Background Check for Social Media

When applying for a new job, most employers will have you agree to a criminal background check and/or a drug test.  Jobs involving working with children usually involve an FBI check as well as fingerprinting in addition.  Did you know many employers are also using credit checks, especially for higher positions?  They do this to see how you are with your own money and how you would be with the businesses’ money.  There is also another method being used.  It is a method that they do not need your permission for; a social media background check.  Would you pass?  If an epmployer did an internet search for you, what would they find?  Are you posting appropriate things on your Facebook or other social media sites?  Would the “internet you” be the same as the “employee you?”  Companies can now use sites like http://www.socialintel.com/home  to do internet/social media checks on you as a potential employee.  Even while you are an employee companies are doing social media background checks.  Why?  Whether you realize it or not, your image outside of work reflects on where you work.  People know you, and they know who you work for; what do they think of your work place when they see the real you off hours?  Want to know how to take steps to improve your internet image or what your internet image looks like?  Check out unsubscribe.com and reputation.com.  Both offer a free service, which I personally have already signed up for.  Reputation.com offers a paid service which I am honestly considering.