ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
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Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
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#3> 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, it's probably still a no, but not definitely.
> We've ran out of unemployment
Grammatical error - may seem like a small thing, but when you're appealing to people in this way, the small things matter a lot. Change to "We've run out of unemployment".
To be honest though, I'm not sure this part of the story is helping your case - it doesn't paint a positive picture, only inspires pity. Maybe I'm wrong about that though - just what I'd be thinking about.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#4Damn. I hope someone can give this dude a second chance.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#5Why 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?
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#6OP: Put your plea at the top to get the attention of people; "Unemployed family man ran out of money". Also, regarding interviews, if you're very transparent with people they can usually find a way past what turns up in your background check.
To HN: Another felon here:
One of the hardest things is living with this label. There's such a stigma around it. My offense is much different than OP, but it still sucks.
People seem to think "one a felon, always a felon" — which, in some cases is very true, but for every repeat customer of the courts there are 10 people who commit felonies once or twice and never do it again and go on to lead otherwise normal lives.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#7See also 70MillionJobs, a YC company for connecting jobs with employees that have criminal records.
Re: ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price
#8At first, I thought this was a service for connecting felons to jobs. I always thought that'd be an awesome idea, especially if some sort of job training could be set up (jail is SUPPOSED to be for rehabilitation, right?)
Anyway, best of luck with your job search.
You seem very transparent about this, so forgive me if this is too forward - do you face difficulties being on the sex offendeder list with attending events for your children? I.e school plays or whatever.
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#9> 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.
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#10I 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 sensitive info, and it might be harder to justify hiring a formal felon to work on these (might depend on the nature of the crime), so YMMV.
Good luck to you, I hope you continue to sort out your issues and that you good way to support your family.