Safer Places, Inc. Expands Social Media Monitoring Services
Middleboro, MA, November 6, 2021 — Safer Places Inc., a firm providing pre-employment screening, tenant screening, and security consulting, today announced the expansion of its social media screening and monitoring services in deference to the greater concern in the business community regarding the social media posting practices of job applicants and current employees. The expansion includes being able to monitor two new platforms—Reddit and YouTube—and being able to scan two additional risk categories—sexually explicit text and terrorism/extremism. According to a survey by CareerBuilder, 70 percent of all employers use social media to screen their candidates. Additionally, of those employers, more than 50 percent said they found something that made the employer not hire the candidate (other studies on this topic put this percentage closer to 69 percent). “Most employers review job candidates’ online profiles and postings to make sure there is no hate speech, bullying, or any other type of