Resume privacy check
Ten quick questions about where your CV and job-search data live, then a score and a short list of fixes, biggest first. No sign-up. Your answers stay in this page and disappear when you close it.
This is a self-check, not an audit. It can only weigh what you tell it, and it doesn’t judge any particular service. Its job is to show where your CV has gone and which step makes the biggest difference.
How the score works
Each answer adds 0 to 3 points: 0 when the data stays contained, more the wider or more public it spreads. “I’m not sure” counts as exposed, because a CV you can’t locate is one you can’t delete. The maximum is 22 points.
| Result | Points | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Low exposure | 0–4 | Your CV and job-search data sit in few places, and you know where. Keep it that way: review the list below once a quarter. |
| Moderate exposure | 5–10 | Your CV is in more places than it needs to be. A few settings and deletions, most under ten minutes each, bring it back under control. |
| High exposure | 11–22 | Your CV and search data are spread widely, some of it publicly reachable. Start with the top fix below; each one is a concrete step, not a reason to stop applying. |
Why these ten questions
A CV is one of the most detailed documents you hand out: name, contact details, employers, often a photo and date of birth. During a search it gets copied into job boards, trackers, CV scanners, recruiter databases, AI tools and browser extensions. None of that is wrong in itself. The questions cover the places where copies pile up and are easy to forget:
- Searchable CV databases and public PDFs: anyone who can search or follow the link can read it, and public files can end up in search engines.
- What’s on the CV: the less personal detail it carries, the less any leak or over-share matters.
- Trackers, CV builders and scanners with accounts: each one is another copy to keep track of and, eventually, delete.
- Browser extensions: an extension that can read every website sees more than the job ads it was installed for.
- AI tools: some services may use conversations to improve their models unless you change a setting.
- Agencies, visibility and email: who forwards your CV, who can see that you’re looking, and which mailbox the replies land in.
Your rights in the EU
Under the GDPR you can ask any company that holds your CV which data it has about you (Article 15, right of access) and have it deleted when there’s no longer a reason to keep it (Article 17, right to erasure). Most services have a delete-account option or a privacy contact for this; a short email naming the article is enough.
Where HireWire fits
HireWire is a job feed and application tracker that keeps your profile, CV text and pipeline in your browser, with no account. That takes care of one question above: your tracker. It doesn’t change your CV, your job-board settings or what you paste elsewhere. See exactly what HireWire stores and sends, or the checklist for judging any job tracker. If you need a CV without handing it to another service, the free CV builder runs entirely in your browser: no account, no upload, PDF download.
FAQ
Are my answers sent anywhere?
No. The score is worked out by JavaScript in this page. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged, and HireWire’s guide and tool pages load no analytics. Like every HireWire page, it loads its fonts from Google Fonts.
Is a high score bad?
It means your CV is in many places, some of them public. That’s common during an active search and easy to reduce: work through the fixes from the top, and repeat the check after your search ends.
Does the check judge specific job boards or AI tools?
No. Services and their settings change too often for that. The questions ask about what you did and what you can check yourself, such as a visibility setting or an extension’s permissions.
How do I get my CV deleted from a site?
Look for “delete account” in its settings first. If there isn’t one, write to its privacy contact asking for erasure under Article 17 GDPR, and ask under Article 15 which data they hold if you’re unsure what’s there.
Is there a German version?
Yes: Lebenslauf-Datenschutz-Check, with the same questions and scoring.
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