Read the response to the instructions listed below. Do you agree with the response? Why or why not? What are your thoughts? Explain

Instructions: Please use the 5 criteria (i.e., reliable, valid, generalizable, practical, and legal) to analyze the effectiveness of using Social Media as a background check.

Response: Reliability: Based on external sources, we all know the percentage of being hired to a company is mostly depend on candidates social media; which we should agree that a social media does a define a person true character The most commonly reported social media profile candidate deal breakers that would cause a candidate to be rejected were:

• Candidate posted provocative/inappropriate photos/info 50 percent
• There was info about candidate drinking or using drugs 48 percent
• Candidate bad mouthed previous employer 33 percent
• Candidate had poor communication skills 30 percent
• Candidate made discriminatory comments related to race, gender, religion, etc. 28 percent
• Candidate lied about qualifications 24 percent

Well, according to a study by Carolina State University not all of these social media background findings can be relied upon as indicators of the candidates characters. For example, hiring managers might interpret incidents of drugs or alcohol use as showing a lack of conscientiousness or self-discipline or being irresponsible. But, the researchers found that there was no significant correlation between conscientiousness and an individuals willingness to post content on Facebook about alcohol or drug use. So, if you are eliminating candidates based on these erroneous criteria you may be eliminating conscientious candidates. (Kazim, 1).

Validity: Using social media as a background check is not valid because there is no actual way to make sure that every info post on social media is correct. As we know, almost everyone in the world who has access to social media post their opinions towards anything; therefore, considering other peoples opinion should not be consider as a validity for background check.

Generalizable: Each individual social media background process will be different. There are so many different platforms available where information will be scattered and not uniform.

Practical: It is a practical way of doing verification as information is readily available to the organization.

Legal: Organizations should make sure that the information collected is nondiscriminatory and valid, else it might result in legal lawsuits against the company.