Protecting your brand, culture, and employees is central to an organization’s success. Validity has consolidated a variety of data points to help explain the current new employee risk outlook.
Social Media Screening for Employment
Helping You Find The Right Fit
Workplace Culture Matters
A person’s social media can teach you so much about them—for better or worse. But even if social media screening for employment is important, scanning an applicant’s social media accounts manually can be time-consuming and tedious. Why do this yourself when a trusted, reputable company can do it for you? Validity Screening Solutions can provide your organization with consistent, unbiased, and comprehensive reports on your candidates quickly and efficiently. Additionally, there are social media screening laws that organizations must abide by when conducting social media checks. Keeping track of these laws can be difficult in an ever-changing legal environment. Why do this yourself when a trusted, reputable company can do it for you? Validity Screening Solutions can provide your organization with legally compliant, consistent, unbiased, and comprehensive reports on your candidate’s quickly and efficiently.
Social Media Screening With Validity
Working with Validity ensures that organizations have a social media screening program tailored to their specific organizational mission and values.
Using a combination of machine learning and natural language processing, our software analyzes public online and social media presence for indicators of risk, culture fit, and high performance. Roughly 1 in 4 reports include company-specific criteria, which gives organizations as much information as possible to make an informed decision in their hiring or admittance process.
The Social Media Screening Process
Step 1
To start the screening process, Clients will submit a candidate’s applicable information and any desired criteria to Validity Screening Solutions.
Step 2
Once submitted, the information is sent to Validity’s screening team, where we tailor-make the algorithm to learn more about the candidate.
Step 3
By using AI, our algorithm can identify text, photos, and videos that match your pre-defined criteria. In addition to social media, we can comb through dozens of search results to highlight news, blogs, chat boards, or other content relevant to your recruitment decisions.
Step 4
Once the research is completed, candidate information is sent back to Validity’s Quality Assurance Team to analyze the results and create a report.
Step 5
We make the report available for your team to review, ask questions, and make decisions on recruitment.
Identify "Red Flags" On Applicants' Social Media
Over 70% of companies are screening social media during the hiring process, and 54% of companies have reversed a hiring decision based on social media content.
Social screening only surfaces content that is relevant to an employment decision, and in 2018 has returned over 12 million pieces of publicly available content.
14.2% of people had flags for misogyny and sexism, 10.3% of people had flags for bigotry, racism, and hate speech, and 11.7% of people had flags for violence, drugs, and crime.
Why Choose Validity?
We aren't like most companies in our industry, and that's the point. Partnering with Validity offers a number of unique benefits, including:
Compliant Reports
Your organization could be at risk of legal implications if your review process isn’t following proper guidelines. We are both EEOC and FCRA-compliant, keeping you and your candidates protected.
Quick Turnaround
AI analyzes posts and images across 12 distinct risk classifications. Even better? We can process thousands of posts from a single subject in seconds.
Accurate Profiles
Sometimes it’s hard to find the “right” person on social media. Take the guesswork out. We have processes in place to ensure the profiles being reviewed belong to your candidate.
Service Features
Multimedia Analysis
Validity's algorithm can identify text, photos, and videos that match your pre-defined criteria. Our solution is also sophisticated enough to highlight nuanced subjects such as bigotry, cyberbullying, and even attitudes toward work.
Fully Customizable
Our screening solution can be customized to reflect your recruitment standards, code of conduct, and institution policies.
News and Web
In addition to screening social media, we can comb through dozens of pages of Google and other search results to highlight any news, blogs, chat boards, or other digital content that might be relevant to your recruitment decisions.
More Data, Faster
We will increase the scope of data that you integrate into your screening process. The goal is to get your team more of the relevant information they need on candidates to help fill in the gaps of information that a standard screening process might not cover.
Partner With Validity Screening Solutions
Get employee screening services customized specifically to your organization’s needs quicker, more accurately, and more efficiently.
Social Media Screening Fact Sheet
In case you or your boss still need convincing, our fact sheet contains even more info on the benefits of partnering with Validity.
Frequently Asked Questions
We’ll review 7 years of public posts from major social media platforms.
Validity helps institutions mitigate risk in who they sign, and acts as a digital safety net to provide peace of mind on every signing—while ensuring rigid compliance.