Ask HN: Is it common for companies to sell your resume information?

Re:Ask HN: Is it common for companies to sell your resume in... by leros on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:48PM (#34874472)

There are numerous data aggregators and data brokers out there. If your data is online (e.g. LinkedIn), they have it. If you've ever given data to a site that trades data with a brokerage, they have it. My company worked with one of these data aggregators and they offered us half-cost pricing if we shared our user data with them, which we declined to do, but I'm guessing many sites take the deal.

Point being, I can just about guarantee that your data is in these systems. It's probably being used for targeted advertising, recruiting tools, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if half the data tied to your name is wrong (it was for me when I looked myself up).

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Re:Ask HN: Is it common for companies to sell your resume in... by readonthegoapp on Monday February 20, 2023 @08:32PM (#34875343)

good point.

tho, i was just thinking about a typical fortune 5000 company -- e.g. a FAANG, etc.

they have their big, elaborate HR ATS systems - like iCIMS - presumably the data they collect are for any number of things - but is the info sold, to a data broker or advertisers or marketers or etc.?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it common for companies to sell your resume in... by leros on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:01AM (#34882622)

There is a good chance the candidate sourcing tools they used are plugged into the data brokers.

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