Written By Employment Screening Resources (ESR) ClearStar Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Nicolas Dufour wrote an article titled “Is There a Right Way to Screen Social Media?” that was originally published in March 2019. The article is reprinted below on the website of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a service offering of ClearStar.…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn ClearStar, a leading provider of background checks, and Social Intelligence™, a leading provider of social media screening, will host a webinar on “Social Media Background Checks: Supporting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Digital Age” presented by leading Human Resources software firm Paycor on March 2, 2023. The…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn An innocent woman who was falsely arrested for a robbery in Texas in a case of “mistaken identity” when police thought a surveillance photo of a suspect with the same name looked like social media images of her has spent a week in jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Background check expert Attorney Lester Rosen, author of “The Safe Hiring Manual” and founder of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a session at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Talent Conference & Expo 2023 in Orlando, Florida, and virtually from April 16th to 19th, 2023. Rosen will…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 10, 2022, leading global background check provider ClearStar and leading social media background screening company Social Intelligence™ will host a free live webinar titled “Social Media Background Checks: Supporting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) in the Digital Age” that will examine how toxic online content…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn ClearStar, a leading Human Resources (HR) technology firm that provides background checks, and Social Intelligence™, the only social media background screening company to be designated as a consumer reporting agency (CRA) by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will host a free webinar titled “Social Media Background Checks: Supporting…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers and recruiters have discovered a treasure trove of information on potential job applicants by using social media background checks. While employers and recruiters may seek to use the information to find the right candidate, the unrestricted use of this information as part of the hiring process…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – an organization with more than 300,000 HR and business executive members located in 165 countries – will host the 2022 SHRM Employment Law & Compliance Conference (ELCC) in Washington, D.C., and live online from March 28 to 30, 2022.…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a webinar titled “Screening Applicants Using Social Networking Sites: Legal or Liability?” hosted by Lorman to alert employers about the legal risks of social media…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – America’s largest government agency – “is examining a scalable means of implementing social media screening in conjunction with background investigations” in an effort to prevent extremist behavior in military ranks, according to a training document from the Office of the…
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