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Employers Can Screen Applicants Via Social Network Sites

Written by KEYT Assignment Desk

Story Created: Sep 28, 2010 at 4:12 PM PDT

Story Updated: Sep 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM PDT

A company based out of Santa Barbara is helping employers screen job candidates through their social networks profiles on sites such as, Facebook and Twitter.

The brains behind Social Intelligence Corp. say "Googling" candidates can be a legal minefield for businesses. So they set up a company to help monitor and search for negative and positive information about employees and job applicants.

Negative findings are usually a sign of poor judgment.

Social Intelligence creators say their company can a also protect a candidate from discrimination.

Detectives say in this era of "big brother" it's important to realize that what you put online is not really private.
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