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#TChat Preview: Legally Leverage Social Media In Recruitment

TalentCulture

Last week we celebrated the four-year anniversary of #TChat and talked about the future of the employee-employer relationship, and this week we’re going to talk about how to legally leverage social media in the recruitment process and more. Where’s the first place most recruiters go today when screening a candidate?

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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. 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. What’s Up Next?

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Dos & Don’ts of Screening Your Candidates Online

TalentCulture

Should employers use social media to screen candidates? A significant portion of employers do use social media but not for screening job candidates. Far fewer employers — just 20 percent — use social sites or online search engines to screen job candidates. Take a look at these three key legal concerns.

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The Hot Potatoes Of Social Screening

TalentCulture

And, because of the industry I’m in and the perspective I usually take, I imagined if I were an employer looking at public candidate profiles across social and professional networks as part of my pre-employment screening process, finding these horrible hot potatoes along the way. We Google them and more, right? No longer in consideration.

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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? Do create a written policy for using social media in the background-screening process.

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Credentials? Sure, I Have Three Degrees (Wink, Wink)

HR Daily Advisor

Recruiters beware! Morris, who is president of EmployeeScreenIQ in Cleveland, Ohio, started his discussion of background checking with a review of his degrees. In tomorrow’s Advisor , Morris’ take on who is doing social media screening and where they do it.

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#TChat Recap: Mending Employee And Employer Relations

TalentCulture

We’ll be discussing Using Social Media to Recruit, Screen and Assess, Legally during our Social Hour on #TChat with our guest hosts: Nick Fishman , Chief Marketing Officer, EmployeeScreenIQ, and Jason Morris , Founder, EmployeeScreenIQ. #TChat Next Wednesday, Dec.