Playbooks
How to Handle Near-Miss Candidates (The Silver-Medalist Pipeline)
Near-miss candidates are your warmest pipeline for the next role, and most teams throw them away. Here is how to capture, consent, and reopen them.
Zen Job CV Team··10 min
Playbooks
How Long Can You Keep Candidate CVs Under GDPR?
There is no single EU number: retention is the recruitment process plus the claim window, then delete. Four weeks in NL, about six months in the UK and Germany.
Zen Job CV Team··10 min
Playbooks
How to Tell a Candidate They Didn't Get the Job (Free Templates)
Prompt, definite, and matched to the stage: the formula for a good rejection, plus ready-to-use templates and the lines that never belong in one.
Zen Job CV Team··10 min
Research
Is AI CV Screening Legal in the EU? (GDPR + AI Act)
AI CV screening is legal in the EU, but two laws apply: the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Both require a human, not the software, to make the decision. Here is what that means.
Zen Job CV Team··10 min
Playbooks
How to reject candidates well, at any volume
Rejection damage comes from silence and delay, not from the word no. Here is who gets what, how fast, and what the GDPR requires when you say it.
Zen Job CV Team··10 min
Playbooks
GDPR rules for CV screening: what actually applies
The GDPR does not ban CV screening. It constrains your lawful basis, how much you collect, how long you keep it, and how much a machine may decide alone.
Zen Job CV Team··12 min