefs.
Extract
[...] European countries are often meeting the problem by their litigious population. Recruiter's working comfort: Neither disturb by their own fears of doing wrong, nor pressure from the corporation (Limited in their discriminatory requirements) Human resource sector focus on adequacy skills. Which breed the third point; Time saving: The approach of reducing format to a supply/demand needs recruitment, human resources managers do not waste time, that could be used for a face‐to‐face interview. 6 C. Drawbacks: Vision of discrimination fighting Asking to candidate, masking their identity indicates a deep‐seated problem: Discrimination. [...]
[...] RELIGION IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS Today in France religion within the company especially in the recruitment process is taboo. How a secular country like France does have come to this situation? A. In the face of religious claims, HRD are subject to themselves. If religious discrimination in hiring is present this is also because managers do not know how to deal with religious claims. In full debate on national identity and the ostentatious signs, managers often faced with religious claims, require a manual. [...]
[...] For example, some believers refuse to be alone in an office with a man. It may also give an example of faithful who refuse to work under the authority of a woman 11 Another example is the wearing of religious symbols like headscarves that crystallizes most fears. At the hiring stage, some recruiters do not hide their intentions. For example, Lawrence Henry‐Guenon, “Tiptoptaux boss”, a mortgage broker, warned in interviews that she expects these client advisors full neutrality, invoking the values of her company. [...]
[...] In the private, religious liberty prevails. On this taboo subject, most firms also practice “ostrich‐like approach”, leaving their care managers to cope when a problem arises in their service. Wearing of religious signs, request a day off for a festival, ritual food, the thorny issues abound. In April 2008, surveys by Ifop with 393 companies already revealed that one third of them feel involved. If the law prohibits any ban, she admits some restrictions. This happens when the health or safety are at stake, or when protective equipment are required. [...]
[...] 8 Mimi Brewster seems to be the right person for this strategic position. Moreover, the CEO had a very positive first impression during the interview and Mimi's qualifications and recommendations are excellent. The point here is that the HR managers ran as usual a routine Google search on this promising candidate to complete the application and found information that may cause concerns. “A story in the November 1999 issue of the Alternative Review identified Mimi, as the leader of a nonviolent but vocal protest group that had helped mobilize campaigns against the World Trade Organization and [ ] One newspaper story featured a photo of Mimi sitting outside China's San Francisco consulate protesting China's treatment of a dissident journalist”. [...]
