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…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Dawn Standerwick, Vice President of Strategic Growth at Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a webinar entitled “Social Media and Background Screening: If It’s on the Internet, Isn’t it Fair Game?” for the Alliance of Channel Women at 4:00 PM Eastern Time (1:00 PM Pacific Time) on…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar titled “The Legal Use of Social Media, Credit Reports, Driving Records, and International Screening in Hiring” produced by Aurora Training Advantage on Tuesday, December…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar with Lorman Education Services entitled “Screening Applicants Using Social Networking Sites: Legal or Liability?” from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers are ramping up their use of social media screening in 2019 but they must ensure that these searches protect the privacy of job applicants, according to a background check expert interviewed for an article – the first in a two-part series – from the Society for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A background check expert speaking at the 2018 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Talent Conference & Exposition warned using social media to screen job applicants can lead to “a world of privacy and discrimination problems,” according to an article written by SHRM Online Manager/Editor Roy…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 26, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the primary federal privacy and data security enforcement agency – confirmed it has opened an investigation into the privacy practices of Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform with 2.2 billion monthly active users, after a data…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 1, 2018, Vermont House Bill 462 (H. 462) took effect and added a new section to the Vermont Statutes Annotated (V.S.A.) relating to social media privacy for employees that restricts the access to and use of social media accounts of employees and applicants by employers.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn “Millennials” – people aged 20 to 35 in 2016 – are expected to overtake “Baby Boomers” aged 52 to 70 in population in 2019, according to the Pew Research Center. The fact that technically savvy Millennials have overtaken Baby Boomers as the largest segment of the U.S. workforce…
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