Using online platforms for social media screening prospective employees is involving risks that could spell corporate suicide. However using social media to recruit candidates is still the channel of choice for employers. Social media platforms replaced classified ads in newspapers years ago. We can say they were partially responsible for the demise of small town

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’. This is a story that any human resources manager will be eventually familiar with from personal experience. That bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes A hungry fox passed