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Proceed With Caution When Assessing Someone Using Social Media

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May 22, 2019
This article is part of a series called Podcasts.

There are many different new tools that allow an employer to try to measure someone’s personality using a job candidate’s social media accounts.

Cool stuff. But how accurate is it? And does it correlate to job performance?

I explore that in the podcast below with Shawn Bergman, a professor at Appalachian State University.

You’ll get a sense of what some of the challenges are (spoiler alert: people who post more often show different results than less-frequent posters) and whether there’s a future for social-media screening.

This article is part of a series called Podcasts.
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