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Terms of usage for the Applicant Market of the DHBW Karlsruhe

Purpose of the Applicant Market

The Applicant Market should introduce prospective students to our cooperative partner companies so that the articles of apprenticeship can be completed and a dual study program can be started at the Cooperative University in Karlsruhe. Prospective students insert the relevant information in their profile so that the cooperative partners can determine whether the candidate would come into question for them. The cooperative partners can use the message function to contact the prospective applicants.
Durch die Bewerberbörse sollen Studieninteressierte für duale Studiengänge mit unseren Dualen Partnerunternehmen in Kontakt gebracht werden, so dass letztlich ein Ausbildungsvertrag geschlossen und ein duales Studium an der Dualen Hochschule Karlsruhe aufgenommen wird. Interessenten tragen in ihr Profil relevante Informationen ein, anhand derer die ausbildenden Unternehmen beurteilen können, ob eine Zusammenarbeit infrage kommt. Die Partnerunternehmen können über eine eingebaute Nachrichtenfunktion mit den ausgesuchten Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern in Kontakt treten.

The Applicant Market is an addition to the Partner Database on the website of the DHBW Karlsruhe (https://www.dhbw-karlsruhe.de/nc/duale-partner/liste-der-dualen-partner/).

Access to the Applicant Market

In order to access the functions of the Applicant Market, a user account and password is required. Without a user account limits the use of the Applicant Market to the public websites with the description of the service.

Authorization of usage for the creation of an application profile

If you have university entrance qualifications and interest in studying at the DHBW Karlsruhe, then you are allowed the use the service for free and can set up a user profile. The use for all other people is denied.

You can change the information on your profile at any time.

Authorization of usage for cooperative partners

Cooperative Partners of the DHBW Karlsruhe automatically have the right to use this service. The persons responsible in the recruiting centers in the companies will be written to by the DHBW Karlsruhe and will receive a company account. If you do not receive this information, please write an email to the following address: bewerberboerse@dhbw-karlsruhe.de.

Use of the application data by the cooperative partners

The cooperative partners ensure that, by registering on the Applicant Market, the data of the applicants will only be used to fill specific apprenticeship positions in connection with a Dual Study program. It is forbidden to use this data for other purposes and to give it to third parties. The cooperative partners ensure that they will follow the rules as stated in the Federal Privacy Protection law. Applicant data that does not lead to a placement in a company must be destroyed.

General code of conduct for applicants

The following code of conduct is accepted when registering an applicant profile:

  • Each person is only allowed to create one profile.
  • The information on the profile must be truthful. The information has to refer to the person whose name appears on the profile and entered by this person. A third party is not allowed to enter information onto the profile.
  • The applicant profile has to be protected against inappropriate use. Registration information is not allowed to be given away to others.
  • It is not allowed to have access to other applicant profiles or other areas of the Applicant Market.
  • All applicable legal regulations are to be strictly followed, especially the terms relating to the protection of copyrights and other intellectual property, the rights on the profile picture, personal data, company and business secrets, and other forms of confidential information.
  • Communication over the message function has to be polite and businesslike. Inquiries from companies have to be answered no later than seven days after the message has been sent.

The DHBW Karlsruhe reserves the right to delete the account without warning and deactivate access to the Applicant Market if serious violations of the code of conduct has been committed.

In order to prevent inappropriate use of the Market, cooperative partners have the possibility to report peculiar profiles. These profiles will be take down after a review by the DHBW Karlsruhe. The DHBW Karlsruhe will also do random checks of user profiles. Fake and humorous profiles will be deleted. The DHBW Karlsruhe explicitly reserves the right to prosecute inappropriate use.

Review and validation of the provided email address

The Double Opt-In-procedure has been used for the creation of the applicant profile. This means that an email with an activation link will be sent to the email address provided in the profile after the creation of the user account. After the activation of the link, the user account and applicant profile will be officially created. This way, the email address provided can be used for communication with potential companies.

Consent to data processing

By creating an applicant profile and additional usage of this offer, applicants agree to the inquiry, processing, and saving of their personal data and the access for employees from cooperative partners of the DHBW Karlsruhe as well as the administrators of the DHBW Karlsruhe as described in the following sections.

By creating a company profile and the log in on the website, the cooperative partners agree to the inquiry, processing, and saving of their personal data from the administrators of the DHBW Karlsruhe as described in the following sections.

Details about the inquiry, processing, and saving of personal data can be found in the Data protection notice for the Applicant Market.

Difference between deactivating and deleting an applicant profile

If you deactivate your applicant profile, it is no longer visible for the companies, but it can be reactivated at a later point in time.

If you have deleted your applicant profile, your personal data is irrevocably deleted.

Automatic deletion of applicant profiles

The applicant profile will automatically be deleted after 150 days in order to ensure that the data in the Applicant Market is up-to-date.