UNC Career Center is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information.
We contract Handshake to provide UNC‐CH students with job listings, the on‐campus recruiting system, and resume services.
Additional policies can be found on the UNC Policies website.
Use of Personally Identifiable Candidate Information by UNC Career Center
- Through Handshake students and registered alumni can post resumes, view and apply for jobs, and schedule on‐campus interviews. The information in a candidate’s profile is used the Career Center for job‐search advising, promoting programs and services, notifying candidates of employment opportunities, and referring qualified candidates to employers.
- Resumes are not shared with third parties, such as employment agencies or search firms. Only the resumes of students who have given permission to have their resumes released to employers are shared with prospective employers.
- Employers do not have access to view information or resumes directly from the Career Center.
The UNC Career Center may conduct searches on resumes and candidate profiles to notify candidates of educational or employment opportunities through email communications. By entering data into the Handshake system, students and alumni may have data included in aggregate reports used for evaluation of employment activities, educational programs, reports developed for institutional studies, and salary surveys.
Handshake cannot use or sell individual candidate data. Unlike commercial vendors, Handshake staff cannot look at individual candidate data.
Security
Personally identifiable information is protected both online and offline. The data of students, alumni, and employers are password protected. Handshake has technical, administrative, and physical security measures and safeguards in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under Handshake’s control.
UNC Career Center does not endorse any employer and urges students to use good judgment in all of their interactions with employers. We suggest that students request business references for unknown organizations before interviewing with them off campus or exploring job opportunities. Students should never give a potential employer their credit card, social security numbers, or bank account numbers, and never spend any of their own money on an employment “opportunity” unless very certain that it is for a legitimate reason (such as training costs). We also advise students to interview in public places only.
Students and alumni should contact UNC Career Center if they have any concerns about the use of their information. Students and alumni can view, correct or change their information by logging into their Handshake account.
