Can you work as a contractor? Generally, you shouldn't have to provide a background check if you're just contracting your services.
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Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#32Why 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
It's $124,800 assuming zero downtime and fully booked weeks all year, with no PTO. Don't compare 1099 hourly to a W2 with benefits unless you've made a very careful comparison of total comp.
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#33I imagine the Koch Brothers follow through on their commitment to "ban the box" ( http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/koch-brothers-donors-ban-box-... ) and not ask about felony convictions in job applications. There are other companies operated by executive teams from across the political spectrum that probably do the same -- maybe you could be hired by one of these companies (?) . Software systems at times touch sensiti…
"Banning the box" isn't going to do anything if background checks are still legally allowed to find out the same information (felonies, convictions) anyway.
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#34> 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…
There's no good way and/or time to ask the question "Do you guys do background checks that would include my sex offenses?"
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#36It 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.
I disagree, OP should do everything in his power to disconnect the felony with his online persona.
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#37It 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.
I agree that we treat felons extremely poorly.
But as a point of order, I don't think sexual assaults are (or should be) considered as non-violent.
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#38I imagine the Koch Brothers follow through on their commitment to "ban the box" ( http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/koch-brothers-donors-ban-box-... ) and not ask about felony convictions in job applications. There are other companies operated by executive teams from across the political spectrum that probably do the same -- maybe you could be hired by one of these companies (?) . Software systems at times touch sensiti…
"Banning the box" isn't going to do anything if background checks are still legally allowed to find out the same information (felonies, convictions) anyway.
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#39I would hire the guy if I needed something. I don't see why it matters if the guy used to be a felon previously. Is he going to be violent over some software specs? I very much doubt it.
I wonder if one issue could be the company's fear that the public/clients/etc might latch onto a very narrow context of this gentleman's history like: "x employs sex offenders." It's not fair but when you have other candidates that don't have this stigma why would they even try?
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#40Does anyone know if it would make a difference if he started a company (ABC Consultants) and then contracted out himself through his company? Seems like that might get around the background check issue.