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What should you check before sharing hiring data?

Start with the information needed to discuss the role. A job description, expected working hours and business contact are enough to begin a conversation. Keep passport scans, bank details and employee files out of that first message.

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Treat hiring records and access to your company's systems as separate decisions. A person reviewing a resume does not need production credentials. A developer completing an interview exercise should receive a test environment with synthetic data.

What do tax-document instructions tell you about sharing records?

The IRS directs foreign individuals who meet the stated conditions to give Form W-8 BEN to the withholding agent or payer. Its instructions identify a specific recipient for a specific purpose. IRS guidance on Form W-8 BEN.

For your hiring workflow, confirm the recipient before requesting or forwarding a tax document. Ask your tax or payroll contact which form is appropriate for the arrangement. Do not add tax documents to a folder shared with everyone conducting interviews.

Apply that same recipient check to other records. Before sharing an interview recording, ask who needs the recording itself and whether written notes would meet the need. Before requesting identity documents, confirm who will review them and how they should be delivered.

These are steps for reviewing a hiring workflow. They do not establish how any particular website collects or retains personal information.

How should privacy checks differ across nearshore hiring models?

Use the proposed contract to map who handles each record. Ask each party to confirm its responsibilities before the search begins.

For each model, record where data is stored and who can download it. Ask how access changes when an interviewer leaves the company or a search closes.

Keep a separate plan for the developer's work accounts. Name the person who approves access and the person who removes it at the end of the engagement.

What should you ask a provider before sending sensitive records?

Request written answers that your hiring and security teams can use:

• What information do you collect from buyers and candidates, and for what purpose?
• Who receives it, including vendors that process documents or interview recordings?
• In which countries will it be stored or accessed?
• How long do you keep unsuccessful applications, recordings and onboarding documents?
• How can someone request access, correction or deletion?
• Who should we contact if records reach the wrong recipient?
• Are candidate materials entered into AI tools, and what controls apply?

Ask for the privacy notice alongside any proposed data-handling terms. Have the provider explain which terms apply to your company and which apply to candidates.

For the initial conversation, share the role requirements and describe any restrictions on handling personal data. Save sensitive attachments for an agreed channel.

Talk to Opus about a role.

What should you confirm with Opus?

Opus states: "The client chooses the finalist and manages day-to-day work."

Build your access review around that division of work. Decide which repositories the hire needs, who approves access and when permissions will be reviewed. Use a separate account for each person so your team can remove access without changing shared credentials.

Ask Opus how candidate records move between its team and yours. Request the privacy notice before sending identity or payroll documents. Confirm the contact for a deletion request and the steps for reporting an accidental disclosure.

Keep those answers with the hiring agreement so the people running interviews and onboarding can follow the same process.

Talk to Opus about a role.

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