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Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#271

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I'd add that framing the hiring decision as charity ("giving someone a second chance") could be improved. I'd go for more of a "diamond in the rough" angle. "Find talent everyone else is missing."

Fantastic suggestions for these folks!

agreed!

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#272

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So are you of the opinion that people who commit major crimes should just be unemployed for life, and no effort should be made to cater to their job search? You don't realize that's a recipe for virtually guaranteed repeat offenders?

There will always be a segment of society that were bullied as kids and get their rocks off being as cruel as possible to those they believe deserve it. People like that are not part of this conversation.

But, the comment you addressed is talking about people who commit major crimes.

That is not the same group you are referring to.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#273

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What's the problem specifically with that listing?

Its a listing that excludes candidates with felonies on a job board specifically for candidates with felonies.

I didn't see any mention of it being only for felons.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#274

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I appreciate this observation, but our prisons are predominately filled with people of color.

Really? From what I understand, the number of black inmates in prison is roughly equal to the number of white inmates (about 40%/40%). There is a large disparity in terms of the incarceration rate of people of color, but your above statement is not true.

Yeah, but "people of color" doesn't only refer to black people--the other 20% are also people of color. So 60-40, and it's true that US prisons are predominantly populated with people of color.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#276

Is anyone elses reaction "What will they think of next?" Anyone also surprised at the scope of positive and admission-comments? Anyway, best of luck!!

thank you. And yeah, the number and intelligence of the comments has been incredibly gratifying. it does my heart real good.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#277

Testing out the Job Search functionality, there seems to be some room for improvement for returning more relevant results first. Doing a quick test against a keyword search for "developer", I would much rather see all results with developer in the job title first. Instead seeing a lot of top results that are not relevant, some which I can't find a form of the word "develop" anywhere in the full job description, much…

Yeah, the job search functionality needs lots of work. Like pretty much all job boards, we engage in scraping of other sites (along with our own jobs). While we try to filter based on geography, job type and "second-chance friendly," we get results that don't conform. Like you, I see all that needs improvement, and promise to make it much better. Please make sure to check in periodically and share what we can be doing better.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#278
post #73

> along with a healthy dose of racism Er, when is racism ever healthy?

A "healthy dose" of something negative is bit of a sarcastic idiom. More generally a "healthy" dose could be described as one that is not lacking in any way.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#279
post #114

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"Leads to license suspencion. Leads to driving while license suspended." Or, like, don't drive without a license.

If you're an American, there are huge parts of the country where lacking a car is infeasible. But for the sake of argument, let's say you shutter your car. You can spend a ton of time walking to, and waiting on, public buses, time you can't use to study for a degree, or be with your kids. Maybe you rely on a friend's car, but then you miss out on last-minute shift opportunities, and your friend's transport problems b…

I'm not American, thankfully

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

#280

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I appreciate this observation, but our prisons are predominately filled with people of color.

hmmm, is this correct? It seems the real proportion is 39/40/19 among Whites/Blacks/Hispanics. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html

From The Bureau of Justice Statistics, the "Prisoners in 2015" report, table 8, page 13 [0]:

>Percent of sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, December 31, 2015

446,700 white male prisoners 501,300 black male prisoners 301,500 hispanic male prisoners 122,400 other male prisoners

Which means male adults of color (925,200) make up more than double the male white adult (446,700) state/federal prison population.

[0]https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p15.pdf

The more disturbing statistic being that 1,745/100,000 black adults are incarcerated, compared to 317/100,000 white adults.

Female incarceration rates do not follow this same trend identically according to the data, and they make up only ~7% of the total correctional population.

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