You know that second chance hiring has entered the mainstream when Kelly Services, one of the world’s largest employment agencies, gets into the act. The company has launched the Kelly 33 second chances initiative, after partnering with Toyota Manufacturing of […]
Category Archives: Second Chance Hiring
The Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation Second Chance Corporate Cohort Program helps companies become second chance employers
Thinking about hiring formerly incarcerated employees but don’t know how to do it? Check out the Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation Second Chance Corporate Cohort Program. As the nonprofit arm of Milwaukie, Ore., Dave’s Killer Bread — owned by Flowers Foods, […]
U.S. Rubber Recycling Inc.’s Bounce Back! program offers employment to formerly incarcerated job seekers
At Jails to Jobs we’ve noticed a dramatic increase in the number of calls we get from companies that are interested in being second-chance employers. As second-chance hiring gains momentum, we plan to highlight some of the businesses that have […]
The Manufacturing Institute launches new Office Hours program to encourage second chance hiring
The Manufacturing Institute (MI) has created Office Hours to answer questions from employers about second chance hiring and, ultimately, to encourage them to institute the practice. As the national nonprofit workforce development and education partner of the National Association of […]
The Manufacturing Institute helps employers establish second chance hiring practices
In a partnership with philanthropic community Stand Together and with a $600,000 grant from the Charles Koch Institute, The Manufacturing Institute is working to expand second chance hiring among manufacturing companies. The organization is busy creating resources and will offer […]
Jeffrey Korzenik lays out a blueprint for second chance hiring in his new book
In Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community, Jeffrey Korzenik, author and chief economist of Fifth Third Commercial Bank, makes the case for hiring people who have criminal records. And he outlines strategies companies […]
Kelly Services and HSRM surveys highlight the value of workers with criminal records
Two new surveys, one by staffing firm Kelly Services and the other by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), confirm that the times – and attitudes toward workers with criminal records – are a changing. “Nearly one in three Americans […]
Fair Chance Project identifies employer solutions to unemployment among those with criminal records
The USC Sol Price Center for Innovation and LeadersUp, an L.A.-based national nonprofit dealing with youth unemployment, have published the results of their Accelerating Fair Chance Project. The project, launched in spring 2019, identified employer solutions to the challenge of […]
MOD Pizza finds strength as second chance employer
Although named by Nation’s Restaurant News as the fastest growing U.S. restaurant chain in terms of sales for two years in a row, MOD Pizza sees the growth of its employees as more important than financial success. And it prides […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation report highlights second-chance employment
When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation issues a special report on second chance hiring, you know that the issue has entered the mainstream. This summer the foundation released “America Working Forward, Hidden Workforce.” In the introduction to the 44-page report, […]