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Analyzes Publicly Available Online Information for Problematic Behavior

Social media searches provide vital information to assist employers in making sound hiring decisions by identifying job-relevant behaviors such as bigotry, sexism, and violence.

Our automated solution searches thousands of posts, likes, shares to help your company ensure a safe workplace, avoid PR disasters, and preserve the integrity of your brand. 

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Levels of Service

Types of Searches

  • Social Media Search - When an employer orders a social media search, publicly available social media profiles will be searched. The report will provide links to all relevant social media profiles, flagged texts and images with indications of why it was flagged. 
  • News and Web Search - A comprehensive news and web search is conducted via a proprietary network of web crawlers and APIs. Results returned may include blog posts, professional reviews, local or national news articles, comment boards, etc.

Profile Options

  • Standard - The standard configuration would flag content related to the following categories: intolerance, crime, harassment, sexism, and violence. 
  • Advanced - The advanced configuration includes all of the above categories plus drug and alcohol. 

Social Media Search Benefits

Trying to conduct social-media searches manually is exceptionally challenging and fraught with potential concerns. Due to the high volume of online content that must be reviewed, employers can easily miss critical information and leave themselves vulnerable to legal issues by inadvertently viewing protected class information.

HireRight’s automated solution helps highlight behaviors that put companies at risk by providing the following benefits:

  • Reviews thousands of posts and articles in a fraction of the time it would take to conduct manually
  • Escalates relevant cases for review per employer's defined criteria
  • Built to confirm that the social media record belongs to the applicant, using both technology and human analysis
  • Focuses solely on job-relevant information and limits exposure to protected class information that would otherwise be revealed

Key Features

  • Employer identifies screening criteria to be used based on relevant risk factors deemed appropriate for their company
  • Analyzes publicly available data found on the internet quickly, cutting through thousands of results to identify only relevant behaviors
  • Automated solution reviews both content and context and has the ability to read text and images like a person
  • Utilizes both automated technology and human analysis
  • User-friendly report layout simplifies decision making
  • Platform is updated frequently with new sources, flags and language

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