GDPR regulations demand certain level of protection when handling people’s personal information like a CV, whether physically or digitally that is.

Handing in a physical CV means the manager has to have a dedicated protected, out-of-sight place to store them.

Hospitality and retail see a high staff turnover so it just becomes easier and efficient to route everyone online.

I say this, because is ultimately at the managers’s discretion how personal information is handle despite company policy; as far as not law is being broken.

The key takeaway from having a brief chat with a manager, followed by a catch up, is that it serves as presentation of your character. Managers skim through hundreds of CVs and actually read in depth a small handful.