Social Media Screening

Sarma partners with Social Intelligence, a leading social media data platform to offer our customers a social media screening solution.

As the landscape of social media increases, employers are evolving their ways to account for online content in the hiring process. While changes to traditional background screening procedures are slow to come, a new approach to screening is emerging: social media screening. A holistic screening approach utilizes a combination of traditional criminal searches as well as social media screening as a means of creating a fuller picture of a candidate, with the goal being a cleaner hiring process that attracts better matches and weeds out problematic hires.

Social Media Screening Compliance 101

FCRA Consent, Identity resolution, and dispute resolutions process.

EEOC and STATE PRIVACY LAWS Unbiased third party with redacted candidate protected class information.

BUSINESS RELATED BEHAVIORS Consistency + policy + documentation = actionable.

Why online background screening?

It started ONLINE and ended up in the WORKPLACE or it started in the WORKPLACE and ended up ONLINE

Stats on Social Media Use in COVID-19

April Peak: 233,800,000 active users in the US (71% of population)
Increased by 2.6% = 6,000,000 more
Facebook experienced decreasing active users the previous four months before March with an average month-to-month decrease rate of -2.2%

May peak 130,600,000 active users in the US (40% of population)
Increased by 13.5% = 10,800,000 more
In the months leading up to February, the number of active Instagram users in the US was fixed, with no significant increase or decrease.