UK.Job-Central.com Marketing (10 Anson Road, #10-11 International Plaza Singapore, registration number: 53388996X) (hereinafter referred to as “us” or “we” or “UK.Job-Central.com”) provides permission-based marketing services to major national and international brands. Our clients receive sales leads from consumers who have given their consent to be contacted.
We are registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under registration number ZB454212.
We, as the responsible body, want to inform you about the type, scope, and goals of possible collection, storage, transmission, and/or use of personal data and in this regard already take into account the guidelines in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Corresponding standards are mentioned in this data protection declaration. You can reach our data protection officer at: [email protected]. With the present declaration, we inform you about aspects of our offer that are relevant.

Personal data collected and stored by us
When you take advantage of our offer and/or use our website by filling in the input fields and/or contact us and/or simply visit our website, personal data may be collected by us in the following ways: Personal data may be collected, which you make available to us by claiming our offer and/or by using our website. In particular, this also includes the personal data that you provide by filling in the input fields within the framework of participation in the prize competition or its further course in a survey in connection therewith or by using other offers. In this context, personal data is especially your name, your address, your email address, your telephone number, and any interests which are communicated in surveys. To the extent that you also enter into an agreement regarding our offer or give a declaration of intent regarding this, we also store the information about a possible order and method of payment in connection therewith. To the extent that, after the prize competition, you answer any questions about preferences, interests, usage behavior, etc., and/or your interests clearly emerge by signing a test subscription or the like, we also store this data in order to establish a personal user profile, which enables interest-based and optimized direct mail. We also collect and process personal data, which you make available to us by contacting us. Personal data, which can be collected through your visit to our website, in particular data volumes, location and time details, IP addresses, and other communication details, which is made available through the use of your computer. In addition to the aforementioned data, additional data such as, for example, local times, time zones, and usage data can also be additionally stored. Furthermore, statistical data during a visit to our website can be collected and used. Statistical data is, among other things, data about the use of a particular browser as well as its model. We may also use cookies and other methods to collect information about you when you visit our websites. This information may be added to the profile that you entered through one of our surveys. A cookie is a small piece of computer code that remains on your computer and contains information that helps us identify your browser and previous information viewed in relation to our website. When you visit our webpage, the cookie records certain details, including the date, time, and advertising content of that site. The information we collect in this way may include your Internet service provider’s address, date and time of your visit, pages accessed, and type of browser used. If you do not want us to use cookies, you can easily stop them or be notified when they are being used by adopting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do not allow cookies to be used, some or all of our websites might not be accessible to you.

Use of Your Personal Information
UK.Job-Central.com and our partners and clients use the personal information we collect for various purposes, including:

• to send you information, offers and promotions about products and services based on your preferences by mail, phone, SMS, instant messaging, web push notification or email;
• to enable brands to communicate with you based on the permissions and preferences you have selected in our surveys;
• to administer our database of personal information including improving and personalising marketing, updating the record we keep of you;
• to provide information to third parties to enable them to contact you with relevant and interesting offers; or for them to use the data to match or link it with their own data; or for on-selling the data to third parties for marketing purposes;
• to perform market analysis and research;
• to improve services, websites and content provided to visitors of webpages, apps and advertising including through the matching of data;
• to verify your identity and prevent others from misusing your details

Our trusted partners and clients, both sponsors of the site and particular surveys may wish to contact you based on your profile, but will only do so subject to your consent and preferences. Possible sectors that you may expect to receive advertisements about are:

Sector	Description/examples
General	Call center, data processor, marketing companies
Charity	animal welfare, disaster relief, children’s medical, elderly, environmental, health, social causes
Gaming/Gaming	bingo, betting, competitions, lottery, games of chance and skill
Leisure	food and drink, events, museums, cinema, entertainment
Financial Products	pensions, banking, credit cards, investments, loans, mortgages
ID Protection and Tracing	to help protect your identity and prevent fraud
Insurance	general, health, car, home, life, medical, pet, income protection, travel, warranty products
Health / Lifestyle	fitness, beauty, opticians, hearing, care homes, mobility, leisure, pharmaceuticals
Home Improvements	house moving, blinds & curtains, insulation, boilers, conservatories, doors & windows, extensions, gardens, solar panels
Funeral Plans	to arrange and pay for a funeral in advance
Legal Services	claims, will writing, will reviews
Mail Order	catalogs, online retailers
Market Research	to gather information about consumers' opinions and preferences
Media	online, television, radio, newspapers, magazines
Retail	online retail, electrical goods, comparison sites, discounts, FMCG, automotive, home improvement, Home Services, Nicotine and smoking alternative
Telecoms	landline, mobile phones, broadband, digital TV
Travel	holidays, city breaks, airlines, UK breaks, accommodation
Utilities	gas and electricity switching, other household utilities such as water

Legal Basis for Processing
When we process your personal data, we do so on the basis that we can rely on a legal basis for such processing. The legal bases on which we rely are:

• Legitimate Interest
  We handle personal information for several legitimate business purposes, which may include one or more of the following:
  • Enhancing our services to improve the customer experience, including verification and validation.
  • Tailoring communications to be more relevant and meaningful.
  • Gaining deeper insights into how our customers engage with our services.
  • Offering direct marketing communications that we believe will be of interest to you.
  • Evaluating the efficacy of both our promotional campaigns and those of our clients.
  • Identifying and preventing fraud.
  These legitimate business purposes correspond to the following activities:
  • Direct Marketing: This includes postal and telephone marketing conducted by both us and third parties. In either case, the communications will pertain to products or services we believe align with your interests, based on the information you've provided.
  • Profiling: We may profile your information for marketing purposes to assist our clients in delivering more relevant marketing communications. For additional information, please refer to the profiling section
  • ID Protection & Tracing: This involves collaborating with appropriate agencies to safeguard your identity and prevent fraud.
• Consent
  When you consent to a particular organisation to reach out to you through communication channels that you have expressly approved for specific purposes, within the context of our data processing, these purposes are primarily related to marketing. When we ask your consent for a particular organisation, we will provide you with the option to select or check a box online to indicate your agreement. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

We will not change our legal basis without your permission, and you can find a summary of the various purposes in the table provided below:

Purpose	For use by ourselves	For use by 3rd parties (our clients)
Marketing - by email	Consent	Consent - but only when you privde specific consent for a named organisation
Marketing - by SMS	Legitimate Interest	Consent - but only when you provide specific consent for a named orgainsation
Marketing - telephone	Consent - where your number is registered on the Telephone Preference Service. Legitimate Interest – where your number is not registered on the Telephone Preference Service.	Consent – but only when you provide specific consent for a named organisation. Legitimate Interest - where your number is not registered on the Telephone
Marketing - online (e.g. via social media)	Legitimate Interest	Legitimate Interest
Tracing, ID verification and credit reference	Legitimate Interest	Legitimate Interest
Profiling and analytics	Legitimate Interest	Legitimate Interest

Your Rights
According to the provisions of the UK GDPR, you have the following data protection rights

1. The right to be informed
   You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data, including: purposes for processing your personal data, the retention periods for your personal data, and who it will be shared with.
2. The right of access
   You have the right to access and receive a copy of your personal data, and other supplementary information.
3. The right to rectification
   You have the right to demand the rectification of any incorrect or inaccurate personal data we hold with respect to you.
4. The right to erasure
   You have the right to have your personal data erased if: (i) the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed; (ii) you have withdrawn your consent; or (iii) the data have been unlawfully processed.
5. The right to restrict processing
   You have the right to have your data with processing restriction by satisfying one of the prerequisites listed in Art. 18 (1) GDPR (e.g., contesting the accuracy of your personal data).
6. The right to data portability
   You are entitled to demand the provision by us of all personal data communicated to us in a format, which allows its transmission to another controller.
7. The right to object
   You have an absolute right to stop your data from being used for direct marketing.
8. Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.
   You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, except as allowed under applicable data protection laws
9. Right to withdraw consent at any time where relevant.
   You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your information at any time and we must provide you with the information to need to do so, at the time we collect your data and each time we contact you. You can withdraw consent by sending us an email to: [email protected];

Profiling
Profiling enables organisations to better understand who their customers are so they can make their marketing communications more relevant. We use some of the information you provide to match with our clients data so that they will better understand the characteristics of their customers, such as age, hobbies and interests. This only happens when you are both on Offerspalace database and you are a customer of our client. We do not give them specific information about you but we will tell them how many of the customers are male/female or live in a certain city. We also help identify whether or not you have similar attributes to a typical customer of our client so they can target you with offers of goods and services tailored to you. We will never profile you on the basis of ethnicity, religion, politics or health as these are not valid reasons for which you should be targeted for marketing purposes and nor do we collect this information. We also do not make automated decisions about you which have a negative impact on your rights. Marketing Services Providers we share your data with can also use profiling to target you for marketing purposes. Once again you can ask us to stop using your data in this way at any time.

Contact and Complaints
If you have any questions, feedback or wish to make a complaint, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected]
Alternatively, you may contact GRCI Law Limited whom we have appointed to act as our UK Representative. If you wish to exercise your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or have any queries in relation to your rights or privacy matters generally please email our Representative at [email protected] or post your request or query to:
UK Representative, GRCI Law Limited, Unit 3, Clive Court, Bartholomew’s Walk, Cambridgeshire Business Park, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4EA, UK
When contacting our Representative please ensure you include our name (UK.Job-Central.com Marketing) in any correspondence.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (the ICO) by writing to the Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or calling 0303 123 1113. Further information about how to do this can be found at: www.ico.org.uk.

Where and how long do we store your personal data and where can your data be exported

1. Your personal data is stored by us within the European Economic Area (EEA)
   Your data may be transferred to countries outside of the EEA or EU, to sponsors mentioned in our Sponsors List. These data transfers will be made on the basis of an Adequacy Decision where possible, there are Adequacy Decisions for Andorra, Argentina, Canada (for commercial operators), Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay. An Adequacy Decision means the regulations of these countries offer you the same level of protection as the EU. Where your data is transferred to a country that does not have an Adequacy Decision, we have contractual agreements and appropriate safeguards in place with each sponsor, based on standard clauses issued by the EU. These agreements ensure an appropriate and uniform protection of data at the level of European guidelines.
2. Safeguards for Transfers Not Covered by Adequacy Decisions
   If a transfer is not made on the basis of an adequacy decision, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with Articles 46, 47, or 49 of the UK GDPR. These safeguards may include:
   
   • Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): Agreements based on the standard contractual clauses issued by the EU to ensure an equivalent level of data protection.
   • Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs): Internal policies adopted by multinational groups of companies to ensure adequate protection of personal data across the group.
   • Explicit Consent: Obtaining explicit consent from individuals for specific data transfers.
   • Other Safeguards: Any other appropriate safeguards as per the UK GDPR.
   • Obtaining Information on Safeguards
   You can request more information on the safeguards we have put in place or obtain a copy of these safeguards by contacting our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].
3. As long as there is no removal or blocking in accordance with the rights exercised by you, your data is stored permanently with the aforementioned purposes.
   After you have withdrawn any consent to data processing and/or have explained your objection to this, we put you on our so-called blocking list. This means that we no longer use your personal data for marketing purposes and also no longer hand them over. We then still store your data for legal purposes (for example, for evidentiary obligations and to prevent and assert claims, etc.) and delete it after a further period of four years unless there are compelling reasons against this or if, however, a corresponding data processing is permitted for other reasons, for example in the form of renewed consent. In addition, we act in the same way if we have no longer used your personal data during a period of 24 months.
   Legal Obligations: While the GDPR does not specify exact retention periods for personal data, we retain it for four years to comply with various legal obligations. For example, businesses may need to keep records for tax, audit, or regulatory reasons. This retention period is aligned with limitation periods for bringing legal claims, ensuring that we meet statutory requirements.
   Evidentiary Purposes: Another key reason for retaining data for this period is to ensure that we can defend against legal claims or fulfill evidentiary obligations. Many jurisdictions, including the UK, have limitation periods (such as for contract or tort claims) which can last up to four years. Retaining data for this period allows us to safeguard our legal rights and comply with relevant laws.
4. How we secure your personal data
   We take the relevant precautions – administrative, organizational, technical and physical – to protect your personal data against loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, unauthorized transmission, unauthorized amendment and destruction.
   This means, that your data is protected by entry controls (securely located servers, access to which is only granted under defined security procedures), admission controls (individual password, menu and employee authorization, current virus software), access controls (individual employee access authorization via personal accounts, identification and authentication requirements), disclosure controls (constant supervision and guidance to authorized personnel, no local storage of data, recording of all data exports and transmission), input controls (account-related auditing, time-stamp and host logging), task auditing (constant supervision by managers and data protection officers, transparent contract structure in coordination with management and data protection officers) , back-up streaming to other general security procedures [e.g. UPS, halon gas systems, etc.], back-up streaming to other locations [with all security measures, see access controls] nightly mirroring onto two hard discs, virus protection program). Despite these precautions and due to the insecure nature of the Internet, we are unable to guarantee the security of your data transmission to our website. Any transmission of your data to our website is, therefore, undertaken at your own risk.

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Changes/additions
This privacy policy was last updated on 1 August 2024
UK.Job-Central.com will be able to change this privacy policy, especially if new laws or industry agreements arise which means that UK.Job-Central.com should change this or if UK.Job-Central.com considers it justified to change this for other reasons. This website, including the data protection declaration and the general terms and conditions, is not intended for minors. No personal data about minors is collected, used, and/or transmitted intentionally.

The first thing you should when you are looking for a new job is preparing your CV. On UK.Jobs-Central.com like on many other job sites you register with your details using our standard form. Nevertheless you should prepare your CV first to make sure you got all your data right. Also when you get invited by a potential employer you will most likely be asked to provide your own standalone CV as well. Consider this a example for the quality of work that you will deliver when hired.

proper contact data
Make sure to provide accurate contact data where employers can really reach you. Use a professional sounding webmail account (nothing weird or funny in the name).

share your achievements
A CV should list what you did and when but do not just make it a boring list. Add things that are interesting for the reader such as your achievements or special experiences that you gained

avoid unnecessary information
No need to add your primary school unless there is something special about it. Also certificates you took which sound boring are not relevant to the job you better skip.

clean CV
Make your CV look clean. It is the first piece of work that you show your employer so it better be perfect. Spelling mistakes and messy formatting really put employers off, especially if there is many candidates to chose from.

creative design
Make your CV look good and make use of fonts and formatting. You can also be very creative and give it a special design. However, be reasonable with it. The CV should still be easy and fast to read. Plus make the design match the position you apply for. If you apply as graphic designer you can take more freedom in the design than if you apply as a quality manager position.

Getting an offer for the right job that matches your interests and aspiration is the first big step. However, you still need to take that last step and negotiate your salary. Whatever you settle with in the beginning will be base of any future wage development in your new position so you better get this right. In international surveys just 5% of all employees state that they are entirely happy with their pay while a thrid express strong unhappiness with their salary. You want to make sure you are in the 5% or as close to that as possible. Your salary is not just money you can spend on stuff you enjoy or invest into the future. What you get paid is also putting a value on your work, contribution to your employer and the company's bottom line. You should get a pay that matches the value that you create.

There is many things to consider when negotiating for salary. We just want to focus on four main items to make this a managable list:
be confident and know your worth
Only if you are sure what you deserve and can express that convincingly will you be able to negotiate for your objectives. Explain what you can achieve based on your past performance in other jobs or other situations. Your argument should focus on the added value that you can create.

careful when you give a target range
Whenever you give a salary range you aspire you should be aware that your counterpart will focus on the bottom of your given range. Do not put that lower than what you could really be satisfied with.

get your timing right Only talk about salary when you almost got the job already. You will be in a much stronger position to negotiate if your prospective employer already reached a decision that you are the top candidate. If you talk to several people in the interviewing process make sure you understand who makes the decision on pay and focus your salary negotation on that person.

carefull with bluffing Do not go far too high or make claims that are not untrue. If the employer is not accepting your salary request you need to be able to turn it around and accept something lower without losing face. So you need to consider this as well: How urgently do you want a job? How important is this particular position for your career? Based on that decide how low you can really go and keep your option open.

Many are afraid of scam jobs when looking for a job online . Yes this is indeed something that does exist and you should be aware of it. However, the good news is that it is actually something quite rare and such a scam is not that difficult to spot. A scam job offer is basically created to make you pay some money for something that has no value. An alternative scam, could be to get your help with some illegal activity such as money laundering.
How do you spot a scam job offer?
The simple answer to this question is really to use your common sense. Just do some basic research on the potential employer and you will usually quickly find out if it is a real and genuine business.

• Ask for the company website. If that does not exist or looks weird you should be very sceptical. Look at their website and check if it describes the company's business in a way that matches what the potential employer told you. You can also check out when the website domain was first set-up. Go to a service like Domain Age Checker to find out when this company page was created.
• Is the employer only using a webmailer address such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail? Ask for a company email address. Even if they like using their Gmail account they should have some company email that matches their corporate website.
• Are you being contact through social media such as Facebook for the job? That is an immediate alarm signal. It can happen that somebody contacts you through Facebook for a job but it is really rare. If you do get contacted through social media ask for a company email also.
• Do you get an offer that sounds to good to be true? Be on your guard, it maybe just not true and only put on the table to lure you into something else. If you get a job offer too quickly without even a proper interview process that should make you think. Also if you are being offer a ridiculously high salary that makes no sense it could be a sign that something is dishonest about the person you are dealing with. If this happens you should intensify the research about the company to make sure they are genuine.
• Check out social networks yourself. You should be able to find other people that work for the potential employer. Most larger companies should have staff that is present on LinkedIn. Search this professional social network for people working at your potential employer. If that does not yield anything you can also check other social media such as Facebook to see if there is people stating that they work for this company.
• Is the potential employer asking you to pay some admin fee for your application? That should never be the case and is reason to walk away. Is there any expense that they ask you to pay first and be reimbursed alter? That could happen under certain circumstances. If you ever face this situation you should just ask yourself if it is reasonable or practical that they ask you to work this way. If not it might be better to forgo the apparent opportunity.

With these simple checks you can make sure you do not fall for a scam. You should be on your guard but there is no reason to panic. It is quite easy to stay safe.

Aspiring to find a great job to build your career is the right thing to do. You should not just find any job but something that is really good. After all we spend a high portion of our life-time working. So you better spend this time on something that you like and find rewarding. Whether this is a perfect job match is questionable but we think we should really find a great job.

get your objectives right
The first thing you should do to find your perfect job is to write down what you really want. What are your intentions and what do you want to achieve? You should think about the areas you are interested to work in. Also consider what your strengths and weaknesses are. If you cannot succeed in a particular career because of of lack of motivation or skills you will not gain in the long run. Think also about the long term prospects and potential salaries in the industry you are interested in. Are these jobs safe in the future?

scan the market
Once you decided what jobs you want to consider check out the job market. Sign-up with your profile on our UK.Jobs-Central.com and see what jobs match your profile. Also scan both our listings as well as other online job portals and jobs in newspapers. If you do this regularly for a few weeks you will get a good idea of what jobs are currently on offer. Learn about different job titles and job descriptions and find what are the ones that meet your wish list. You will also see which companies are hiring a lot and are currently expanding.

apply for enough open positions
When you found what you are looking for you should obviously apply for the job. However, remember that you may not be successful right away. Doing applications and going through interviews is a learning process. You can learn from the experience and improve your CV and application over time. Also each interview is an opportunity to get better at talking with potential employers. Becuae of this learning curve you really want to make sure you gain experience. If you do not get invited for your dream job at first you should apply for other somewhat related positions. Even if you are not interested this is a chance to get an interview and learn in the process.

Most of us use social media and many use them every day and many times per day. However, many job applications do not understand how important social media have become for finding a employment. Nowadays social media can be a way to get you a job but at the same time the same social media may also make you lose out in the selection process for an open position.

social medial can get you a job
Through your private social media contacts you may actually be able to become aware of job openings. Share your career objectives or aspirations with your close friends. If they come across something they might share with you some job opportunity that is not even being advertised publicly. A friend of a friend could become a new employer.
More important for your job hunt is your professional social media account. There is a number of professional social media networks but by far the most important one is LinkedIn. The importance of creating and maintaining a proper profile on LinkedIn is still underestimated by many candidates. You should treat your LinkedIn profile like a public CV. There is head hunters and HR managers who actually search for profiles on LinkedIn to identify potential candidates. In addition to updating your profile you should also make it a habit to regularly expand your network. Add people that you met as business contacts to grow your connections. Search for people in companies that interest you and try to link up with them. In the long run these can become important connections.

social medial can make you not get a job
An international survye of HR managers showed that more than 20% decision makers check candidates social media profiles before hiring a person. In some industries such as banking or advertising there is even close to 30% of HR managers checking on this. The social media networks that are most often checked include LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Most of the time when such checks strongly influence a hiring decision it is in a negative way. A harmless, friendly Facebook account will not have any major impact on your job hunt. However, if your comments or pictures on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter show something that looks negative or questionable an employer may decide to avoid the risk and not hire you. Keep this in mind when you make public comments or appearances on social media. They can really backfire. So the best recommendation is moderation. Restrain yourself when you express political views, be careful what you LIKE or negatively comment on, do not write anything that you might regret tomorrow. A clean and friend profile is what you should aim for.