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Social Media Searches
An online search may reveal more about a person’s true character.
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What is Social Media Screening?
Pre-employment social media screenings are background checks that look at a job applicant’s profile and activities on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to identify red flags that might go unnoticed in a typical background check and ensure that candidates are a good fit.
Our Social Media Partnership
Sterling has partnered with Fama to help companies protect their brands by screening potential and current employees using publicly available online information. Our social media partnership reduces risk with a solution that enhances ethical decision-making and compliance by proactively identifying behaviors such as bigotry, sexism, and violence, and recognize practices that align with a company’s culture and values.

Transforming Social Media Screening
Reduce Bias
Sterling leverages artificial intelligence, language processing, and image recognition to screen publicly available content for risky behaviors that reduce bias in hiring decisions.
Robust Search
We screen behaviors on social media, as well as perform a thorough search on the publicly available web, that can easily be configured to reflect your hiring standards.
Scale Globally
Sterling leverages technology that can be deployed in nearly every country and works across hundreds of languages.
The Social Media Imperative
With more than half of the world’s population on social media, it’s become a norm in HR to rely on search engines for hiring and screening needs. According to a recent Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder survey:
7 in 10
employers use social networks to research job candidates
0%
of employers use search engines to conduct research on job candidates
0%
of employers have found social or online content that caused them not to hire candidates
0%
of employers have reprimanded or fired an employee based on content found online
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