Morris - Recruiting and Hiring Liabilities: Protecting Your Organization from the Harmful Effects of Web 2.0
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This document discusses various web 2.0 trends and their impact on recruiting and hiring, including social networking sites, diploma mills, and screen scraping. It provides examples of how these trends can harm organizations by exposing misleading or private information about candidates. The document also offers recommendations for protecting organizations, such as creating social media policies, training employees, and utilizing background check services that verify education credentials and employment history.
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Morris - Recruiting and Hiring Liabilities: Protecting Your Organization from the Harmful Effects of Web 2.0
- 1. Recruiting and Hiring Liabilities: Protecting Your Organization from the Harmful Effects of Web 2.0
- 3. Jason B. Morris •President & Chief Operating Officer EmployeeScreenIQ •Past Chairman – National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS)
- 5. Current Web 2.0 Trends •Social Networking Sites •Google •Diploma Mills •Employment Mills •Screen Scraping •Instant Screening
- 6. The Most Powerful Symbol on the Web
- 7. Social Networking Sites •Why recruiters use them •Facebook / LinkedIn Most Common in HR •How they can harm you •Stacey the Drunken Pirate •Wikipedia Example •Philadelphia Eagles
- 10. Social Networking Sites - Continued •Legal Liabilities - Recruiting •EEOC •Griggs Vs. Duke Power (1971) •OFCCP •Order 11246 •Legal Liabilities – Background Screening •FCRA •State and Local Laws •Privacy
- 11. Social Networking Sites - Continued •How to protect your company •Create a company policy •Training •Educating applicants
- 12. Diploma Mills •History of Diploma Mills •Examples of Diploma Mills •Personal Example •Financial Risk •How it can harm your company •How to protect your company
- 18. 3 Layers In Checking Education • Accreditation status – is the institution legally allowed to award degrees • Verification – has the institution awarded the degree to the candidate • Evaluation – the equivalency of an overseas degree to the US education system
- 19. States Lists of Unaccredited Schools – Michigan: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Non- accreditedSchools_78090_7.pdf – Oregon: http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx – Hawaii: http://hawaii.gov/dcca/ocp/udgi/civil-enforcement- lawsuits/atct_topic_view?b_start:int=60&-C= – Maine: http://www.maine.gov/education/highered/Non-Accredited/a- am.htm – Texas: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectid=6941C34E-DF3E- 4B42-288239D3FC3ACD29 • If the school does not appear in any of the above databases or lists, the school itself may have changed names since the degree was issued and further research on the schools in that city and state may be warranted before making a determination. Also, some schools on these lists are legitimate educational institutions that are simply not accredited.
- 20. Accredibase TM • Global database of unaccredited institutions and unrecognised accreditors • Build from publicly available black lists, information from law enforcement and education agencies and independent research • Designed for screening agencies to use in their education verification processes • Doesn’t just list names – – Locations and contact details (identifiers) – Aliases and associate mills – People and organisations involved in running them – Sources – black lists, government white lists checked – Sample certificates, transcripts and verification letters – Legal documents (eg. court records) – Website screenshots – Media references
- 21. White Lists in the USA – CHEA http://www.chea.org/search/ – US Department of Education http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ – National Student Clearinghouse works only with USDE accredited institutions
- 22. Worldwide White Lists • AACRAO EDGE – A web-based resource for the evaluation of foreign educational credentials. – The database currently includes 231 country profiles, and is being expanded regularly and updated as educational systems change. – Lists accredited schools, other public education, institutions, private universities, polytechnics, etc.
- 24. US employers…
- 25. Employment Mills •History of Employment Mills •Examples •Financial Risk •How it can hurt your company •How to protect your company
- 26. Employment Mills Why Choose CareerExcuse.com? •You Choose Your Career History! •You Pick Your Start and End Date! •You Choose your Salary! •We Provide a Real Company Just for You! •We Provide a Real Address For That Company! •We Provide a Real Website For That Company! •We Provide a Real "800" Phone Number! •We Will Have our Operators Standing By! •We Will E-mail you Every Time Someone Calls!
- 27. Screen Scraping •What is screen scraping •Where is it available? •Good sites •Bad sites •Examples of how you can miss records
- 28. Using the Web as your Screening Tool •Google / Wikipedia / Blogs •Examples •Pro’s •Con’s
- 29. Resources • EmployeeScreen University – http://university.employeescreen.com • EmployeeScreenIQ Blog – www.blog.employeescreen.com • The Verifier, Quarterly Newsletter – www.theverifier.employeescreen.com
- 30. White Papers Email Me: jmorris@employeescreen.com
- 31. Questions and Answers