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Category Archives: Employers

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How to hire health care workers from a unique population – those with criminal records

Posted on August 17, 2017January 7, 2025 by Jails to Jobs

Hospitals and health care agencies and facilities are scrambling to fill a rapidly growing need for workers at every level. And there’s a population that’s eager and ready to fill those positions. That population is people with criminal records, and […]

Root & Rebound publishes toolkit to enlighten employers on the value of hiring ex-offenders

Posted on February 2, 2017October 25, 2024 by Jails to Jobs

Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit Root & Rebound has published the California Employers’ Fair Chance Hiring Toolkit. This 28-page toolkit is not just an exceptional resource for companies and organizations that are committed to – or considering – hiring those with criminal […]

No. 1 way employers find new employees to hire

Posted on September 8, 2016February 11, 2018 by Jails to Jobs

What’s the No. 1 way employers find new employees? It’s not what you might think. Forget the online job boards. Forget employment agencies or headhunters. The No. 1 way employers find new employees is through a referral from a colleague. […]

Council of State Governments helps lower employment barriers

Posted on August 5, 2015February 10, 2025 by Jails to Jobs

To get returning citizens back to work and help reduce recidivism is a monumental task, an effort that takes an entire community to tackle. Representatives from the public and private sectors ranging from corrections to corporations need to work together […]

Council of State Governments creates Pathways to Prosperity

Posted on February 27, 2015March 12, 2021 by Jails to Jobs

The attitude of employers is often the biggest obstacle to employment for those with criminal records. It’s almost like hitting the proverbial brick wall. But the Council of State Governments is out to change those entrenched attitudes. This nonprofit organization […]

Root and Rebound guides employers in hiring the formerly incarcerated

Posted on October 23, 2014August 1, 2023 by Jails to Jobs

Root and Rebound, a Berkeley, Calif., based legal advocacy nonprofit organization, has published the Guide for California Employers: Hiring People With Criminal Records. Using a question-and-answer format, this 13-page guide lays out all the basics that California employers interested in […]

LinkedIn group debates effectiveness of using employer hiring lists

Posted on December 20, 2012April 1, 2025 by Jails to Jobs

A recent lively discussion on LinkedIn’s Ex-Felon’s Employment Resource group brings up the issue of the validity of lists, in this case Ranker.com’s List of Employers Who Hire Felons. The discussion was launched when a member who works for Goodwill […]

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