Social Media Checks

Reduce risk and hire more confidently

Social media is an essential part of everyday life for billions worldwide. Tech-enabled social media screening can provide employers with deeper insights into potentially risky online conduct and provide greater search consistency so you can hire more confidently.

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Promote More Objective Hiring Practices

With more than 5.2 billion people^* worldwide on social media, it’s become a norm for hiring managers to rely on search engines to take a closer look at their candidates. However, this practice can increase the potential for hiring bias and discrimination based on protected characteristics revealed on social media.

According to a recent survey:

Nearly 75% of employers use search engines to research job candidates.
85% of employers have found social or online content that caused them not to hire candidates.
68% of employers admit to using social media to find answers to illegal interview questions, increasing company risk.
55% of employers check social media to see if a candidate is a good fit, introducing the possibility of bias.

^*How Many People Use Social Media (2025 Statistics)

Achieve Your Hiring Goals with Social Media Checks

With widespread use of social media, it's not surprising hiring managers use online content to help provide deeper insights.

By including tech-enabled social media screening in your program, you can reduce hiring manager exposure to protected class information while providing more consistent criteria for candidate evaluation. This helps you to more easily achieve your hiring goals and foster a foundation of trust and safety for your entire organization.

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Social Media Screening Helps You Hire Smarter

Avoid Blind Spots

Sterling leverages advanced technology to examine publicly available online content for potential misconduct while avoiding protected class details.

Scale Globally

Our social media screening can be used across hundreds of languages to help you more easily achieve your hiring goals and foster a foundation of trust and safety for your entire organization.

Promote Compliance

Sterling's compliance experts monitor new regulations locally and across the globe to help you keep your program up-to-date so you can hire anywhere with confidence.

Scalable Social Media Options

Sterling’s social media screening helps you hire quality employees who align better with your company values.

Our social media checks allow you to:

Analyze up to seven years of history of a candidate or employee’s posts, likes, comments, reposts, memes, and images on common social media sources.
Search for content related to the candidate or employee in news and webpage online sources.
Review reports flagging relevant content with high confidence levels from pre-identified behavioral categories.
Choose from options to best support your business needs.

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Social Media Checks Simplify Hiring

Our social media search layers innovative advanced automation together with human analysis to help you streamline your hiring process.

Step 1: Search

Tech-enabled automations review publicly available social media posts and online content to help reveal potentially risky conduct associated with your candidate or employee.

Step 2: Match

Discovered content is authenticated via advanced automation and human analysis to help confirm that the online source relates to your candidate or employee.

Step 3: Deliver

Returned to the Client Hub in just 1 – 2 days^*, our streamlined social media reports contain flagged relevant content that may present a workplace concern for your review and consideration.

*Sterling Corporate Stat, 2025

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