Social Media Checks
Certn’s social media checks quickly uncover insights about a candidate’s online presence and values. Make informed hiring decisions with the power of personal insight.
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Go beyond the profile pages with Certn.
Unlock a candidate’s entire history.
Social media can say a lot about the suitability of a potential hire. With Certn, you’ll get a comprehensive report about potential risk indicators like hate speech, bullying, and illegal behaviors.
Build your employer brand on a bedrock of trust.
Certn provides a seamless, standardized hiring experience that ensures all candidates are treated equitably.
Eliminate bias in social screening.
Done with Certn, social media checks are always accurate and fairly represent each candidate. Done wrong, they can expose your business to legal risks and hiring biases.
What you get from Certn’s Social Media Checks:
Social media checks as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Certn is the easiest way to check your candidates’ backgrounds. There’s no setup fees, no minimums, and no hassle.
1. Select your relevant checks
Pick the products you need — and skip the ones you don’t.
2. Candidates complete checks online
A secure, encrypted link begins the verification process.
3. Your detailed verification report gets created
Results are consolidated and sent for your review.
Get the world’s easiest social media checks with Certn.
FAQs
Social media screening analyzes public posts and public activity by a candidate. Social media screening identifies content with possible risk indicators, such as hate speech, insults, bullying, offensive language, violence, drug use, and potentially illegal behaviors. Other custom keywords can be programmed into searches. Done correctly, social media screening can give you more job-relevant insights into a candidate.
A compliant social media background check shows public content from job-relevant risk categories, which might include comments on Facebook that cite a specific racial slur or photos on Instagram that are flagged for violence. It doesn’t hack into, or scrape information from, private accounts. Not every post, picture, or comment is shown.
All you need to request a social media check is a person’s name and email address. Candidates will provide details of active profiles during the background check.
The process for the candidate is simple. Here’s how it works:
- The candidate consents to social media screening and has the option to provide their online profiles.
- The check searches public posts and content for predefined risk categories or custom keywords.
- Relevant content is flagged in a report – not every post, picture, or comment is shown.
- Findings are consolidated into a report with a relevancy rating to indicate whether content belongs to the candidate.
After the candidate successfully submits their background check, social media checks can be returned in 1-2 business days.