As explained above, the information that you supply will, in the main, be used to consider your suitability for interview. If you are successful, it will be held on your record and will be retained for the rest of your employment with the Ministry of Defence.
It will be used to consider, for example, where your skills could be most effectively deployed. The record will be added to throughout your career with records of your reckonable service, pension entitlement, job moves throughout the Department, attendance details, assessment and development reports, qualifications gained and other relevant information. Once you have left the Department, most of the information on your record will be retained for 100 years from your date of birth.
As an equal opportunities employer, the Ministry of Defence may also use the information provided in this and associated forms for monitoring and statistical analysis e.g. age, disability, ethnic minority profiling etc in order to comply with our equal opportunities policies and commitments and for the progression of equal opportunity issues.
Once employed by the Department, this may also include you being contacted direct by authorised personnel in the pursuance of our equal opportunity goals.
If you are not successful, in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Code, your record will be retained for 12 months from the date of your latest unsuccessful application.
This is so that those running the recruitment campaign are in a position to demonstrate that they have complied with the principles of fair and open competition.
After this period has expired, your application record, and any other additional information that was collated as part of the recruitment process will be destroyed.