Results of the survey’s data around social media and Google background checks in the Monster/BLR Survey of Recruiting Best Practices. Have your hiring decisions been influenced by what you found online?Forty-one percent have been positively influenced to hire based on information they found online, while twenty-six percent have turned down a candidate based on what they found online. Do you visit candidates’ social media pages (e.g., Facebook pages) as part of your background checking procedures?Nineteen percent of respondents indicated that they did visit candidates’ social media pages.
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