Apprenticeships
- San Francisco foundation helps ex-offenders gain apprenticeships
- Study shows how business apprenticeship programs can benefit companies and increase job opportunities
- Why ex-offenders should consider entering an apprenticeship program
- ApprenticeshipUSA grants to increase apprenticeship programs
- New guide helps manufacturers create apprenticeship programs
- Pre-apprenticeship programs provide career path entry
- Pre-apprenticeship programs offer opportunities to ex-offenders
Awards and Recognition
- Drevno receives Jefferson Award for his work with Jails to Jobs tattoo removal program
- Citizens Awards to recognize successful ex-offenders
Ban the Box
- ESR offers Ban the Box resources that can help employers meet the challenge of compliance
- Philanthropic leaders challenge foundations to ban the box
- Target Corp. bans the box on employment applications
- Ban the box gains victory at Oakland Army Base redevelopment project
- Efforts to “ban the box” continue
Career Advice
- U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Women’s Bureau offers web portal for women seeking higher paying work
- Mustards Grill Executive Chef Chef Dale Ray on how to succeed
Conferences
- Homeboy Global Network Gathering brings together agents of change from around the world
- Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation’s Second Chance Summit tackles ex-offender employment issues
- Global Homeboy Network Gathering scheduled for August
Coronavirus
Criminal Records
Education
- Eric Gentry helps community college programs provide pathway to reentry
- Manpower employment agency offers new GED program to qualified workers
- Free online courses can help you improve your basic knowledge and skills
- New federal pilot project restores Pell Grants for prisoners
- Career Online High School offers education at local libraries
- Obtaining your GED
- Is a college degree necessary to get a good job?
- Back on Track LA receives Second Chance Act funding
- Project Rebound helps formerly incarcerated get college education
- Struggle to restore federal Pell Grants to inmates continues
Education for Inmates
- Indiana inmate creates job search PowerPoint presentation
- Jails to Jobs’ book in every New South Wales, Australia prison
- What makes a good prison library
- California expands college opportunities for inmates
- Jails to Jobs launches books to prison libraries program
- WiderNet Project brings online resources to correctional facilities
- Blackstone helps inmates prepare for a legal career while in prison
Employers
- MOD Pizza finds strength as second chance employer
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation report highlights second-chance employment
- 30-2-2 programs encourage companies to hire ex-offenders
- How to hire health care workers from a unique population – those with criminal records
- Root & Rebound publishes toolkit to enlighten employers on the value of hiring ex-offenders
- Uber CEO offers second chance to those with criminal records
- No. 1 way employers find new employees to hire
- Dave’s Killer Bread helps create second chance employers
- Council of State Governments helps lower employment barriers
- Council of State Governments creates Pathways to Prosperity
- Root and Rebound guides employers in hiring the formerly incarcerated
- LinkedIn group debates effectiveness of using employer hiring lists
Entrepreneurship
- How to start a cell phone repair business
- Want to start your own small business? Organizations offer free help to get you started
- SBA Small Business Learning Center provides resources for starting a small business
- Seth Sundberg used incarceration experience to create Prison Bars
- Defy Ventures expands CEO of Your New Life program
- Consider an eBay business as an alternative to a regular job
- Shoe repair business offers career opportunity for ex-offenders
- Defy Ventures program graduate launches internet business
- Stanford law student helps female ex-offenders launch businesses
- The Pentorship Program encourages entrepreneurship among inmates
- How to find the funds to be able to start a small business
- Think outside the box: Find success by starting your own business
- Texas program fosters inmate entrepreneurs
Events
Free Clothing
- Need free interview clothing? New Jails to Jobs online directory can help you find it
- Need a suit? These organizations will give you one – and more
Free offers
Hiring Incentives
Hiring Practices
- Beyond ban the box: Open Hiring creates jobs for ex-offenders and those with barriers to employment
- Getting Talent Back to Work initiative encourages companies to hire those with criminal records
Housing
Interview Tips
- How to create a turnaround talk to convince employers to hire you
- Tips on how to succeed in a video job interview
- How formerly incarcerated job seekers can create a turnaround packet that will impress potential employers
- Using proper body language in an interview can help you get the job
- How to make an elevator pitch memorable
- If you have a criminal record and are looking for work, don’t ever give up
- How to negotiate the salary or wage you think you deserve
- A unique approach to handling a job interview over lunch
- How to get an interview by offering to help hiring managers solve their problems
- Five pre-interview confidence builders that may help you get the job
- How to dress for an interview and for success at work
- The importance of a handshake in a job interview
- References may be key to helping ex-offenders find a job
- Determining the best final question to wrap up an interview
- Informational interviews can prove effective in job search
Job Developers
Job Development
- Humboldt County (Calif.) works with Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation on Humboldt Second Chance Program
- Home of Chicken & Waffles’ Derreck Johnson creates recipe for success
- Helping people find jobs in the aftermath of the great recession
- How to close the referral gap
- How to deal with hidden barriers
Job Retention
- Using customer service skills to promote job retention
- Using the radar approach to help clients achieve job retention
Job Search Organizations
- The Next Step expands efforts to increase ex-offender job placement
- America Works succeeds matching ex-offenders with employers
- CEO expands its reach to help more ex-offenders find employment
- Correctional facility One-Stop helps inmates prepare for employment
Job Search Tips
- For greater success, start your job search with an interest assessment
- How to research companies when looking for a job
- Learn how to find and apply for federal jobs
- The importance of letters of recommendation in a job search and how to request them
- Realistic job advice for those in reentry
- How to get things done — and find a job
- How a job search support team can help you find work
- How to use co-coaching effectively in your job search
- Richard Bronson created job search engine 70millionjobs.com to help ex-offenders find employment
- What you post on social media can keep you from getting a job
- Cold calling your way to a job
- Why you might want to consider working for a small business
- All Star Labor & Staffing proves value of employment agency
- Don’t forget to write job interview thank you notes
- Use job shadowing technique to explore opportunities firsthand
- Richard Bolles outlines What Color is Your Parachute’s key principles
- Ten Reasons why you should search for a job in December
- Job search tactics: Getting to the hiring manager
- Clean Slate reveals secrets of how ex-felons can find jobs
- Job club can help put those in reentry on path to employment
- As a job seeker with a criminal record, you are not alone
- Holiday season can be one of the best times to search for a job
- Jobs for felons expert’s four-step process improves interview results
- Using prison experience to sell yourself in employment interviews
- Instead of resume use JIST card to highlight strengths, downplay gaps
- Power pose can help improve your job search and interview odds
- Job seeker success stories show out-of-box thinking style required
- Protecting your privacy on Facebook
- Jerry Seinfeld’s advice works for job seekers
Job Search Tools
- Son of What Color is Your Parachute author Richard Bolles expands his father’s work with eParachute
- Step Ahead offers job search help for ex-offenders, encourages them to discover their work options
- Career OneStop video library offers insight into jobs and industries to help you decide a career path
- New Beginners Job Search Handbook offers unique tips to ex-offender job seekers
- Jails to Jobs creates a new job search training toolkit for those who want to help ex-offenders find employment
- Use My Next Move to explore a multitude of job opportunities
- Jails to Jobs book out on Amazon
- New Career One Stop site provides help for ex-offender job seekers
- New job board for ex-offenders and people who want to hire them
- Career Sonar: a new tool to tap your social network for jobs
- Make researching options first step in job search with these sites
Job Training
- Driving a garbage truck can provide good pay, benefits and steady work for ex-offenders
- CalPIA Case Planning Project created to help prepare inmates for employment
- State departments of vocational rehabilitation provide job training, education, other services
- S.F. Bay Area philanthropist Matt Mochary sends ex-offenders to truck driving school
- Hot Chicken Takeover improves lives of those in reentry
- On-the-Job training offers funds for employers to hire ex-offenders
- STEM training can lead to science, technology and engineering jobs
- CalPIA trains prisoners to enter workforce upon release
Job Training Nonprofits
- Brooklyn-based Refoundry trains ex-offenders to create home furnishings out of discarded materials
- Together We Bake cooks up recipe for reentry success
- Drive Change food truck biz trains formerly incarcerated youth
- Texas nonprofit hires ex-offenders to build houses for veterans
- San Francisco Bay Area group delivers doula training program
- Wisconsin prison timebank creates safety net, opportunities
- L.A. Kitchen cooks up program for training older ex-offenders
- NEW finds success in placing women in trade union jobs
- Building boats helps youth offenders build confidence and job skills
- The Bread Project rises to offer new opportunities to ex-offenders
- Horticulture programs help ex-offenders seek successful reentry
- Horticultural programs provide therapy and job preparation
Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree
Laws
- New California law — Assembly Bill No. 2147 — helps inmate firefighters gain employment once released
- Inability to obtain occupational licensing helps prevent ex-offenders from getting jobs
- Illinois and New Hampshire laws aid victims of human trafficking
- Reauthorization of Second Chance Act can help reduce recidivism
Legal Information
Meditation Benefits
Money Management
- Learn how to manage your money by taking a free online course offered by Goodwill
- MIT Living Wage Calculator can help determine how much money you will need for life in various U.S. cities
- Learning money management can improve chances for success
Motivation
- Free Minds Book Club opens doors for young ex-offenders
- Canine Companions program helps prisoners learn responsibility
- How to create a vision poster
Nonprofit creation
Opportunities
- Code Tenderloin founder Del Seymour helps ex-offenders learn job skills and discover how to reclaim their dignity
- The 2020 Census is hiring thousands of workers nationwide
- Looking for work? Here’s where the jobs will be
- Flipping cars can provide a little extra cash or become a viable business
- U.S. Postal Service hires job seekers with criminal records
- Call center work offers growing number of opportunities
- Oakland employer reaches out to hire ex-offenders
- Heavy equipment operator jobs provide option for ex-offenders
- Milk Not Jails promotes dairies, opens minds, helps ex-offenders
- S.F. Bay Area labor shortage offers ex-offenders opportunities
Positivity
- Developing resilience can help ex-offenders deal with the challenges they face upon leaving prison
- Using Three Good Things technique can increase happiness, decrease depression and improve job search
- World Kindness Day reminds us how to behave benevolently
- InnerCity Weightlifting offers at-risk young people new life
- Three simple tips job seekers can use to cultivate ways to be happy
- Resilience training can help improve well being, job search
- Use improv theater tactics to boost confidence and job search skills
- How to handle rejection in your job search: A unique approach
- How to develop a positive attitude that will improve your job search
- Comedy fosters confidence, helps inmates deal with stress
- Emphasizing strengths can help ex-offenders find employment
- Kindness can help you in your job search and your life
Reentry
- Kevin Poppen offers excellent job search advice from prison
- Reentry simulation educates participants on what it’s like to come out of prison
Reentry Jobs
- New York City mayor commits to offering all those leaving city jails transitional employment
- RecycleForce works to help ex-offenders enter workforce
Reentry Nonprofits
- A New Way of Life serves as model program for women in reentry
- Circle of Support program helps ensure success of those in reentry
Reentry Services
- Federal Bureau of Prisons reentry handbook provides excellent info for those leaving prison
- California’s CDCR STOP program targets those leaving prison who have a risk of reoffending
Research and Studies
- RAND Corp. research finds incentives can encourage hiring of workers with nonviolent felony convictions
- Skills gap among job seekers means those who have the skills will be the ones hired
- Recent research on how ex-felons find success in the military could have implications for private employers
- Good Jobs Project highlights jobs without a B.A.
- ACLU report lauds benefits of hiring ex-offenders
- CareerBuilder survey highlights job interview mistakes and what to watch out for
- Northwestern University study finds ex-offender job retention rates longer than those without records
- RAND Corp. study calls for greater attention to inmate education
- Survey shows companies look beyond criminal record in hiring
- St. Louis Federal Bank highlights best job search technique
- Medical study proves relaxation techniques reduce stress
- CareerBuilder surveys employers on their hiring of ex-offenders
- MDRC/DOL study tests effectiveness of employment programs
Restaurant Work
- Knife Skills film highlights previously incarcerated employees at Edwins restaurant in Cleveland
- S.F.’s Cala restaurant gives second chance to those in reentry
Skills Training
- Commercial motor coach companies offer employment opportunities for ex-offenders
- Learn how to develop soft skills – they can help you get and keep a job
- Former inmate Alicia Brown develops empowerment program to help those in reentry succeed
- Highlighting soft skills can be key to getting a job
- Maritime industry offers opportunities to ex-offenders
- Exoffenders.net creates free WordPress tutorial
- Rubicon Bakery says employees with barriers prove to be an asset
- Prison Toastmasters clubs teach skills useful for job search
- Irvine’s One Stop Toastmasters Club helps job seekers develop skills
Stumbling Blocks
Success Stories
- Antonio Reza helps pave way for formerly incarcerated who want to become lawyers
- From inmate to Leavenworth mayor: An inspiring story of a man who made a unique journey
- Life after prison: Master guitar maker decides to tell his story
- Blackstone Career Institute changed life of former inmate
- Vanderbilt students design Triple Thread Apparel to train ex-offenders
- I Have a Bean created to hire ex-offenders
- Dave’s Killer Bread is inspiration for ex-felons
Support Services
- Gatekeepers founder Bill Gaertner launches mentoring program for ex-offender job seekers
- Career Coaches take job search help to all corners of Tennessee
- Memphis Public Library bus offers unique service to job seekers
- Get help cleaning up your record for free at the Papillon Foundation
Tattoo Removal
- How to buy a used tattoo removal laser device
- California expands funding for prison tattoo removal program
- How to Create a Mobile Tattoo Removal Program That Fits Your Budget
- New documentary D’Inked takes viewers into brave new world of laser tattoo removal
- Donate your used tattoo removal laser device to Jails to Jobs
- Redemption Ink partners with Jails to Jobs to get more tattoo shops involved with tattoo removal
- Photographer Steven Burton helps ex-gang members see effects of tattoo removal and publishes book, Skin Deep
- Tattoo removal: The view from a former warden of the Supermax Federal Prison
- Group of Kentucky friends creates free tattoo-removal program for ex-offenders
- Denver area teacher creates TattooEmergency911 mobile tattoo removal business to benefit juvenile offenders
- New book outlines how to create a tattoo removal program
- Laser device company assists free and low cost tattoo removal efforts
- Tattoo artist Jeff Goyette helps others learn tattoo removal
- Travis County Jail launches pre-release tattoo removal program
- New Skin launches campaign to remove tattoos in 10 cities
- Oregon Youth Authority expands tattoo removal program
- Chicago-area tattoo removal organization creates mobile unit
- Jails to Jobs writes how-to-create-a-tattoo-removal-clinic manual
- San Pablo, Calif. program removes tattoos, instills job search skills
- Dawn Maestas removes tattoos to help people find employment
- Jails to Jobs creates directory of U.S. tattoo removal facilities
- Tattoo removal can be first step in ensuring job search success
Tattoos
- National Gang Center Newsletter focuses on gang tattoos
- New NYU survey finds adverse physical reactions to tattoos
- Kaitlyn Harger researches how visible tattoos affect recidivism
- Baltimore nonprofit teaches tattoo cover up techniques
- Is a tattoo right for you? Facing the dangers of tattooing
Temp Jobs
- How to find temp work and further your job prospects
- Temp jobs provide opportunity to get foot in door, prove abilities