Re: Enabling a job applicant to resume a submission later

[Clifford Collins <collinsc () FRANKLIN EDU>]

Thank you to everyone who replied to my query. The IT analyst I referred to earlier was grateful for your ideas and 
feedback. He was thinking along similar lines to Jeffrey Schiller's suggestion with the added feature of e-mailing the 
applicant a hyperlink with a very long hexadecimal access code attached. The hyperlink would take them back to the form 
with the last set of answers they saved and allow them to continue until they hit the submit button. Then the access 
code would be destroyed. Obviously, one of the first fields to be filled out and saved by an applicant would be their 
e-mail address. 

Again, thanks to all of you who thought about this challenge and responded! 

Clifford A. Collins 
Information Security Officer 
Franklin University 
201 South Grant Avenue 
Columbus, Ohio 43215 
"Security is a process, not a product" 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clifford Collins" <collinsc () franklin edu> 
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:08:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Enabling a job applicant to resume a submission later 


Folks, 
I've been approached by one of IT's analysts about a potential project our HR department is contemplating that would 
enhance our current, home-spun, online job application service. HR wishes to allow a job applicant to resume filling 
out an application over the course of multiple sessions and over many days. 

We are still a year or more away from implementing an IdM solution that would enable us to give them a unique login. 
Also, I would not assume they would use the same workstation each time. The analyst has his own idea for a solution but 
I am interested in first finding out what you list members might think of for a solution. 

Do any of you have or can you suggest an interim solution? What are the privacy and/or security considerations? 

Thanks for your help! 

Clifford A. Collins 
Information Security Officer 
Franklin University 
201 South Grant Avenue 
Columbus, Ohio 43215 
"Security is a process, not a product"