The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office recognizes your right to privacy.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office contracts with Symplicity Corporation and the NACElink Network to provide University of Tennessee Knoxville students with Hire-A-VOL. Hire-A-VOL is our online system that provides job listings, the on-campus recruiting system, and resume services.

Please refer to the NACElink Privacy Statement for technical details and a description of the NACElink.com site.

Use of Personally Identifiable Candidate Information by the University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services Office
Through NACElink, available via the Career Services website, 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 by Career Services for job-search advising, promoting programs and services, notifying candidates of employment opportunities, and referring qualified candidates to employers.

Third party recruiters, such as employment agencies or search firms, do not have access to resume books and are only allowed to post positions for their organization.  Students/alumni may choose to provide their resume to these employers.

Only the resumes of students who have given permission to have their resumes released to employers are shared with prospective employers.  Students can grant permission by including their resume in a resume book, by submitting their resume to a job posting and by selecting a choice that states—Yes, Release resume to Employers/Internet.

Resumes are selected based on objective, legally-permissible requirements.

Employers do not have general access to view information or resumes directly from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services database. Employers may only see the resumes that have been shared and published in a resume book, specifically applied to that employer or based on the permission granting statement referred to a potential employer.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office may conduct searches on resumes and candidate profiles to notify candidates of educational or employment opportunities through email communications. By entering data into the Hire-A-VOL/NACElink 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.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office is continually involved in educational research in the areas of recruitment and employment and student data maintained in Hire-A-VOL may be used in support of this research. Your privacy is important to us.  In accordance with institutional research guidelines, we maintain strict confidentiality of all student data and do not identify individual students or employers when analyzing recruiting data and providing related reports. NACElink cannot use or sell individual candidate data. Unlike commercial vendors, NACElink staff cannot look at individual candidate data.

Security
Personally identifiable information is protected both on - and offline. The data of students, alumni, and employers are password protected. NACElink has technical, administrative, and physical security measures and safeguards in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under NACE’s control.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office does not endorse any employer and urges students to use good judgment in all of their interactions with employers. The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office is not responsible for safety, wages, working conditions or other aspects of off-campus employment. Due to the volume of jobs received by this office, we are unable to research the integrity of each organization or person that lists a job with us.  The University of Tennessee Career Services office suggests 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). The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services office advises students to interview in public places only.

Students and alumni should contact The University of Tennessee Knoxville Career Services offices 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 Hire-A-VOL account on The University of Tennessee Career Services web site.