ART AND
LINKEDIN.COM
ART is
a mere subscriber to Linkedin.com's
services, including its paid services for
recruiters. As a subscriber, our firm's
profile is viewable on the Linkedin.com
websites, and through those means it is
possible for other Linkedin.com subscribers
to make connections to ART and for ART
recruiters to make connections to other
subscribers of Linkedin.com, candidates and
employers alike.
In this
framework, all policies involving data
protection are the sole responsibility of
Linkedin.com. ART has no part in the
formulation, interpretation or governance of
that firm's policies. ART does not share in
any data collected by Linkedin.com other
than that which is viewable online by ART
and any other paid or otherwise registered
subscribers to Linkedin.com services.
Connections
initiated and accepted between ART and
candidates or employers assume a willingness
by such parties to be aware of one another
for possible career or business
relationships, but these connections in no
way imply any formal or legal commitment by
any party to act on behalf of the other
party.
ART's
use of our Linkedin.com connections is
largely to serve as an initial communication
point between individuals and companies that
might wish to express interest in possible
business relationships. Connections that are
made with Linkedin.com users by ART are
usually made with the belief that that
person possesses skills or experiences in
industries, markets, fields or disciplines
that ART has worked in or that it plans to
work in.
Most
users of Linkedin.com state in their
profiles interest in hearing about job
inquiries, and ART assumes that Linkedin.com
users who accept ART connections might
possibly be receptive to hearing about a
potentially suitable ART client search.
Before
or after receiving and accepting a
connection on Linkedin.com, some candidates
upload their resumes or CV's to Linkedin.com
and offer that information to ART in
consideration of their candidacy. ART may or
may not at that time download that
information from Linkedin.com and save that
to our computers.
Often
once an initial contact is made by an ART
recruiter to a potential candidate on
Linkedin.com, the ART recruiter might
request the candidate to communicate
directly with him or her outside of the
Linkedin.com framework. This typically is
when the ART recruiter believes that the
person could be immediately suitable for a
current or imminent client search. Contact
is usually by email, sometimes by telephone.
A resume or CV of the candidate is usually
requested to be emailed directly to the
recruiter at an ART email address, and
outside of the Linkedin.com framework.
ART,
having been founded in 1987, has had
preexisting relationships with candidates
and employers prior to, exclusive of, and
unrelated to, any common subscriptions with
Linkedin.com. We shall continue to contact
individuals and companies outside of any
connections via Linkedin.com.
INVITATIONS
TO CONNECT TO ART VIA LINKEDIN.COM
Since
ART first went online in 1996 (since 1998 as
www.atlanticresearch.com), our website has
been visited by many hundreds of thousands
of job-seekers and employers, and a very
large number of them sent us their resumes.
In utilizing Linkedin.com as a way of
keeping in closer and more up-to-date
contact with those great candidates, we have
often used Linkedin.com's invitation system
to reach out to those candidates.
If you
received an unexpected invitation from ART
to connect, it is very likely because at one
time in the past you sent us your resume or
CV. We hope that you accept that connection
invitation, and we hope that you remember
working with us! In some cases, your
Linkedin.com invitation might come to you
via an email address that you used on your
resume but that you do not use for
Linkedin.com. That's OK. It's us saying
hello and asking to stay in closer touch for
future career opportunities.
CANDIDATE
& ART CONTACTS AFTER INITIAL
LINKEDIN.COM CONTACT
When a person connects to our
Linkedin.com profile, we do not consider
that connection as being indicative of the
person's full interest in being an ART
candidate. We, as well as the job seeker,
likely see such a connection as only a
starting point for a relationship.
An ART recruiter might first
contact a candidate in Linkedin.com, and if
s/he asks the candidate to send a resume or
CV, it would be because the ART recruiter
believes that there might be a potentially
suitable fit with a current or imminent ART
client search requirement. If the candidate
responds and sends a resume or CV at that
time, then ART considers the person as an
"ART candidate." One's clear expression of
willingness to work with ART on a particular
ART client opportunity is shown by one's
sending us a resume or CV.
It is our recommendation that
a person send us a resume or CV only after
the person has read, understood and accepted
our policies regarding data collection and
protection, as well as ART policies
regarding the presentation of candidate data
to ART client(s).
By sending us a resume or CV,
we have to assume that the person has read
our policies stated here and agrees with
them.
IMPORTANT:
THE INHERENT INSECURITY OF E-MAIL
& THE PROBLEM OF "COMMON
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL PRACTICES"
INVOLVING EMAIL
ART does its best
to protect candidate data security in every
possible way, but the commonly used practice
of sending resumes and CV's by email
potentially could risk that the document(s)
sent might be captured by an undesired third
party.
If you send ART
your resume or CV and if ART emails your
resume or CV to an employer, as per your
permission, it could be possible that your
data could be leaked unintentionally while
in transmission to that employer.
ART has been
evaluating various encryption technologies
for sending candidate resumes or CV's to our
client companies. However, the terrible
current state of existing technologies and
global business practices are the biggest
problem in this puzzle. We at ART could send
encrypted candidate resumes and CV's using
encrypted email, but:
- Candidates
almost always (to a 99.9%+ rate, in our
experience) have first sent us their
resumes and CV's as unencrypted documents
that they sent via unencrypted email
methods. When they do that, candidates
potentially have already exposed their
data to third parties beyond our control.
- Very
typically, candidates send us their
resumes or CV's from personal "free"
web-based email accounts whose accounts
are automatically "scanned" by the
provider both in the folder structure of
the webmail and at the provider's server
level. In
this way, candidates potentially have
exposed their data to third parties beyond
our control.
- Several of the
"free" major email providers used by our
candidates have reported that their data
has been hacked, usually exposing
usernames, passwords and other account
data.
- Most
encryption technologies at the document
encryption level and the encrypted email
level require both the sender and receiver
of the document and email message to
utilize the same technology or program. As
there is no universally accepted or
implemented system for such encryption, it
most typically would be impossible to
transmit most candidate resumes or CV's to
those employers that our candidates have
themselves asked us to present them to. A
sender's method of encryption might not be
allowed at the receiver's company or the
receiver might not understand how to
decrypt such documents.
- If candidates
were to send their resumes or CV's to
employers directly, in most cases it would
be by email, in unencrypted form,
utilizing unencrypted email.
- The general
understanding and usage of encryption
technologies among the general public and
business community is poor and rare in all
countries and in all industries. Sadly,
even the largest software and computer
makers, along with the largest email
providers, telecom carriers, and internet
service firms have not agreed upon methods
affording for universal and easy-to-use
encryption.
WHEN YOUR
RESUME OR CV HAS BEEN SENT TO AN
AN EMPLOYER
ART cannot bear
any responsibility for the proper handling
of your data once it leaves us, most
typically via a resume or CV emailed to an
employer. Your sending us your resume or CV
means that you are willing to take the
possible risk that an employer might lose,
share or mishandle your data.
We never
mass-mail candidate data to employers. When
we send a candidate's resume or CV to an
employer, it is almost always after that
employer has requested us to conduct a
particular search and after the employer and
ART have concluded a signed contract
covering that search.
Once your resume
or CV has reached the employer it is
possible that the ART contact at that
company, usually the hiring manager or HR
representative, then in turn emails your
document or otherwise shares it with other
company managers or staff for review. This
is normal and expected business practice
worldwide. How, when and with whom your
information is shared at that point is
outside of our reach and control.
RESUMES or
CV's SENT TO THIS FIRM
It is
understood that resumes or CV's sent to
Atlantic Research Technologies, L.L.C. by
candidates do not require our firm to act
upon receipt of said documents or to work on
behalf of said candidates.
It is
further understood that candidates who send
their resumes or CV's to Atlantic Research
Technologies, L.L.C. are doing so for the
purpose of seeking other employment
opportunities in their field and other
fields, and that the nature of the hiring
process might possibly lead indirectly or
directly to the candidate's employer
learning that the candidate is considering
other opportunities.
While
under no circumstances would ART ever
directly or knowingly contact a candidate's
employer to inform them that one of their
employees was seeking other positions
through us, ART cannot control the actions
of its clients and the general human nature,
which sometimes gossips. Leaks through
hiring authorities may occur and potentially
word might get back to a candidate's
employer.
While
ART tries its best to guard against such
occurrences, it should be understood that
when a candidate begins sending out resumes
and applications for other jobs, either to
search firms or to companies directly,
knowledge that the candidate is seeking to
leave a current employer might very possibly
get out in one form or another. This is
particularly true among competing companies
in the same industry, but it can occur in
any situation, even across large
geographical distances or international
frontiers.
It is
understood that when a candidate contacts
ART, at no time is ART working as that
candidate's agent or representative. At no
time does ART ever accept any payment from
any candidate for the purpose of acting as
that person's agent, and there is never any
commitment by ART to secure a position for
any candidate.
ART,
like nearly all other executive search
firms, is paid by an employer to find
candidates suitable for that employer's
specific job opening. The details and
requirements of that job opening are not
limited to the specifications in a job
description. In most cases, a written job
description may be absent, may be cursory,
or its parameters may be changed by the
employer at any time during their
interviewing, screening and hiring process.
Commonly in the middle of an interview
process, an employer might either decide
that they drastically might want to change
their original candidate requirements or the
job opening might be erased altogether. ART
cannot bear any responsibility for such
changes.
WORKPLACE
PRIVACY
Candidates
should be respectful of their employer's
policies concerning personal use of company
computers, e-mail and other internet systems
and policies. Viewing jobs sites and
websites of executive search firms on the
internet might not be considered acceptable
company policies at your current
employer.
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. can bear no
responsibility for any unforeseen or other
incidents that might ensue. Some employers
might consider personal use of their
computers and e-mail as grounds for
dismissal.
If
you are concerned about your own e-mail
security and privacy at your place of work,
use a private e-mail account to contact
headhunters. ART will assume that if it is
sent e-mail from a particular address it is
safe for ART to reply to that e-mail
address, unless you state otherwise. If ART
contacts you, initial contact may be by
e-mail or telephone. Responses tend to be
fairly quick if it appears to us that a
candidate's background may match our client
companies' needs. Please make it clear on
your resume or message what phone numbers,
e-mail addresses or other addresses are safe
for us or any of our client-companies to
reply to and which are not. It is preferable
that such contact information be mentioned
in the body of the message, even if it also
appears in a resume.
CANDIDATE
RESPONSIBILITY TO ART
It is
presumed that all information provided ART
by the candidate about work history,
education, career interests, goals,
requirements, etc., have been presented by
the candidate accurately and completely. It
should be expected that any and all
information provided to ART might
potentially be discussed with the ART client
company that the candidate has given
permission to be presented to.
Candidates
who present their resume, CV or other
statements about their work history,
educational credentials, work permits, etc.,
should assume that any and all claims might
be questioned or investigated by an employer
or other parties utilized by the employer.
It is therefore highly recommended that
candidates avoid the practices of misstating
dates of employment, of embellishing their
achievements, of stating deceptively valid
sounding educational degrees sold by
non-accredited companies (ie., "diploma
mills"), etc. It is possible that either
false statements or deceptive statements of
this nature could cause an employer to
either not interview or even to terminate an
employee who was found to have made false
statements prior to being offered a
position.
It is
not ART's responsibility to verify or
validate a candidate's work history,
employment details or other information that
a candidate provides to us. But
candidates should understand that if
ART does discover falsification or
embellishment by a candidate, that such a
person might be asked for clarification
or explanations by the ART recruiter,
and if the candidate's response is
unsatisfactory, the candidate might never be
presented to an ART client for any position.
GENERAL
DISCLAIMER
UNDER
NO CIRCUMSTANCES DOES ATLANTIC RESEARCH
TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. ("ART"), OR ANY OF ITS
MEMBERS, MANAGERS OR EMPLOYEES BEAR ANY
LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY -- FINANCIAL OR
OTHERWISE-- FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ITS
CANDIDATES. ANY POSSIBLE PROBLEMS
ARISING FROM A HIRE OR HIRING PROCESS ARE
PURELY AND EXCLUSIVELY A MATTER BETWEEN THE
CANDIDATE AND HIS OR HER EMPLOYER OR
PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER. ATLANTIC
RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. PROVIDES
REFERRALS OF CANDIDATES TO CLIENT-COMPANIES,
BUT IT IS UP TO BOTH THE CANDIDATE AND THE
EMPLOYER TO EVALUATE EACH OTHER'S
SUITABILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT, AND FOR THE
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE ALONE TO ASSUME ALL
POSSIBLE RISKS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF AN OFFER
OF EMPLOYMENT.
GENERAL
ADVISORY TO CANDIDATES
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. tries to the
best of its ability to only accept job
searches from firms that it believes offer
good career opportunities to our candidates.
(Approximately 50% of all employer
search requests made to ART are rejected by
ART.)
The
issue of "what is good for one person" might
vary greatly from person to person or
situation to situation. In matching
candidates to client-companies, ART
recruiters seek to balance information
provided by candidates in their resumes or
CV's with information provided by
client-companies. Sometimes, however,
candidate-supplied or company-supplied
information might be incomplete,
insufficient, incorrect or just "wishful
thinking." Or in the event of sudden
economic changes or downturns, yesterday's
"hopeful expectations" might be suddenly
turned into "today's shock."
In the
case of prospective employers, issues
regarding company sales volume, company
finances, company prospects, and issues
regarding the management style of company
officers and their business plan, among
other important matters related to the
candidate's career, must be evaluated by the
candidate himself or herself prior to
taking an offer of employment .
ART is unable to investigate these matters
or their validity on behalf of the candidate
at any time, although if requested by the
candidate, we may assist in requesting such
data from the client-company for the review
of the candidate.
During
an interview process, certain details about
a candidate or client-company might surface,
which could suggest that either the
candidate might not be suitable for the
company or that the company might not be
suitable for the candidate. In such an
event, ART reserves the right to advise
either party or both parties of what this
firm might see as a potential mismatch.
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C., its members,
managers or employees, bear no liability to
either candidate or client-company for ART's
not knowing or not being informed of certain
relevant or critical facts which, if known,
might have suggested the match would not
have been an appropriate one. It is
therefore the full responsibility of the
candidate to learn as much as he or she can
about the prospective employer, and it is
the full responsibility of the
client-company to learn as much as it can
about the prospective employee, prior to a
job offer, resignation and commencement of
employment, but in offering and accepting an
an offer of employment, both the employer
and employee mutually accept full
responsibility for any and all risks and
repercussions that might follow from their
choices.
NONDISCRIMINATORY
HIRING PRACTICES
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. matches
candidates to client jobs based only on
non-discriminatory business and career
criteria related to candidate job
experiences, candidate job performance,
candidate statements of achievements and
market familiarities, candidate statements
of their requirements and preferences,
employer statements of their company goals
and business objectives, employer
statements of the vacancy's budgetary
limitations, etc.
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. is a U.S.
based firm that is in full compliance with
U.S. federal, state and local laws
concerning equal opportunity employment
and non-discriminatory hiring
practices. We at ART believe that ART
exceeds these existing laws and
regulations, because we believe that any
form of hiring discrimination based on
race, color, gender, ethnicity, religion,
national origin, disability, age, marital
status, sexual preference or other
subjective and nonessential criteria is
immoral, unethical, or illegal.
ART
bases its searches solely on the specific
nondiscriminatory job qualifications
of its clients' openings and upon
our understanding of our candidates'
experiences and abilities to perform those
qualifications.
ART
will not accept any search assignment in
the U.S. in violation of U.S. law and/ or
our higher standards. Furthermore, ART
will not accept search assignments outside
the U.S. whose job descriptions are
expressed in nonessentially limiting or
discriminatory language. Being a U.S.
based recruitment firm, we are in full
compliance with U.S. laws related to
employment non-discrimination. We do not
ask for, nor do we take into account when
considering candidates, any personal
information that is irrelevant to job
performance. We therefore do not ask or
take into account a candidate's gender,
race, ethnicity, religion, age, etc. We do
not work with any company in any
jurisdiction that requests such
information for what appears to be for the
purpose of employment discrimination. Even
if employment laws in that country differ
from U.S. laws, ART proudly follows the
same global non-discrimination policy when
recruiting for candidates in all
countries, for all positions.
LINKS TO
THE ART WEBSITE, LINKS FROM THE ART
WEBSITE, ILLEGAL
NAME THEFT PRACTICES
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. does not bear
any responsibility for the accuracy,
validity, or claims by companies or
parties whose websites might link to the ART
website, or that might be linked from the
ART site. ART does not receive any income
from any website or company for providing
web traffic to them, and ART does not pay
any other company for listing the ART
website in their directory or by providing a
link to the ART website. In some cases, ART
has voluntarily registered its website with
several reputable search engines or
directories, but today, there are hundreds
of links to the ART website that have
been made unilaterally by various companies
and websites without the permission or
knowledge of ART. It is not the
responsibility of ART to seek out these
links or to investigate the validity of the
companies or websites that might happen to
have put a link to ART on their website.
No
website that lists a link to the ART website
is in any partnership or business
relationship of any kind with ART, and
Atlantic Research Technologies, L.L.C.
absolutely does not authorize any such
linker to specifically suggest that ART
promotes or validates their products,
services or claims.
Disreputable
or misleading firms or individuals who
misuse ART's good name and reputation in any
way shall cause Atlantic Research
Technologies, L.L.C. to track them
down and to bring criminal or civil action
against them in the jurisdiction(s) of our
choosing. Any such activities, including but
not limited to email address spoofing, shall
be fully prosecuted.
ART DOES
NOT SEND SPAM
Every personal
message from a recruiter to a person about a
job has been personally sent by the
recruiter specifically for the purpose
stated in that letter, and the name of the
recruiter is always stated, along with his
or her valid e-mail address. The subject
lines of messages from ART-derived emails
are either replies to messages sent to ART,
or they clearly state language related to
executive search, referrals, positions with
clients, jobs, etc.
Most ART
candidates contacted by ART by e-mail or
phone are normally contacted only a maximum
of 1-3 times per year.
ART deeply
respects the privacy of all parties whom we
work with, and if you do not wish to receive
any further messages from ART at a
particular e-mail address, please reply
to the party who wrote you, and simply in
the subject line, write "REMOVE," or in the
body of the message, state that you do not
wish to be contacted by ART in the future.
Please note that a human, never a robot,
would be reading your email.
The sale or other
transfer of an e-mail address obtained
through an opt-out request is prohibited by
U.S. law under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. ART
never has sold or transferred such candidate
information, and never will. That policy has
been in effect well before the CAN-SPAM
Act of 2003.
We are only
interested in building careers and good
companies for people to grow with. That is
our only business model. We hope that we
could be of assistance to your career either
now or long into the future. Whenever you
need us, we hope to be there for your needs.
PHISHING
& SCAMMING ADVISORY
Candidates
who receive inquiries from self-stated ART
recruiters via email addresses not being in
the atlanticresearch.com domain should be
very cautious, as normally an ART
recruiter would only make contact using
our own email domain.
Persons
pretending to be ART employees might use a
similar-sounding email address, usually from
a free email provider. It could also be
possible for this kind of criminal party to
send an email from an email address that has
been made to look like an
atlanticresearch.com address. In such cases
the person might ask for a fee or some
unusual request directing them to another
website or email address.
IMPORTANT:
ART recruiters never charge candidates any
fee for any reason anywhere. ART recruiters
do not process visas or promise job offers
in return for any kind of payment. In most
cases we are recruiting local candidates,
not moving candidates to other countries,
but often criminals masquerading as
recruiters pretend to offer jobs that they
do not have in return for fees from
candidates. Often their proposition is
directed at individuals in underdeveloped
countries being lured to non-existent jobs
in developed countries.
If
you receive any kind of suspicious message
mentioning ART, please report it to us.
If an
ART recruiter is asking a candidate to send
a CV or resume, it is usually because s/he
has an existing or very imminent client
search requirement for which that candidate
might be considered.
E-MAIL
SPOOFING OR OTHER FRAUDS VICTIMIZING ART
ART, like most companies and individuals, is a frequent victim of email spoofing.
We
do not have the capability of preventing
most random attempts by spammers that
steal or guess legitimate email addresses
and then use those email addresses to
disguise their true email addresses for
sending SPAM. The best way for an
individual to determine if an email from
ART is real or not is simply to read it
and see if there is any logic to the
sending of such a letter. If, for example,
a sales director at a semiconductor
company receives an email discussing a job
opportunity in semiconductor sales, it is
possible that ART sent it. If,
however, the same person received an email
supposedly sent from an ART email address,
but the letter is a solicitation for a
loan, a Rolex watch, etc., then the person
can be 100% certain that that email was
not sent by an ART recruiter. ART is in
the business of placing serious people
with serious companies. Nobody will ever
be sent a frivolous solicitation from ART.
If there is any doubt about an email from
ART, write the recruiter sending it and
you should receive a proper reply if the
email is from ART.
ART never
charges any fee to our candidates for
any reason, and if you are
approached by a person claiming to be
employed by ART who charges you a fee for
any reason, that person is not an ART
employee, and this person is committing
criminal fraud, victimizing our firm and
attempting to victimize you. Report this
party to the authorities and never pay
money to this person.
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. bears no
liability for any damages caused by such
criminals who illegally use our name,
email address, or any other company
property for the purpose of committing
crimes.
COPYRIGHT
ENFORCEMENT & WEBSITE CONTENT
Our
Website Content is Monitored Against
Web Plagiarism
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C., an executive
search firm with global reach, with
contacts, clients and candidates throughout
the world, will vigorously enforce its
worldwide copyrighted material from any form
of piracy. All information contained in this
website is copyrighted by Atlantic Research
Technologies, L.L.C.
Atlantic
Research Technologies, L.L.C. reserves all
rights, and its viewing is expressly for the
benefit of job seekers (candidates) and
employers (clients) only. Any unauthorized
use, reproduction or retransmission of any
ART web page or image would be in violation
of our copyright and we would promptly seek
enforcement of such an illegal violation,
with punishment to the highest allowable
extent of the law in the jurisdiction in
which we seek to prosecute.
ART
does not bear any responsibility for the
content or information in this website being
up to date. Job listings appearing on this
website are intended for informational use
only, not as representations of currently
available job listings. Rather, they are
intended to show some sample job searches
that ART has been asked to work on. Some
listings have been filled, some may be "on
hold" by the employer following their
initial contacting ART. Some confidential
job listings with ART are not posted online,
primarily at the request of the client
company.
INFORMATION
COLLECTED BY ART OTHER THAN RESUMES OR
OTHER RECRUITMENT RELATED DATA PROVIDED
BY THE CANDIDATE
Atlantic Research
Technologies, L.L.C. maintains website
logs noting IP addresses, referrers, and
the pages visited by a particular viewer
of the ART website. This information is
available to identify countries and
regions that have interest in our
services, as well as to track potential
malefactors who may later be found to have
used ART's copyrighted data in an
unauthorized manner or to have committed
other forms of illegal activity.
If
you have any questions about the policies
described above, please contact the ART
recruiter with whom you are working.