Social Recruiting Via Facebook: Are You Putting Yourself At Risk?

With big-name brands like L’Oreal, Groupon, and Pepsi using Facebook for social recruiting, it’s no wonder that small businesses are gaining the confidence to do the same -- but it’s not quite as simple as it looks. You know what these big companies have that you don’t? Legal teams.

ManWontLookAtLaptop650With big-name brands like L’Oreal, Groupon, and Pepsi using Facebook for social recruiting, it’s no wonder that small businesses are gaining the confidence to do the same — but it’s not quite as simple as it looks. You know what these big companies have that you don’t? Legal teams.

And if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get yourself in serious trouble with social media recruitment. Candidates can claim discrimination if any information gleaned through Facebook (news of a pregnancy, for example) causes you to reject their application.

So

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