EMPLOYMENT LAW: BACKGROUND CHECKS, REFERENCES AND VERIFYING EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY (chapter 5 of Employment Law for Human Resource Practice)

Please read the following article:

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/toolkits/pages/conductingbackgroundinvestigations.aspx(This website allows for three free articles.If you cannot access it fromthis link, you do not need to register.1) Try Googling"Toolkit: Conducting background investigations"This should pull up the article from SHRM and you should be able to access it or2) You may do independent research and find a comprehensive article on conducting background investigations, in order to answer the questions below.)

In your reading you can see how there are a variety of privacy protections in place, such as the Privacy Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, etc. that affect the verification process. Answer the following questions:

1. Explain some of the types of pre-employment background checks employers may use. - your own words
2. What are the limitations an employer might face in implementing pre-employment screening and verification? - your own words.
3. The article above states that as of 2018, "73 percent of employers are not using social media to screen job candidates. Using information gleaned from the Internet is a controversial approach."Should companies use free social media to assess candidates?Why or why not?