Social Media Background Check Screening | Certn
Social Media Checks
Certn’s social media 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: $42.99*
*Contact us to explore larger-scale packages and customized pricing. Pricing is subject to change. Pass-through access fees may apply.
Go beyond the profile pages with Certn.
Unlock a candidate’s entire history.
Social media can say a lot about the suitability of a potential hire. With Certn, you’ll get a comprehensive report about potential risk indicators like hate speech, bullying, and illegal behaviors.
Build your employer brand on a bedrock of trust.
Certn provides a seamless, standardized hiring experience that ensures all candidates are treated equitably.
Eliminate bias in social screening.
Done with Certn, social media checks are always accurate and fairly represent each candidate. Done wrong, they can expose your business to legal risks and hiring biases.
What you get from Certn’s Social Media Checks:
List of Active Profiles
Online aliases and social media profiles.
Identified Risk Categories
Risk categories and keywords triggered by inappropriate content.
Sentiment Tracking
Tone of language used around identified topics.
Flagged Posts
Posts that match with risk categories and keywords.
Social media 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 is a social media check?
Social media screening analyzes public posts and public activity by a candidate. AI identifies content with possible risk indicators, such as hate speech, insults, bullying, offensive language, violence, drug use, and potentially illegal behaviors. Other custom keywords can be programmed into searches. Done correctly, social media screening can give you more job-relevant insights into a candidate.
What shows up in a social media check?
A compliant social media background check shows public content from job-relevant risk categories, which might include comments on Facebook that cite a specific racial slur or photos on Instagram that are flagged for violence. It doesn’t hack into, or scrape information from, private accounts. Not every post, picture, or comment is shown.
What do I need to run a social media 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.
What is the process?
- The candidate consents to social media screening.
- AI searches public posts and content for predefined risk categories or custom keywords.
- Relevant content is flagged in a report – not every post, picture, or comment is shown.
Certn’s expert analysts review all findings and apply a relevancy rating to indicate whether content belongs to the candidate.
How long does it take?
After the candidate successfully submits their background check, social media checks can be returned in 1-2 business days.
Our customers love our comprehensive background checks
Certn delivers a service in minutes that takes other vendors days AND they do it for a third of the cost.
Nicole MacLean
Senior Manager, People Technology
WestJet
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
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