Given "everyone I know agrees I'm a different person now," it is important to know when the felony was in relation to the 10 years of experience.
It happened 2 years ago.
ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
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#22Why is the annual employment rate offered to him so high but rate per hour so low? Is that the norm? What hourly rate do you get?
Isn't 65/hour like 130,000$/year? That seems in-line with the salaried positions
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#23OP, the website doesn't specify which part of the country you're looking for work. That may be a good thing to add.
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#24> Every company is enthusiastic to hire me. But at the background check phase they all retract their offer. This kinda suggests you weren't honest, or at least up-front, about your conviction. If it gets to the background check phase and they don't already know, you're doing it wrong. If an employer finds out about that from anyone but you, the answer is _definitely_ going to be no. If they find out from you directly…
For the first 4 of the past 6 months, I've tried disclosing early (first or second phone call), half-way through, or near the job offer phase. Every single time, without fail, they email back (not even a phone call) with either a generic or very brief message retracting their offer or declining to proceed with the interview process. Smaller companies will simply stop returning my calls and emails, and completely cut…
And when you told them when meeting in person? So after initial screening, but before final background check?
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#25> Every company is enthusiastic to hire me. But at the background check phase they all retract their offer. This kinda suggests you weren't honest, or at least up-front, about your conviction. If it gets to the background check phase and they don't already know, you're doing it wrong. If an employer finds out about that from anyone but you, the answer is _definitely_ going to be no. If they find out from you directly…
I beg to differ. Although I have no data or experience to suggest one way or another. I can see how you would want to first be judged on the merit of your skills and then an employer might be willing to make a judgement call in your case, after they have judged your value. As opposed to your resume being thrown out without even as much as a second thought if you are a convicted felon.
For my company, as with many, we need to know about this stuff up-front. If we make an agreement on the basis of not knowing, then we later find out, there is absolutely no way whatsoever we will _ever_ hire you.
We are a finally regulated company though, so the requirements are perhaps a bit more strict.
If you explain all of this ahead of time - much like this website does - then we can take it into account and there won't be any surprises. For a serious offence, it's probably still going to be a no. For anything fraud or white-collar related, it's going to be a no. But for less serious offences not related to our business, I think we'd be reasonably comfortable.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#26See also 70MillionJobs, a YC company for connecting jobs with employees that have criminal records. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101452
I signed up for that site a month ago and have had absolutely no success finding a job that I qualify for through it.
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#28> Every company is enthusiastic to hire me. But at the background check phase they all retract their offer. This kinda suggests you weren't honest, or at least up-front, about your conviction. If it gets to the background check phase and they don't already know, you're doing it wrong. If an employer finds out about that from anyone but you, the answer is _definitely_ going to be no. If they find out from you directly…
For the first 4 of the past 6 months, I've tried disclosing early (first or second phone call), half-way through, or near the job offer phase. Every single time, without fail, they email back (not even a phone call) with either a generic or very brief message retracting their offer or declining to proceed with the interview process. Smaller companies will simply stop returning my calls and emails, and completely cut…
If a company will decline to hire you based on finding out, then there isn't really anything you can do - they will find out one way or another.
If you're being pragmatic about it, you might as well save your time and get rejected from these kinds of companies earlier on in the process, rather than get all the way to the end before having to move on.
The end result is the same.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#29It is completely unfair for felons to be shut out of jobs because of non-violent past mistakes that are ancient history and would not re-occur.
On the other hand, we have no idea who made this page. If they want to be taken seriously and given a chance, they need to be transparent enough to at least tell us who they are, and let us make our own decision on working with them.
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#30> Every company is enthusiastic to hire me. But at the background check phase they all retract their offer. This kinda suggests you weren't honest, or at least up-front, about your conviction. If it gets to the background check phase and they don't already know, you're doing it wrong. If an employer finds out about that from anyone but you, the answer is _definitely_ going to be no. If they find out from you directly…
As much as I wish the guy all the best, this is a valid point. From an employer point of view, if I'd find out about conviction (of any kind) from the background check (and not during the hiring process), I'd feel cheated.
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