For employers all across the spectrum, being able to recruit and retain hard working, qualified, and enthusiastic employees is critical. Participating in second chance hiring, and removing traditional barriers to employment for justice-impacted individuals, creates the opportunity for economic security and mobility for justice-impacted residents, but also to build safer and more prosperous communities – a win for all.

We have compiled resources below to assist you in implementing second chance hiring practices in three different categories:

• Toolkits and Guides
• Legal Info and Data
• Benefits of Second Chance Hiring

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This valuable resource from the Second Chance Hiring Alliance will answer your questions about the legal requirements, financial incentives, and protections available to you as an employer looking to expand your applicant pool through second chance hiring. Second chance hiring is the practice of hiring people with criminal records, including those who have experienced incarceration, otherwise known as “justice-impacted.”

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Learn four best practices for implementing second chance hiring in your business.

Explore extensive resources from the national Second Chance Business Coalition.

A guide, road map and resources for employers to effectively implement second chance hiring practices from the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice.

A useful toolkit for employers to adapt second chance hiring practices from the Center for Employment Opportunities.

Produced in collaboration with the National Workrights Institute, this report aims to provide employers a better understanding of the magnitude of the risk of negligent hiring liability and the circumstances in which employers have been found liable when employing a worker with a conviction history. 

The Manufacturing Institute published Second Chance Initiative Resource Guide: The Case for Second Chance Hiring. This guide is designed to give industry the tools needed to explore and implement Second Chance hiring practices.

This resource from the National Institute of Justice provides a data-driven look at the effects of “collateral consequences” that attach not only to individuals with felonies on their record and those incarcerated but also to people with misdemeanors and those who have never been incarcerated.

This article from Harvard Business Review addresses 3 common myths about hiring people with criminal records and highlights how second chance hiring can benefit the employer, employee, and the U.S. economy.

A resource from Prism Reform on the advantages, benefits, and incentives to businesses of hiring justice-impacted-job seekers.

The Society for Human Resource Management highlights the benefits of second-chance hiring, emphasizing that employing formerly incarcerated individuals enhances diversity, equity, inclusion, and retention. It also advocates for a personalized, skills-based hiring approach to optimize employee-employer fit.