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Dos & Don’ts of Screening Your Candidates Online

TalentCulture

Should employers use social media to screen candidates? A good question without a right answer; it’s a gray area both in the law and company policies, especially because many employers don’t even have a social media policy. First, let’s take a look at how many in HR say that they use social media in the hiring process.

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The Hot Potatoes Of Social Screening

TalentCulture

The context, which I did take 30 seconds to digest, was a story about a police officer that had been cut up by an assailant (not sure if it was true or not and didn’t take the time to fact check). I mean, where’s usually the first place most sourcers, recruiters, HR folks and hiring managers go today when screening a candidate?

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Your Job Candidate Has Criminal Record? Don’t Panic.

TalentCulture

It’s that alarming moment when the background check reveals that your top job candidate has a criminal record. In fact, there are five key steps that will help you determine whether or not your candidate should be disqualified and, at the same time, how you can stay compliant with state and federal screening laws. Hiring Matrix.

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#TChat Recap: Leveraging Social Recruiting Legally

TalentCulture

Finding talent is a tough business, but screening candidates becomes too delicate of a process to simply let content on a candidate’s social profile affect their candidacy. This week, our community was joined by: Jason Morris , Co-Founder, COO and President of EmployeeScreenIQ; and Nick Fishman , Co-Founder, EVP and CMO of EmployeeScreenIQ.

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Help EmployeeScreenIQ with its 6th annual Employment Background Screening Survey

Ohio Employer's Law

EmployeeScreenIQ is conducting its 6th annual Employment Background Screening Survey. According to the company: In its 2015 survey, EmployeeScreenIQ again sets out to capture the various influences on employers'' hiring practices and how they respond when adverse information is revealed.

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The Prevalence and the Practice of Social Media Screening—The Dos and Don’ts

HR Daily Advisor

Today, Morris, who is president of EmployeeScreenIQ of Cleveland, Ohio, reveals his tips for social media screening. Does your organization conduct online media searches as a means of screening candidates in the hiring process? The companies that do conduct such searches report searching the following sites: LinkedIn.

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Secret Santa: Background Checks & Holiday Temp Workers

TalentCulture

I also see a temporary worker who likely didn’t undergo a proper background check. Not necessarily always down the darkest of roads (though sadly, you’d be shocked at how often “Santa” gets hired without a proper sex offender registry search), but simply through the facts and realities. A Google search is NOT a background check!