Social Media Background Checks

Many employers now use the internet as an additional tool in checking the background of candidates.  There are potential challenges and liabilities with conducting such searches, including the following: Online searches can produce “results” on hundreds or thousands of people with the same name as your candidate.  For that reason,…

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Employers Facing Social Media Policy Challenges

“Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies…” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media Social media has expanded exponentially in recent years, leaving many businesses and their employees in uncharted territory. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, Instant Messaging… and countless others means of humans interacting electronically. People are interacting…

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