# Social Background Media Checks

Certn’s social media background checks quickly uncover insights about a candidate’s online presence and values. Make informed hiring decisions with the power of personal insight.

## Turnaround Time
1-2 Days

## Recommended For
Employers

## Cost
$66.99*  
* Contact us to learn about competitive rates and tailored pricing for bulk background screening.

### **A smarter way to check online behaviour**  
**Unlock a candidate’s online history**  
Certn’s social media background check uses machine learning to analyse public posts and images for specific types of risks. We can provide you with reports on hate speech, bullying, violence, harassment, and much more across Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and TikTok.

**Streamline HR operations**  
We work with your talent acquisition team to tailor searches for themes and keywords and manage the process efficiently and effectively. This allows your HR team to get on with the business of interviewing, hiring, and retaining quality personnel.

**Manage bias**  
Done with Certn, social media background checks are always accurate, compliant, and fair — we only check public content. A DIY approach can expose your business to legal risks and hiring biases.

## **Our Social Media Background Checks Include:**

### List of Active Profiles
A list of active social media profiles and online aliases

### Tailored Themes and Keywords
Searches tailored to your industry, company, and role

### Sentiment Tracking
Insight on tone of language used in relation to specific risk categories

### Flagged Content
Content that matches specific risk categories and keywords

### **Social media background checks as simple as 1, 2, 3.**  
Certn is the easiest way to check your candidates’ backgrounds. There’s no setup fees, no minimums, and no hassle.

**1. Select your relevant checks**  
Pick the products you need — and skip the ones you don’t.

**2. Candidates complete checks online**  
A secure, encrypted link begins the verification process.

**3. Your detailed verification report gets created**  
Results are consolidated and sent for your review.

### FAQs

**What’s a social media background check?**  
Social media screening analyzes public posts and public activity by a candidate. Social media screening identifies content with possible risk indicators, such as hate speech, insults, bullying, offensive language, violence, drug use, and potentially illegal behaviors.

**What shows up in a social media background check?**  
A compliant social media background check shows public content from job-relevant risk categories.

**What do I need to run a social media background check?**  
All you need to request a social media check is a person’s name and email address. Candidates will provide details of active profiles during the background check.

**How long does a social media background check take?**  
After the candidate successfully submits their background check, social media checks can be returned in 1-2 business days.

## Customers Love for our Background Checks

*Before, we needed local staff to carry out background checks for an individual. Now with Certn, we can have one person doing checks for multiple regions, and it’s all connected through one, global dashboard.*  
James Chan  
Operational Manager  
Fantuan

*We looked at 8 different providers, and we’re so happy we made the switch to Certn! They were able to integrate with our ATS to deliver faster and cheaper background checks for MYOB, with a much better candidate experience.*  
Ed Smith  
Employee Experience Manager  
MYOB

*Certn made it easy to navigate through the different sections of the screening process. I have used other screening platforms and found they can be difficult and confusing. Certn was simple and easy to use and took half the time of any other software I have ever used.*  
Chief Business Officer  
Capterra Reviewer

*Since switching to Certn we have been able to speed up our hiring process by about 3 weeks compared to our previous background check vendor. Certn has also helped be the base for us to go to a more virtual hiring process.*  
Human Resources Specialist  
G2 Reviewer

*Certn is so easy. The navigation around the platform is very user-friendly. I can run all my background checks from one platform. I love it.*  
Sam Guernsey  
People Operations Partner  
Productboard

## Certn makes background screening easy

### 01  
### The World’s Easiest Background Checks  
Certn and InterCheck Australia’s online screening processes use automation and AI to deliver industry-leading turnaround times.

### 02  
### Streamline Background Checks at Scale  
Integrate Certn’s global API with your ATS or third-party onboarding solution to eliminate bottlenecks.

### 03  
### Navigate Compliance with Ease  
Easily comply with regional and industry laws with automated compliance tools like built-in consent forms. Our experts have well over 30 years of industry experience.

### 04  
### Top-Rated Usability and Support  
Impress new hires with a mobile-friendly, digital experience. There’s in-region candidate support along the way as needed.

### Ready for the world’s easiest background checks? It’s time to get Certn.