Grand Valley: 03.11.2021 - Digital Excellence Series: Precision Recruiting and Social Media Investigations (Webinar)
As HR Professionals you owe it to yourself, your organization, and job applicants to make good hiring decisions. Traditionally the recruitment process is labour intensive, costly, and may lead to regrettable hiring decisions. Save time and money by adopting a modern proactive approach by reverse engineering the networking game! Candidates have long used networking to discover job opportunities. As the employer you can make networking work for you! Suppose you have a candidate profile but no name? As employers it is time to empower yourself by learning to reverse engineer online networking platforms. Learn 21st century recruiting techniques to find candidates that and personal characteristics you're seeking.
As HR Professionals you have the opportunity to avoid hiring an applicant that could compromise your organization's brand, leak sensitive information, speak unfavorably online, create a toxic work culture (bullying), or even put employees at personal risk of violence. A professional social media and web background investigation could be the difference between a successful or regrettable hiring decision.
Learning Outcomes
- Create search criteria to find your ideal candidate
- Advanced social media and internet search tools and techniques and investigative strategies
- Making evidence based hiring decisions of effective performance compensation tools that are currently driving results
Speaker: Matt Richardson
Matt is an expert on internet safety, sex trafficking and the prevention of exploitation and holds an Ontario Police College credential in OSINT and SOCINT internet investigations. He is a Professor at Loyalist College where he teaches topics that include; online safety, using social media as a positive force, and technology's impact on modern society.
As a speaker with the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) Matt covers topics that include; OSINT investigations on job candidates and using the internet for "precision recruiting". Matt is a member of the Rogers Communications / Ryerson University Cybersecurity Catalyst project team where he collaborates with industry experts on a variety of topics related to online safety, cyber security and more. He is often sought out as a subject matter expert by the media with TV, Radio, and print coverage in Canada and the U.S. He works in partnership with Timea's Cause to educate and prevent sex trafficking and is a featured speaker of the 1st Canadian National Summit on Child Sexual Exploitation. In 2019 he founded the "Digital Empowerment Project" (Canada) in partnership with a retired Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Investigator for the Ohio State ICAC Task Force. In 202 Matt began volunteering with the Innocent Lives Foundation (ILF) which is a U.S. based organization that helps protect children from online predators.
Agenda
1:00 pm - Welcome and Introductions
1:05 pm - Presentation and Q&A
3:00 pm - Closing Remarks
Register By
Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 9:00pm
** During registration, please consider the donation option. Donated funds collected through this event registration will be equally divided between Indspire and Black Youth Helpline, preferred charities identified by HRPA members in a recent survey.