Recruitment Privacy Notice

Your name, contact details, the position applied for, your work and employment experience, safety certifications and training, your answers about travelling to site and accommodation, and any evidence documents you choose to upload.

We do not ask for your full home address at this stage, and date of birth is only collected where Erith has recorded a lawful business requirement for it. Date of birth is never used to rank or screen applicants.

You may voluntarily attach a CV to your application. It is optional: your application is assessed in exactly the same way whether or not you provide one, and a CV is never read by any automated screening step.

Where you do provide a CV, we use it to help assess your suitability for employment. If you are hired, relevant recruitment information including your CV may be transferred into Erith's employee onboarding system, FirstDay, and kept as part of your employment record under the retention rules that apply to employee records.

We process a CV under the same lawful basis as the rest of your application — our legitimate interest in recruiting suitably competent people, and taking steps at your request before entering a contract of employment. We do not rely on consent simply because providing a CV is optional.

Please keep your CV focused on the skills, qualifications and experience relevant to your application, and avoid including information we do not need — for example date of birth, a photograph, national insurance or passport numbers, bank details, your full home address, health or disability information, or details of ethnicity, religion, political opinions, trade union membership or sexual orientation. Some of this information receives additional protection under UK data protection and equality law and we do not need it to assess your suitability for a role. If you do include such information we will not use it to assess or rank your application, and the document is treated as potentially sensitive and protected accordingly.

We use this information to assess your application against job-related requirements for the role, to contact you about it, and to meet health, safety and competence obligations. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in recruiting suitably competent people, and taking steps at your request prior to entering a contract of employment.

Your answers are checked for completeness and compared against objective, job-related criteria configured by authorised Erith recruitment administrators. This produces a transparent, explained category — never an opaque score — which is used only to help a human reviewer prioritise their reading.

No hiring decision is made automatically. Every shortlist, progression or rejection decision is made by an authorised Erith reviewer.

Only authenticated Erith staff holding a Recruitment Reviewer or Recruitment Administrator role. Access is enforced by the database itself, and views, downloads, exports and decisions are recorded in an audit log.

Unsuccessful applicant information is retained for the period configured in Erith's approved recruitment policy, after which it is deleted or anonymised automatically. Where a record is subject to an authorised legal or administrative hold, it is retained until the hold is released and the reason is recorded.

Any CV you supply follows the retention lifecycle of the application it belongs to and is deleted through the same controlled, audited process. Where a hold applies to the application, its CV is preserved too.

You may request access to the information we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or erased, object to or restrict its processing, and complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

To exercise any of these rights, or to ask a question about how your application data is handled, contact Erith's recruitment team using the contact details published on the Erith website.