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Social Networking and Background Checks

By Patrick Smith on August 10, 2009
Posted in Employee Privacy, Social Networking

A post in today’s HR Daily Advisor poses the question whether an employer is better or worse off using internet social networking sites as a means of performing background checks on  prospective employees.    On one hand, the internet is an inexpensive and easy way of getting information about a person’s background and character.  Given the risks…

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