This page applies if you are applying for a role at Cancer Research UK and explains how we use personal information during the recruitment process.
We might ask you for the following details, some are optional.
Your name
Your contact details (including postal address, telephone number, e-mail address and/or social media identity)
Date of birth
Sex
National Insurance number
Details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history
Information and evidence of your entitlement to work in the UK (a legal obligation under immigration law)
Biometric data, as part of evidence of your entitlement to work in the UK
Equal Opportunities data including if you consider yourself to have a disability
Information about your criminal record if you have any unspent convictions
Reference contact details (name, organisation, email address, phone number)
We will collect these details from your online application form that you would be submitted to us when applying for a job at Cancer Research UK. Your details may also be provided to us by you, or an agency on your behalf, if you send in a CV to cancer research UK. We may obtain your details from external job application sites, or organisations if you have been put forward for a job with Cancer Research UK, or applied online yourself via a third-party site, such as LinkedIn. If appointed, we also collect your data via an onboarding vetting provider, who carry out our recruitment vetting process.
We use your personal data to assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role you have applied for.
We may also use this data to carry out background and reference checks as part of the recruitment and onboarding process, where appropriate and legally permissible. This helps ensure that CRUK makes safe recruitment decisions and complies with our legal obligations, including verifying your right to work in the UK.
For certain roles, we may be required to seek additional information about criminal convictions and offences, and where required, conduct a criminal records check. Where this applies, we do so because it is necessary for us to fulfil our legal obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment and recruitment. Equal opportunities data is collected for monitoring purposes and to help us make reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities. This information will not be used for any other purpose unless we have your explicit consent. Your details will be stored in our HR systems as a record of your job applications, communications during the recruitment process, decisions made regarding your application, and any vetting carried out. Your data will be retained in accordance with our standard retention policy and securely deleted when no longer required.
