Social Media Background Checks: More Risk Than Reward? (Pt. 2)

Social Media and Background Check Risks Part 2

In Part 1 this social media background checks series, we discussed the issue of accuracy when using social media resources for performing employment screenings. Now, let’s address the issues of privacy and discrimination. These two topics go hand-in-hand even more so than with accuracy. Whereas accuracy can come down to a matter of very poor [...]

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Identity Thieves Can Access Your Social Security Number Fairly Easily

Social Security Numbering System and Identity Theft

Ever wonder how your social security number gets stolen by identity thieves? Well, as it turns out, getting hold of a social security number isn’t so hard after all. Stealing someone else’s number isn’t a matter of digging through the recycling bin or hacking into a hospital or bank anymore. Apparently, everyone born since 1989 has actually had a fairly [...]

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Social Media Background Checks: More Risk Than Reward? (Pt. 1)

Social Media Background Checks and Risks Part 1

Using social media platforms (particularly Facebook) to do background checks on potential employees has more and more become an attractive option for business owners and management the past couple of years. However, it’s important to note that it’s not without tremendous risk and should be approached with the utmost caution. The truth is that the [...]

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Tips For Picking Your Own Background Check

Finding The Best Background Check Service

By now it seems that whenever you search for the best background check service, the internet is full of the same rehashed garbage about how important it is to ensure you have good service, blah, blah, blah. I have been in the game for years and have read those lines so many times I get [...]

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The Guy Who’s Always Trying to Do it Quicker

This Happens To Me All The Time in Traffic

If you’ve ever been impatient while waiting for something and are always looking for the quickest way to get it done, make sure you take a lesson from this animated gif. The poor sucker just doesn’t know when to stop and ultimately gits what he gots coming.

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Social Media Will Help You Get Hired

Effective social media use and networking can help you get hired.

I’ve written numerous articles on the stupid things people put on their social media profiles and how some of those words and pictures have come back to haunt them…and cost them their job or a job opportunity.  However, I don’t think I’ve addressed the positive side of this. There’s a nice piece on job-hunt.org that [...]

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Updates on Dating Safely Online

Know who you're dating with an online background check.

UK investigative website The Private Detective has released a report stating that online dating sites are expected to be worth over $240 million by 2014, equivalent to 150 million British pounds.  What this basically means is that a LOT of people are using online dating sites both nationwide and worldwide.   The more people involved, [...]

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