How do employers find their employees digital footprint?

Question

I’ve heard they can access more than just what a simple Google search can give about a future/current employee, but I’ve never know how they do it.

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Answer 1

A “ethical hacker” would use some programs to discover emails/social accounts/relations of a target.This is called OSINT (open source intelligence) “open” because deals with public data, freely available on the internet. It’s part of a branch called Social Engineering (software and methods to help hack people, not machines)

There are also subscription services for this kind of services to speed things up or for big companies/agencies.