This section of our privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data in connection with our recruitment activities.
If your application is successful, we carry out pre-employment screening checks as part of our onboarding process. Depending on the role you have applied for, these checks may include criminal records checks.
We will collect personal data in connection with our recruitment activities as described below.
Most of the personal data we collect as part of our recruitment process is provided by you such as:
We create personal data in connection with our recruitment activities such as:
We obtain personal data from third party sources such as:
We process personal data for our legitimate interests to attract and secure the best talent to work with us as follows:
We carry out criminal records checks for the following purposes:
We collect and use information about race and ethnicity, religious and philosophical beliefs and health data for the following purposes:
Certain stages of our recruitment process include algorithms that have been designed to automate some recruitment assessment decisions.
Making an online application: This stage includes screening related to academic performance. Responses to online questions are compared to predefined responses set for the relevant roles. Where the predefined responses are exceeded, applicants will progress automatically to the next stage of the recruitment process. The process for Strategy Consulting applicants also includes screening related to a CV. There is an extenuating circumstances step at this stage in the process, where an applicant may request that a member of the team will screen the application.
Online Assessments (Situational judgement tests and Game-based psychometric assessments): This stage includes a series of online assessments which involve solely automated decision-making. The online assessments you’ll be asked to complete have pre-defined correct or incorrect responses which relate to requirements needed for 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 roles. Applicants with an overall assessment score that exceeds that required for the relevant role will progress automatically to the next stage of the recruitment process.
Video interview: This stage includes a video interview that may use automated decision making by applying an artificial intelligence algorithm. After you’ve recorded your video interview responses, the algorithm evaluates your answers by studying your video responses - word choice, voice inflection, emotion, language patterns and facial expression - to provide a fair and objective score recommendation. Applicants with high recommended scores will progress directly to the next stage of the recruitment process. The video interviews of all other applicants will be subjected to human review to determine whether they should progress or not. The algorithm has been designed and tested to be objective, and to focus only on the things that are important to the particular job role you’ve applied to. The technology has been, and continues to be, tested for bias related to gender, ethnicity, and age.
PwC will be carrying out the automated decision-making as it is necessary for entering into a contract (i.e. the potential contractual relationship between PwC and you as employer and employee). Using automated decision-making supports PwC to maintain a fair and objective selection process, whilst managing the significant volume of applications received for school and college leaver, undergraduate and graduate recruitment roles each year. The recruitment technology used by PwC enables a streamlined selection process which assesses candidates on the behavioural qualities identified as important to a successful career at PwC.
You can ask for us to review the outcome of any automated decisions by emailing HCCSStudentRecruitment@uk.pwc.com. Please include your candidate ID and your recruitment process stage when emailing.
In addition to the general information about when and how we share personal data and locations of processing, personal data processed by us in connection with our recruitment activities may be transferred to:
Name |
Which recruitment channel |
Role |
Address |
|
Contractors |
Provider of platform for recruitment of contractors |
43 Harwood Road, SW6 4Q, UK |
AmberTrack (provided by Amberjack) |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates |
Candidate testing/assessment - Situational judgement test (SJT) |
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 |
CGI IT UK Limited |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers |
Payroll for personnel (other than contractors and temporary staff)
|
20 Fenchurch Street, 14th Floor, London, EC3M 3BY, UK |
Cirrus Assessment |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers |
Assessment day tool to capture case study answers |
Seizoentuinenlaan 8, 3452 RA Vleuten, The Netherlands Hosted by Amazon Web Services in the EU |
Conduent Process Solutions Limited |
School and College Leavers Undergraduate and Graduates Experienced Careers Contractors |
Onboarding of candidates |
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 and AI video interviews |
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 |
North Harbour Portsmouth Hampshire, PO6 3AU, UK |
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
|
Facilitation of virtual campuses for student recruitment and school leaver 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 Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA |
Government and regulatory agencies as required by, and in accordance with, applicable law or regulationWe are required to keep records of our recruitment processes where we sponsor a worker from outside the EU. The Home Office has authority to obtain disclosure of this personal data to check that we are complying with applicable law and regulation. We will only fulfil requests for personal data where we are permitted to do so in accordance with applicable law or regulation.
We retain personal data processed in connection with our recruitment activities as follows:
If your application is successful we will retain relevant personal data as part of your employee record and your talent pool account (if you choose to join our talent pool).
If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain and use the information you provided to PwC as part of your application for a reasonable period of time to deal with any matter which may arise in connection with your application, for purposes of contacting you regarding other employment opportunities and for our legitimate business purposes (for example, to make sure we do not contact an individual about a role they have already applied for) and for as long as you are a member of our talent pool (if you choose to join our talent pool).
Where we sponsor a worker from outside the EU we keep personal data about the other applicants for the role until we are audited by the Home Office to check we are complying with applicable law and regulation.