rtjedarling
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worked 12 years in a service with the goal of placing people in jobs and the biggest population served was those with criminal offenses. Places that hire those persons are restaurants, construction, jobs such as meat processing, canneries, lumber mills, recycling centers. Or experienced like heavy machine, tree trimmers with backgrounds. Know a meat processing plant that would take someone who killed more than one person, the only thing they won't do is rehire someone who is fired or leaves. Companies like Lowes, WalMarts, QVC, electrical comp, etc. if they say they're doing a background, they do the background. Most of these type places will say if someone has something, we take make a decision on the individual case, but if the conviction is within something like, usually 5-7 years, rarely will the person get offered a job. Usually when they say they hire persons with criminal history, they mean charges 5-7 years old and then a couple of DUIS or maybe simple possession. Some of these companies will not hire any theft or fraud, some no theft, fraud, and/or violent offenses.
If you get caught lying on application, you will walk. Some apps will ask have you been charged with felony in past 5 years, or maybe felony or a misdemeanor in past 5 years, and I have seen them ask have you been arrested in past 5 years, or charged with anything other than minor traffic offenses. I know that persons with any criminal history on record are limited in opportunities and it was very hard for those with recent offenses when the economy was really in the toilet.
Smaller and privately owned businesses are easier, but the larger companies have policies in place and HR does not bend easily on those policies.
If you get caught lying on application, you will walk. Some apps will ask have you been charged with felony in past 5 years, or maybe felony or a misdemeanor in past 5 years, and I have seen them ask have you been arrested in past 5 years, or charged with anything other than minor traffic offenses. I know that persons with any criminal history on record are limited in opportunities and it was very hard for those with recent offenses when the economy was really in the toilet.
Smaller and privately owned businesses are easier, but the larger companies have policies in place and HR does not bend easily on those policies.