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#TChat Recap: Leveraging Social Recruiting Legally

TalentCulture

Leveraging Social Recruiting Legally. Using social recruiting to determine if a candidate is worth investing in is a sensitive process. 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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Dos & Don’ts of Screening Your Candidates Online

TalentCulture

According to recent data from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 77 percent of all employers surveyed “are increasingly using social networking sites for recruiting, primarily as a way to attract passive job candidates.” A significant portion of employers do use social media but not for screening job candidates.

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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. According to EmployeeScreenIQ’s Survey, about 63% of organizations do not; about 30% do the searches internally; and about 7.5% Yesterday’s Advisor shared Jason Morris’s earned and not-so-earned (i.e.,

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The Hot Potatoes Of Social Screening

TalentCulture

I mean, where’s usually the first place most sourcers, recruiters, HR folks and hiring managers go today when screening a candidate? We Google them and more, right? And we search for them via social media to see what’s up in the virtual world — even if we don’t admit it (or admit they based hiring decisions on what they find).