Onboarding and GDPR: the points many vendors miss
> TL;DR: The most frequent misses in recruiting software: retention, recruiter access, attachments, and candidate-data circulation.
ATS security is not only about retention
Most GDPR discussions around ATS products focus on retention. That matters, but it is not the only issue.
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What is usually missed
Teams often overlook overbroad recruiter access, attachments that are too easy to retrieve, internal notes that are not segmented enough, and candidate data replicated across too many third-party tools.
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Editorial analysis based on official vendor, project, and regulator documentation.
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