I wish we heard more stories like these. It might dissuade people from getting involved in drugs in the first place.
Or maybe it ought to convince us that we shouldn't make it so hard for people with minor criminal records to get back into society?
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Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside from any legal/HR consideration, we feel that everyone deserves a second chance, so we don't discriminate based upon the nature of the crime (but believe me, this is not an easy issue to reconcile). Ultimately, it'll be between the applicant and employer to resolve this. As it relates to liability to the business, there's a federal bonding program that has existed for decades, indemnifying employers from making…
My father owns a retail business that has four stores and employs a bunch of hourly workers. After growing up around the business and working there in my teens and twenties, I feel pretty confident that the risk of a second-chance felon is probably no more than the risk of any average off-the-street hourly worker. Bad apples show up all of the time. They steal a little money or some inventory, get fired, and life goe…
Your father's experience is no exception, and you're right. Generally speaking, given the opportunity, these folks stay out of trouble.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#83Hi Richard,
This is a great idea with a nice social cause. Also,from a business perspective this is a good niche and large scale. Aside the mission and the targeted niche, how do you expect/plan to diferentiate in your product offering?
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#84I ran a search and a few banking jobs came up, one of which mentioned going through a fingerprint background check. I find it hard to believe the US Bank in SF would take me seriously for a teller opening if I had any sort of hangups in my background. I guess this is more of a feature request but... It would be great if you could filter out job postings that were likely just scraped or aggregated from other places! N…
Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, our search algorithm needs lots of work. It'll get there.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#85"Richard Bronson" is an awesome name for this. It has real gravitas.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#86I very much like what you're doing for those of us who've made wrong choices in the past. However, I am a little bit concerned what drives a company to go to a site -especially made for those people- looking for future employees.
The hardest workers are people who are (re)building their lives from nothing... Largely immigrants and ex-cons.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right you are. The US has 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's incarcerated population. Per capita, more than China, Iran, N Korea.
In fact they're not right. The parent is confusing criminal record with incarceration duration. The UK has nearly just as high of a criminal record ratio among adult men for example. The difference is the US assigns far longer incarceration times for the same crime vs the UK. Further, Europe as a whole has a higher crime rate than the US does. [1] 70 million jobs has plenty of room for international expansion accordi…
Great data. Thank you for sharing. The US is also the only country that employs solitary confinement for juvenile inmates.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#88I wish we heard more stories like these. It might dissuade people from getting involved in drugs in the first place.
No, it probably will not dissuade people all that effectively. That logic is part of the problem.
Well if nothing can be done to dissuade people from criminality we might as well not bother having a criminal justice system and put up with it.
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#89Why buy a domain name for a number that will fluctuate over time?
My greatest pleasure will be the day I have to buy 60millionjobs.com, 50mill....
Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
#90I would imagine the difficult aspect of this two-sided market would be employers. Not to be obtuse, but what incentive would an employer have to hire someone with criminal records?
I commented this somewhere else, but I figured I would drop this link here for you too, https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/ . You can get a pretty decent tax break if you hire a felon.
very true