Recruitment Privacy Notice

Recruitment process

We may use the personal data that we collect or obtain about you for:

·   Profile management: We may process personal data to manage your profile in our recruitment systems so that we can provide current and future job opportunities, tailoring the content we provide you, based on your skills, interests, location, etc.

·   Pre-screening: We check that you can lawfully enter into a contract and fulfil the essential job criteria e.g. you have the relevant work authorisation and have answered job specific screening questions. This process may be automated.

Profile Evaluation: Depending on the job opportunity which you are applying for, you will be required to complete one or more of the following processes:

-              Profile review:  To assist our recruitment staff identify potential candidates, your profile (work experience, qualifications etc.) may be evaluated and ranked using a customized machine learning model.

-              Candidate Assessment: You may be asked to complete a short assessment, with a range of questions that are designed to help understand your preferred style at work, what motivates you and an assessment of your cognitive ability. The assessment will predict your suitability for the role you have applied for; and/or

-              Digital Video Interview: You may be asked to complete a short video interview, which will include a pre-defined set of questions which you will be required to answer within a set time frame. This may include a case study relevant to the job opportunity for which you are applying for. You will be asked to record your answer to each question; and /or

-              Personal interview:  When you are invited for a physical or video conferencing interview the interviewer may ask relevant questions to assess your suitability for the role. 

·   Communication: We may use a chatbot for answering recruitment related queries, sending communications & scheduling interviews.

·   Statistical research: We perform general statistical research using your data and data of other candidates to analyse the effectiveness of our selection process and we use aggregated information to create reports. This may include processing session data on online visitor activity.

·   Automated processing: We do not hire individuals solely based on automated processing. Where automatic processing supports a part of the recruitment process, you may have the right to request human intervention, contest an outcome that has resulted from automated processing and express your point of view, if required by law.

We will retain your personal data for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation). If your application is unsuccessful, Unilever may retain and use the information you provided to us for a reasonable period of time to deal with any matter which may arise in connection with your application, for contacting you regarding other employment opportunities, and for Unilever’s legitimate business purposes. Where personal data is no longer necessary or relevant for our identified purposes or where you have indicated that you are no longer interested in staying in contact with us, we will securely dispose of your personal data.

We may share your personal data for purposes related to the recruitment process with:

·        Other companies within the Unilever Group, including with those which may be located outside of your location and/or the Economic European Area (“EEA”);

·        Authorized third party agents, service providers and/or subcontractors of Unilever and in particular authorised third parties who carry out reference and background checks on behalf of Unilever; and

·        Competent public authorities, government, regulatory or fiscal agencies, to comply with a legal obligation.

International data transfers

We may transfer personal data internationally. If we do transfer personal data abroad, Unilever will make sure that the personal data is protected with a similar level of protection as required by law in its country of origin.

If we do transfer personal data to outside of the EEA, Unilever will make sure that it is protected in the same way as if it was being used in the EEA. We’ll use one of the following safeguards:

-               Transfer to a non-EEA country whose privacy legislation ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data to the EEA country;

-               Put in place a contract with the third-party that means they must protect personal data to the same standards as the EEA; or

-               Transfer personal data to organisations that are part of specific agreements on cross-border data transfers with the EEA; or

-               Transfer personal data to organisations that have adopted other appropriate safeguards, such as e.g. binding corporate rules, an approved code of conduct or an approved certification mechanism.

You may have certain rights under your local law in relation to the personal data we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

·        to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data;

·        request a copy of personal data we hold about you;

·        request that we update the personal data we hold about you, or correct such personal data that you think is incorrect or incomplete;

·        request that we delete personal data that we hold about you, or restrict the way in which we use such personal data;

·        request that we restrict our processing or you may object to our processing of your personal data

·        request that you will not be evaluated solely on the basis of automated processing, including profiling, and that your application will be subject to human intervention and to express your point of view where automated processing is used;

·        request to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing);

·        complain to a Data Protection Authority in your country.

Exercising your rights

To exercise your data privacy rights you can reach out to us on unilever.privacy@unilever.com. Please note that this is the global contact. For local requests, kindly check your local recruitment notice or contact your local HR department.

Please only submit applications for a current position using the proper channels (e.g. on Unilever career sites). Receiving your request at the right contact point helps us process your request faster.”

This Privacy Notice may be changed over time. This Privacy Notice was last updated in July 2024.