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This question is about interviewer resumes.
Can an interviewer write on a resume?
No, an interviewer cannot write on a resume. Many HR teams will, for this reason, recommend as a best practice that interviewing notes be taken on a separate piece of paper.
There are a few reasons for this. Typically, after-interview feedback should be written up, and, except as required by some state laws, interviewing notes should be destroyed. Resumes, however, are usually kept on file. Leaving notes on a candidate's resume could lead to other people reading these notes.
To ensure the privacy of the candidate and the highest standards of the interview, it's important to keep this feedback separate from personal information. This is because you can be liable for any notes you take hastily on the resume that could later be viewed as discriminatory.
When the interviewer prints a copy of the resume, which is separate from the master copy that HR files away, that copy is their copy to do with as they please. The copied resume, in that case, would not constitute an employment record UNTIL you make notes on it. Then it is considered company record, and the whole liability issue comes up again.
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