Powertex Technical Placements Pty Ltd offers a service to both our client and candidate. You are welcome to send us your updated employment details or skills as they change over time. Similarly you can request we remove your details from our database. Bear in mind, we give our personal opinion on you to our clients.

What your personal information is:

Personal information is any information or an opinion (whether true or not) about you. It would include the opinions of others about your work performance (whether true or not), your work experience and qualifications, aptitude test results and other information obtained by us in connection with your possible work placements.

Personal information includes sensitive information as defined in privacy legislation. It could include, for example, relevant information about your health status or information obtained lawfully via a criminal history check.

Under privacy laws we only collect personal information if it is necessary for the performance of one or more of our tasks or functions and, subject to the exceptions set out in privacy law, we would not collect sensitive information without your consent.

Who will be collecting your personal information:

Your personal information will be collected by Powertex Technical Placements Pty Ltd for its own use and on behalf of our clients who might require access to your personal information in connection with your work placements. We only forward your resume to clients where you have given us permission to do so.

How to contact us:

If you wish to contact us about your personal information you should contact:

Johanna Mussolino
Candidate Care
johanna@powertex.com.au
during normal office hours which are 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

How your information will be collected:

Personal information will be collected when you submit your CV and from our consultants interview notes and phone calls.
Personal information will also be collected when:

• we receive results of any reference that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues, professional associations or registration body;
• we receive the results of any competency or medical test;
• we receive performance feedback (whether positive or negative);
• we receive any complaint from or about you in the workplace;
• we receive any information about a workplace accident in which you are involved;
• we receive any information about any insurance investigation, litigation, registration or professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry in which you are involved;
• you provide us with any additional information about you.

How your information will be used:

Your personal information may be used in connection with:

• your actual or possible work placement;
• your performance appraisals;
• our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
• any test or assessment (including medical tests and assessments) that you might be required to undergo;
  our identification of your training needs;
• any workplace rehabilitation;
• our management of any complaint, investigation or inquiry in which you are involved;
• any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal information.

Your personal information may be disclosed to:

• potential and actual employers and clients of Powertex Technical Placements Pty Ltd;
• referees;
• our insurers;
• a professional association or registration body that has a proper interest in the disclosure of your personal information;
• a Workers Compensation body;
• our contractors and suppliers – e.g. our I.T. contractors and database designers
• any person with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information.

If you do not give us the information we seek:

• we may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you;
• we may be limited in our ability to place you in work;

You can gain access to your information to correct it if it is wrong:
Subject to some exceptions which are set out in the National Privacy Principles (Principle 6 – Access and Correction), you have a right to see and have a copy of personal information about you that we hold.

If you are able to establish that personal information that we hold about you is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, we will take reasonable steps to correct it so that it is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

If we are unable to agree that personal information that we hold about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date, you may ask us to place with the information a statement by you that claims that particular information is not accurate, complete and up-to-date.

If you wish to exercise your rights of access and correction you should contact our Administration Officer, whose details are shown above.
In some cases we may impose a moderate charge for providing access to personal information. We will not charge you simply because you lodge a request for access.

26 June 2007