Step 1: Bookmark this page in your browser. Really. You’ll want to come back here to copy and paste your job search.
Step 2: Design your job search to eliminate (or greatly reduce) employers who have a prejudice against ex-offenders. How? Simple. You enter “negative” search terms into your search window on the job search engines. Eliminate the things you DON’T want to see. For example, if you don’t want to see “background checks”, you’ll enter ‘-”background check”‘
First put the exact phrase you want to eliminate in quotes. Then put a minus sign in front of it. When doing this remember to use both singular and plural forms of the phrase.
Step 3: Try one yourself right now. I happen to know for a fact that this works for the Indeed.com search engine. I have a search window below. So go ahead and copy and paste the following line into the keyword field below…
-”no felony” -”no felonies” -”background check” -”background checks”
Step 4: Pay it forward. Head up to the top of this page and share this on Facebook, Linkedin and/or Twitter. A lot of people could benefit from this one simple tip, so please pass it on!
I can’t find work because of my conviction. Is there really help for someone that missed up but has changed
After leaving Edna Mahan Corr.Fac,in Clinton,N.J. It was unusually hard for me to find a job in Trenton,N.J. which is the capital of New Jersey…Where we those ex-convicts are not wanted or can`t get work !!!! So when my boss let me work in the VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE for OUR WAR HEROS…..I said YES, maybe I can truly help these men and women. work isn`t too hard to find? But, when 7you do file ur applications don`t just drop it off,make sure you call that job,return several calls weekly to secure the job ur after..don`t just say I put in my applications! maybe they`ll call me?{maybe not}Cause you didn`t try to get the job,putting in an application or two isn`t enough(5days/everyday to FOLLOW-UP`S)Is what should be done.repeat to yourself this“HELP ME, TO HELP MYSELF??? It`s all about YOU,and only YOU.) RELEASED; AUG.25,1997-From BATES HALFWAY HOUSE, in NEW BRUNSWICK,N.J
Hang in there John. The 2013 Jobs Directory is coming. It will be full of Felony Friendly employers
I have been out of prison since 2010 and yet to find a REAL job. All I can seem to get are temp. service jobs paying $7.25 an hour how can you live on that, pay rent, utilities, car insurance, etc. YOU CAN’T!!! Why is it that society can’t get over it, THE PAST IS THE PAST. Give us a chance to PROVE we aren’t evil people we just made a mistake and have paid for it.
Funny how they call it “Paying your debt to Society” yet the debt never seems to be fully repaid
Iv`e been home since AUG.25,1997-from the BATES HALFWAY HOUSE in NEW BRUNSWICK,N.J. it took me nearly 16 yrs to get work after my working for ANGEL PERRUZ-(director of New Jersey`s Halfway houses)throughout New Jersey…gave me ,my first job! CITY HALL- Trenton,N.J.(WILL NOT HIRE EX-CONS)and( “THE MAYOR IS A MASTER CRIMINAL”)(“NOT-CONVICTED YET?????”) SOCIETY NEEDS TO WAKE THE HELL-UP WE HAVE MADE OUR MISTAKES,DID OUR TIME,NOW IT`S TIME TO GET OUR LIVES BACK TO THE BASIC LIFE STYLE with some HARD WORK from an HONEST WORK and a GOOD JOB/JOBS!!JESUS WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN,JUST CALL ON GOD!!!!!!!!GOD HELP ME!!!
Thanks so much for this site and what the future holds for all ex-felons.I myself am a 8 time convicted felon. Since my release in 2001 I have gotten CDL license and keep digging and got hazmat, tanker, double&triples endorsements. No it wasn’t easy alot reseach and long hours, but finally achieved my goal. Yes I still today run in to blocks and co.that want hire convict felons. Thank you and keep up good work.
I would just like to say that what you are doing to help us, convicted felons, is a blessing and God will definitely bless you for that. I was released 4 months ago and have not been able to find suitable work. As Ray said above, just the usual temp. position getting $8-$9/hr. How can anyone live off of that amount working 20 hours a week. Again thank you so much and God bless.
Keep the Faith Cari
I was released from prison in March 2010 for a 3rd degree crime of theft by person. I have since graduated from college with an A.A.S. degree in Business Mangagement. I want to work very bad, and get discouraged from not recieving anything. I haven’t worked since 2008. I have changed since my incarceration, and just want a chance. I’m kind of bummed out.
Oh by the way, I finished parole in January of 2012.
I am an ex felon, and I want to start college. But,I don’t know in what area I would be able to study. I do not want to get a degree that I can’t use. Help, are there any suggestions.