Nowadays, it’s becoming increasingly common for employers to check a candidate’s social media profiles before hiring. In a survey by CareerBuilder in 2017, 70% of employers claimed they ...

A new trend in background checks for potential employees is to have all their social media posts scrutinized, including everything they've liked, commented on and shared. Employers said they are ...

That’s not to say social media couldn’t come up in the course of a background investigation, but in cases thus far, the social media aspect has generally been surfaced by human means versus ...