Recruitment candidates
According to our standards we only collect personal data necessary for our specified purposes, and we encourage recruitment candidates to only share personal data where it is strictly required for us to evaluate your candidacy for our job positions.
If a candidate applies to PwC via our Workday application, we encourage candidates to also read the privacy statement published on Workday. If a candidate applies for a job with PwC through other communication channels, we invite you to familiarize yourself with this section of the privacy statement.
In certain cases we may contact candidates ourselves using publicly available communication channels (for example, using the contact information provided on a person's Linkedin profile or other social networks).
PwC may search for additional information about you in publicly available sources and/or verify information about you by contacting the contact persons you have indicated in your application to receive feedback about you.
For details on our recruitment process, please see our careers page.
PwC may process the following personal data:
name and surname;
contact information (e.g. phone number, email, residential address);
gender (only in aggregated form for statistical purposes);
academic and professional qualifications and experience;
language skills;
information about a valid Covid-19 certificate, if required for the specific position;
any other information that the candidate has chosen to provide about himself/herself or to import from other data sources (e.g photo, other biographical information, family status, skills, contact for feedback, etc.).
In your application for a specific PwC vacancy, you may also provide us with sensitive personal information about yourself, also known as special category data (for example, information about yourself provided during interviews or information you have provided in your application or CV), such as information about:
your political views or religious beliefs;
your union membership;
your criminal record;
your physical or mental health, etc.
PwC does not ask you to provide this personal information, except where such information is required by applicable laws (for example, for trade union membership).
Legal basis of processing |
Purposes of processing | Retention |
| PwC’s legitimate interests (subsection f) of Article 6(1) of General Data Protection Regulation). | Personal data may be processed for the following purposes (description of legitimate interests):
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As long as the personal data is necessary for the described purposes or as long as there are other legitimate interests of PwC that are considered more important than the interests of the data subject.
If the consent of the data subject to the processing of his/her data for other job positions has not been obtained or there is no other legal basis, the candidate's personal data is deleted six months after the end of the specific selection process. |
| Conclusion of agreement with data subject (subsection b) of Article 6(1) of General Data Protection Regulation). | Those candidates who are invited to join the team of PwC employees may be asked to submit additional personal data necessary for concluding an employment contract. All personal data submitted by the candidate will be processed for the purposes of establishing employment legal relations, that is, to conclude an employment contract and start the recruitment process. | As long as the personal data is necessary for the described purposes, the entire period of employment (only a part of the data submitted by the candidate), as well as the period of time specified in applicable laws after the termination of the employment relationship. If the person is not hired or refuses the offered vacancy, the candidate's personal data is retained for six months from the moment of the relevant decision on refusal. |
| Data subject consent (subsection a) of Article 6(1) of General Data Protection Regulation). | If the candidate wishes to be considered for other positions at PwC, we ask for consent. In such cases, personal data may be processed for the following purposes:
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As long as the data subject's consent is valid, unless there are other legitimate interests of PwC (for example, protection of PwC's interests in a dispute with the data subject) that are considered more important than the interests of the data subject. |
