Talent Search Privacy Notice
Cognizant’s careers website including Talent Community and Alumni Portal and its Candidate
Relationship Management (“CRM”) platform is provided and hosted by a third-party service provider
called Beamery Inc. This Talent Search Privacy Notice supplements the Cognizant Candidate Privacy
Notice and explains specifically how Cognizant collects and uses your personal information inconnection with its careers website and CRM platform.
We collect personal information from you directly when you apply for a job on our careers website,
sign up to join our Talent Community or Alumni Portal, or when you sign up to receive job alerts andother recruitment related information from Cognizant. We may also collect personal information
about you from publicly available sources, such as LinkedIn.
We use your personal information to create a profile about you in our CRM platform. We may enrich
your profile with information obtained from publicly available sources, for the purpose of improving
the quality and accuracy of your profile. Your profile may be periodically enriched with personal
information obtained about you through publicly available records and other third-party information
sources, such as your public social media profiles. We may, for example, enrich the following data
fields in your profile using public information: Name, Location, Phone numbers, WebLinks (including
social media links), Education, Work Experience and Skills. For further information on dataenrichment, please read the Beamery Data Enrichment Policy. You can review, update or request
deletion of your profile at any time by contacting sar@cognizant.com .
With your consent, we may use your personal information for the purposes of sending you relevant
information about Cognizant and informing you about job opportunities by email and/or SMS. You
can opt-out of these communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions includedin each communication.
If you sign up to join our Talent Community or to receive job alerts and other recruitment related
information from us, we may use automated processing tools to select you for relevant marketing
campaigns and match you with job opportunities that we believe may be suitable. These tools
leverage algorithms and machine-learning technology to match your profile information withrelevant recruitment marketing campaigns and events, and to compare the information in yourprofile with the specific requirements and qualifications of open roles. These tools rely on several
factors to assess your suitability for roles, campaigns and events, for example, your current job title,
skills, work experience and industry.
For further information on the collection and use of your personal information for recruitment
purposes, including important information on your individual rights, please read the Cognizant
Candidate Privacy Notice.
If you are located in India and apply for a role in India, the following will also apply:
We may use automated processing tools to assist us in evaluating your job application. These tools
leverage algorithms and machine-learning technology to compare the information in your profile
with the specific requirements and qualifications of the role you have applied for, to assesses how
strong the fit is between your application and the requirements of the role and to assign a ranking to
your application. These tools rely on several factors in assigning these rankings, for example, current
job title, skills, work experience and industry, which may vary per role. The rankings provided by theautomated processing tools are used by our recruitment team to prioritize the review of job
applications. This means that the top-ranking profiles/applications will advance to the next level ofthe recruitment process and the lower-ranking profiles may be considered for other suitable roles
which may be available with us provided you have consented to use your application for such othersuitable roles.