The Cost Of Being Social- Employee background Checks

For some employees, Social media is an outlet for their personal expressions. In spite of their need to over share personal information or their questionable behaviors, many in the job pool believe that their personal lives should remain private. Any digging into social media sites would therefore constitute a violation of their privacy. This puts potential employers in a precarious position if they decide to use social media as a part of their pre employment screening.

With privacy and security controls available on such social media websites and networks, it should reasonably fall to the responsibility of a job candidate to keep their sites private and block public viewing. If they do not want the Internet documentation of their activities, they should take the responsibility to maintain their privacy controls.

In response to the business need for a social networking arena there are sites specifically designed and created for the working individual. These sites give potential employers unofficial employee background checks that are allowable for hiring purposes.

Since the site is to be shared within the professional community, instead of a personal network of friends and family, employers are welcomed more freely to investigate through those networks. The down side to using these for informal pre employment screening is that the job applicant puts the information on the site. It is at their discretion what is posted and what is omitted.

While the debate continues to surround social media as a viable way to conduct employee background checks, it is probably best to have a more traditional pre employment screening weed out your job candidates.

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