Ever heard of someone who was fired for inappropriate comments about his organization on facebook or shopping picture they posted on instagram while being on sick leave? Or maybe how just a casual tweet about that female colleague over Twitter resulted in HR review. Though these are true stories, chances are that you would not have come across such an incident as they are not so common yet.
Another area of such an application is Background Screening of new hires and increasing number of Employers are getting innovative at it. After-all organizational culture is of utmost importance to them. Social media is also often used by Risc Curis Clients to validate salient claims of prospective employees and their references. One of Risc Curis Clients from banking sector, recently requested us to innovate and have the effectiveness of their Employment and Reference Checks improved. Solution found was through screening of social media profiles of their candidates and cross-validate the genuineness of detail candidates gave regarding their Employment Tenure, Role, Reporting Managers and Professional References. This has been done in addition to the existing traditional background screening process, and has proven to be a fast and more efficient way of screening candidates.
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And as more and more Employers are agreeing to this additional aspect of Employee Background Verification, any inappropriate social networking presence can cause problems before you even start your career.
It is only a matter of time when more and more, hiring managers in India will start turning to social media to also scope out job applicants. According to our research, 67% of hiring managers in India have expressed interest in knowing more on using the Web to look up information about applicants, and a significant 35% are ready to try this method and let it contribute to their decision making to reject if negative content is discovered.
The undeniable reality of living in the internet age is that the things we do online will have an impact in our offline lives.
Scraping of an individual’s social media profiles can be done sooner than you think and data can be analysed before that individual joins the company, flagging any objectionable content.
