Job Opportunities for Ex-Offenders.Parts 3

Thursday, 11 November 2010


Approaching Potential Employers

  • First and foremost, ex-offenders must be completely honest in approaching employers. If an employment application specifically asks for criminal history, the ex-offender must supply it. Failure to do so will automatically eliminate the ex-offender from consideration for a job, even in those instances where honest disclosure would not have been a bar to employment. If an ex-offender does successfully conceal a criminal history and is hired, he will be subject to immediate termination if the criminal history is discovered in the future.

  • Expert Insight

  • In special circumstances, ex-offenders can obtain an expungement, which erases their criminal records from the system. Expungement is not available in all jurisdictions, and the process for obtaining expungement varies from state to state. Expungement can be lengthy and involve clearing a number of hurdles, but once obtained, it allows ex-offenders to omit mentioning their criminal records on employment applications in many, but not all instances.

    Ex-offenders should always read employment applications thoroughly. Some applications only ask criminal histories within the last 5 or 10 years. In those instances, it is legal to omit any criminal history which occurred before that period. In other instances, applications allow applicants to omit less serious crimes, such as misdemeanors, or only require applicants to include criminal history directly related to the job.



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