BASALT · JOURNAL
PDF redaction for recruiters and hiring teams
Recruiting teams share resumes, interview notes, references, and offer documents with hiring managers and vendors. The hiring decision may need skills and experience without exposing every personal identifier.
Match fields to the decision
Keep experience, skills, dates, and role evidence needed by the reviewer. Redact home addresses, personal phone numbers, emails, government IDs, compensation, and references when they are not required. Remove unrelated candidates from combined packets.
Review more than the resume page
Inspect cover letters, portfolios, comments, interview notes, metadata, and embedded files. Search OCR and form fields for contact data. Be careful with screenshots that include email windows or file paths.
Verify the hiring copy
Export a new file, search for the candidate’s identifiers, inspect pages at high zoom, and check attachments. Keep the original application packet in the recruiting system and record who received the derivative.
Frequently asked questions
Should a recruiter redact compensation?
Only when the reviewer does not need it and policy allows the field to be withheld.
Are resumes always safe to forward internally?
No. They can contain addresses, phone numbers, personal emails, and portfolio metadata.
What about references?
Treat reference contact details as personal information and share them only with an approved audience.
Doing it in Basalt
Basalt provides a private Mac workflow for redacting candidate PDFs and verifying the release before internal sharing. Download Basalt.
Redaction that proves itself
Basalt destroys the content you mark, then re-opens the file it wrote and proves the content is gone before it saves anything. Your documents never leave your Mac.