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

A staggering 22 million Americans in the country’s labour workforce lost their jobs between January and April 2020 due to covid closures, pushing the unemployment rate up to almost 15% – the highest rate ever recorded in the 72 years since data collection began in 1948 – and a year on, the rate hasn’t changed