This section of our privacy statement describes how and why we collect and use personal data in connection with our recruitment activities. It applies to individuals making applications for employment directly with us or those on behalf of whom an application is made (e.g. through recruitment agencies).
If your application is successful, we carry out pre-employment screening checks as part of our onboarding process and your personal data will be further processed as an employee of the firm. Depending on the role you have applied for, these employment screening checks may include criminal records checks.
We collect your personal data from the following sources:
We will collect personal data about you at various stages in the recruitment cycle, including:
We also create personal data in the course of our recruitment activities with you:
If your application with us is successful, we will collect:
You will receive further information about the processing of your personal data as a member of PwC’s personnel should your application be successful.
Your personal data will be used for the following purposes:
Legal grounds:
We collect and use information about race and ethnicity, religious and philosophical beliefs and health data for the following purposes:
We carry out criminal records checks for the following purposes:
Algorithms that have been designed to automate some of our recruitment assessment decisions are used during the stages of the recruitment and assessment process as follows:
Responses to online questions are compared with our predefined requirements set for the relevant roles. Where the predefined requirements for the role are met, the application will progress automatically to the next stage of our recruitment process.
For some roles, we utilise online assessments which involve automated decision making. This stage includes a series of online assessments which involve solely automated decision-making. The online assessments you are asked to complete have pre-determined correct or incorrect responses set, which relate to requirements needed in order to perform the role. The predefined responses are based on data that indicates what good job performance at PwC looks like (informed by job analysis conducted with PwC staff and partners) in relation to these assessments. Your responses to the online assessment questions and overall assessment score will be compared to the predefined responses and scores set for the relevant role(s). If you have an overall assessment score that meets or exceeds that required for the relevant role your application will progress automatically to the next stage of our recruitment process.
School and College Leavers, Undergraduate and Graduate recruitment: This stage is an ‘immersive’ day in the life experience. It comprises a series of tests, for example numerical, written and group exercises with other candidates, together with an interview.
Automated decision making is not involved in this stage of the recruitment process. Candidate performance is assessed on the day by the host and assessors facilitating the relevant assessments at the event.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be used to check assessment answers submitted on the day for plagiarism, with any suspected plagiarised answers being subject to a subsequent human review. Your assessment answers may be retained and used to enhance the AI tool further in the future.
You can ask for us to review the outcome of any solely automated decisions by emailing PwCStudentRecruitment@hccs.pwc.co.uk. Please include your candidate ID and your recruitment process stage when emailing.
In addition to the information set out in our general privacy statement, personal data processed by us in connection with our recruitment activities may also be transferred to:
Provider name |
Level and type of vacancy/role |
Service provided to us |
Address |
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Amberjack |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates |
Manual video interview assessment, software used to conduct and manage activities as part of the Career Focus Day/Assessment Day Artificial Intelligence used to review answers for plagiarism that are submitted during Career Focus (Assessment) Day. |
Amberjack, Newbury House, 20 Kings Road West, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5XR, UK |
Arctic Shores |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates |
Candidate testing/assessment |
Lowry House, 17 Marble Street, Manchester M2 3AW, UK |
Beeline |
Contractors |
Payroll for contractors and temporary staff |
Kean House 6 Kean Street London WC2B 4AS, UK |
Conduent Process Solutions Limited |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers Contractors |
Provision of administration services for various stages of the recruitment process, including: candidate application, event scheduling and onboarding. |
160 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4AN, UK |
Experian
|
School and College Leaver Careers Undergraduate and Graduate Careers Experienced Careers |
Provider of pre-employment screening services |
80 Victoria St, Westminster, London, SW1E 5JL |
HireVue |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers |
Video interviews platform and event scheduling software for Career Focus Day/Assessment Day. |
Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3TT, UK |
Kenexa Brassring (provided by IBM) |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers |
Candidate application tracking, offer, rejection and onboarding (prior to 7 June 2021) and maintenance of legacy records |
North Harbour
|
Leoforce (Arya) |
Experienced Careers |
Automation of CV finding and collection |
500 W Peace St, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA |
Pure Recruitment Group Limited |
Contractors |
Conducting interviews on behalf of PwC |
20 St Dunstan's Hill, London, EC3R 8HL, UK |
Randstad |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers Contractors |
Sourcing of candidates and hiring and onboarding of some work experience candidates |
450 Capability Green, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3LU, UK |
SHL |
School and College Leaver Careers
Undergraduate and Graduate Careers
Experienced Careers |
Candidate testing/assessment |
Victoria House, 37-63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DR, UK |
Smashfly Technologies |
School and College Leaver Careers Undergraduate and Graduate Careers Experienced Careers Contractors |
Powers PwC job board and automatically posts opportunities to third party job boards. Used for talent pooling, sending emails, direct sourcing of talent and analysis of talent. Used for event marketing and logistics |
9 Pond Lane, Suite 3A3, Concord, MA 01742, USA |
VirBela |
School and College Leaver Careers Undergraduate and Graduate Careers Experienced Careers |
Facilitation of virtual campuses for student recruitment, school leaver recruitment and experienced recruitment events |
2219 Rimland Dr suite 301 Bellingham WA, USA 98226 |
Workday |
School and College Leaver Careers Undergraduate and Graduate Careers Experienced Careers |
Candidate application tracking, offer, rejection and onboarding
|
6230 Stoneridge Mall Road
|
We retain personal data processed in connection with our recruitment activities as follows:
PwC does not knowingly collect or maintain personal data from recruits who are under the age of 16. If you are under 16 years of age, then please do not submit a recruitment application to PwC. If PwC learns that we have collected personal data below the age of 16, we will delete this information from our records.