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Hiring: 70% of Employers Use Social Media to Screen Candidates

HR Daily Advisor

Before posting pictures of your late-night revelry or complaints about your job on social media, think again—70% of employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, up significantly from 60% last year and 11% in 2006. Candidate posted information about them drinking or using drugs: 38%.

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Hiring? Social Media Content Is Often a Deal Breaker

HRWatchdog

Employers frequently turn to social networking sites to find additional information on potential candidates — and what they find often results in a decision not to hire, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey. Not So Fast — California Puts the Brake on Some Social Media Researching . What’s Out There May Not Be Good .

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Jan Van Bruaene: “Hang out with your remote team”

Thrive Global

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jan Van Bruaene, Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Jan joined RTI in 2006 and has over 23 years of experience in technical and customer-facing leadership roles at companies such as Sun Microsystems and VLSI Technology. In 2006, I joined Real-Time Innovations. I was wrong.

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Vytenis Pak?nas of isLucid: “It’s important to empower your team”

Thrive Global

Now we operate on Microsoft Teams environment and have plans to introduce our product to more widely accepted video conferencing tools. And then came video calls. As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Vytenis Pak?nas. Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! And so on…What’s next?

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How Lydia Liu of ETS tackles the extreme work life balance with Penny Bauder

Thrive Global

As a part of my series about how women leaders in tech and STEM are addressing these new needs, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lydia Liu. Lydia Liu is a Senior Research Director in Research & Development at ETS. I can think of a funny story that happened during my interview process with ETS.

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Using Social Media in Hiring: Necessary? Legal? Ethical?

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

It is likely that you check your social media accounts first thing when you wake up in the morning and the last thing before you go to sleep at night. What does this mean for the hiring process? There are two ways that social media is being used in support of the hiring process. Social media now pervades our society.

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“Leadership visibility” With Charlie Katz & Chuck Stokes

Thrive Global

As part of my series about the “Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective Leader During Turbulent Times”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chuck Stokes, BSN, MHA, FACHE. I never returned to the clinical setting, but the clinical background proved to be instrumental in my career success. Be sensitive to the pain.