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
non-essentially 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.