{"id":1106,"date":"2007-08-01T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/should-online-background-checks-be-used\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T19:05:13","slug":"should-online-background-checks-be-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/should-online-background-checks-be-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Online Background Checks Be Used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/200707\/social.html?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Job Applicants Fear Impact of Online Behavior<\/a> offers this (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Job Hunting in the Digital Age, a poll of about 600 current employees conducted by Harris Interactive for Adecco USA, found that <strong>66 percent of workers in Generation Y<\/strong> (ages 18 to 29) are oblivious to the online background checks employers do to research&nbsp;potential employees. In comparison, only 40 percent of baby boomers (ages 43 to 61) are unaware of such searches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How can this be?&nbsp; Gen Y is oblivious to online background checks?&nbsp; Later in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Therefore, more baby boomers make the effort to keep up with the latest hiring trends, as opposed to those in Generation Y just entering the workforce, according to Kenny.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, but I think we are actually observing a sea change in the work force.&nbsp; Gen Y is composed of young people who take electronic networking to a new level.&nbsp; Whether it be myspace.com or text messaging, they are focused on connecting with others on a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Y&#8217;s approach is a bit disarming to us Xer&#8217;s and Boomers.&nbsp; I think Gen Y actually values their online information and won&#8217;t remove it from the public.&nbsp; They want to share that information with their friends to the point they value their network over a new career opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>So the question becomes What do you do with this information?&nbsp; Should it be left out of a hiring decision&nbsp;since it is personal?&nbsp; Or should it be part of the background verification in regards to an offer?<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t come to my own conclusion yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com&#8217;s Job Applicants Fear Impact of Online Behavior offers this (my emphasis): Job Hunting in the Digital Age, a poll of about 600 current employees conducted by Harris Interactive for Adecco USA, found that 66 percent of workers in Generation Y (ages 18 to 29) are oblivious to the online background checks employers do to research&nbsp;potential employees. In comparison, only 40 percent of baby boomers (ages 43 to 61) are unaware of such searches. How can this be?&nbsp; Gen Y is oblivious to online background checks?&nbsp; Later in the article: Therefore, more baby boomers make the effort to keep up with the latest hiring trends, as opposed to those in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/should-online-background-checks-be-used\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,2,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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