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SOC 2 and GDPR for Recruiting Firms: What You Actually Need to Know

Somewhere in your sales cycle, a client's procurement team will send a security questionnaire. It will ask whether your ATS is SOC 2 compliant, how you handle GDPR, and where candidate data is stored.

SOC 2 and GDPR for Recruiting Firms: What You Actually Need to Know

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Somewhere in your sales cycle, a client's procurement team will send a security questionnaire.

It will ask whether your ATS is SOC 2 compliant, how you handle GDPR, and where candidate data is stored.

Most recruiting firms answer that questionnaire by forwarding it to their software vendor and hoping.

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Somewhere in your sales cycle, a client's procurement team will send a security questionnaire. It will ask whether your ATS is SOC 2 compliant, how you handle GDPR, and where candidate data is stored. Most recruiting firms answer that questionnaire by forwarding it to their software vendor and hoping.

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