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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. A significant portion of employers do use social media but not for screening job candidates.

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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. What should you do?

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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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Americans Much in Favor of Background Checks

HRExecutive

Granted, the company announcing this research has some “skin in the game,” as we sometimes say around here, but this study — which was explained to me in some detail at the recent SHRM16 conference in Washington — bears sharing. Kelton Global conducted the research.).

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#TChat Recap: Mending Employee And Employer Relations

TalentCulture

Because at the end of the day: People want connection to their company – through belief in the products, excitement about the path, relationships with people etc. View this week’s BlogTalkRadio preview: Using Social Media to Recruit, Screen and Assess, Legally. Cheryl Fullerton (@cherylannmc) December 4, 2014.

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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. Today is one of those days.