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Social Media Background Checks (AHL-SCN-41)

Updated: Jun 23

Social Media Searches provide vital information to assist employers in making sound hiring decisions by identifying job-relevant behaviors such as bigotry, sexism, & violence.

Some employers perform a quick scan of Public Profiles on major Social Media Websites, while others conduct In-depth Scans of Blogs, comment sections & other traces of a Candidate’s Digital Activity. Information found on social media can confirm details on a candidate’s application & real new insights about how they conduct themselves.

Our Social Media Background Checks

Running Legal Background Checks on Job Candidates is a standard part of the Hiring Process, but some companies are also starting to research their candidates on Social Media in addition to reviewing their Legal History.

Reviewing the Social Media of potential employees can provide you with useful insights but may also cause challenges based on hiring bias. Understanding the basics of Social Media Background Checks before using them on job candidates can help you get the most out of the process.

Analyzing Publicly Available Online Information For Problematic Behavior

Social Media Searches provide vital information to assist employers in making sound hiring decisions by identifying job-relevant behaviors such as bigotry, sexism, & violence.

Our solution searches thousands of publicly available Social Media Profiles, Posts, Likes & Shares (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Blogs, Articles, etc.) to help companies ensure a safe workplace, avoid PR disasters, & preserve the integrity of your brand. Content will be searched & flagged according to the employer's defined set of criteria.

What Are Social Media Background Checks?

Social Media Background Checks are the practice of reviewing a Potential Employee’s Social Media & Web Presence to ensure they are an appropriate fit for a position.

Information found on social media can confirm details on a candidate’s application & real new insights about how they conduct themselves.

Benefits Of Our Checking A Candidate’s Social Media

The content applicants post on their social media can give hiring managers an idea of each candidate’s character. Searching the Social Media Accounts of job applicants can help your hiring team make a fully informed decision through a range of benefits:

Vetting Culture Fit Some people post about their values, goals & personality on their social media profiles, allowing you to get a sense of how they could contribute to the company culture. A Social Media Background Check can ensure that applicants uphold your company’s mission even when they are not on the clock.

Identifying Warning Signs A review of applicant Social Media Posts can alert you to erratic or concerning behaviors that could cause liability issues for the business or cause friction among current staff. Social Media Background Checks can reveal if candidates were dishonest during their application or have any potentially damaging information posted online.

Protecting Your Company’s Image If your company has a prominent image, you may need to have high standards when it comes to your employees’ public image, including their public posts online. Employees who make offensive or concerning posts on social media may be traced back to their employer & cause bad publicity.

Our Social Media Background Checks Benefits

Trying to conduct Social-media Searches manually is exceptionally challenging & fraught with potential concerns. Due to the high volume of online content that must be reviewed, employers can easily miss critical information & leave themselves vulnerable to legal issues by inadvertently viewing protected class information.

Augustus Hall Limited® solution helps highlight behaviors that put companies at risk by providing the following benefits:

We review thousands of posts in a fraction of the time it would take to conduct ordinarily.

We escalate relevant cases for review per employer's defined criteria.

We confirm that the social media record belongs to the applicant, using both technology & human analysis.

We focus solely on job-relevant information & limits exposure to protected class information that would otherwise be revealed.

Key Features Our Social Media Background Checks

Employer identifies screening criteria to be used based on relevant risk factors deemed appropriate for their company.

Analyzes publicly available data found on the internet quickly, cutting through thousands of results to identify only relevant behaviors.

Our solution reviews both content & context & could read text & images like a person.

Utilizes both automated technology & human analysis.

User-friendly report layout which simplifies decision making

Solution updated frequently with new sources, flags & language.

Our Service Terms & Conditions

Note:

Having access to this type of private data, however, comes with rules, criteria, regulatory compliances, due processes, official approvals, administrative protocols, restrictions, usage terms & conditions, & other regulations governing it.

Augustus Hall Limited may officially reject your applications or orders based on the aforesaid, & for many other reasons, or criteria that does not conform to our objectives, principles, ethics, norms, standards, generally accepted practice.

Such request for Verifications Services are only granted or carried out or conducted solely for strictly verified entities, receiver, beneficiary, or recipient with vetted aims & objectives of which the ultimate utility of such verification service is vetted & traced to fulfilling generally accepted principles, aims, & objectives as regards to Risk Assessment, Risk Valuation, Risk Control, Risk Mitigation, Risk Management, Risk Intelligence, Risk-based Decisioning, etc.; which altogether must be seen to amount to transparency, restorations & preservations of Trust, Value, Assets, Investments, Common Wealth, Security, Integrity, Ethics, Governance, Business Development, Business Continuity Management, Business Sustainability Management, Humanity, Equity, Balance, etc.

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