In just a few hours, a felony can change your life completely. But after you serve your time, building a career is crucial to staying free. This is exactly why we built Top Applicant: to be completely free, accessible, and effective for everyone. Our team of hiring experts sat down with Journey to a New Life in Kansas City to build our guide to finding felony-friendly jobs. Let’s get started on your journey to starting over.
How did we get here?
This is a typical icebreaker question in any interview. When our hiring managers ask that question, we get to understand every applicant on a deeper level. If you get that question, it’s best to come clean when discussing your felony charge and time served.
Truth to Power
When we discussed the importance of honesty with Journey to a New Life, they had a lot to say. To stay free, you need to stay truthful and forthcoming. Many fair chance employers won’t even bother to ask unless your references raise an eyebrow. To build your resume effectively, we optimized our resume builder to give you everything you need to tell your whole story.
Why We’re Not Going Back
There are many complexities to building a career post-incarceration that many people don’t understand. That’s why our hiring managers dove deep into the details that make finding a felony-friendly job essential to staying free. As Journey to a New Life helps men and women get back on their feet, they focus on building helpful mindsets to navigate your life and career. All of their efforts center around one crucial thing for job searchers, from the cell block to the suburbs.
Earning Those Ends
Today, you may feel like making your ends meet is harder than ever, but don’t believe everything you hear on TikTok. When the United States experiences an uptick in crime, many quickly blame this on working conditions and wages. However, crime, recidivism, and employment are all very complex issues to lump into one simple assumption.
Today, there are more resources available to formerly incarcerated people than ever before. From state-funded organizations to private nonprofits, help is out there for many people trying to figure out life after lockup. Amanda Riley shares her insight on the keys to earning an honest living.
You Got The Keys
DJ Khaled may not have words of wisdom for landing that job, but for hundreds of men and women in KC, Amanda is a go-to resource for career advice post-incarceration. Journey to a New Life is a private non-profit organization started by 3 women who saw greatness in people the world often overlooked. Currently, this organization hovers around capacity while helping people get back on their feet and stand proud. Here’s how Amanda helps them do it:
Reliable Transportation
You had to have someone pick you up on your first day out, right? Journey to a New Life and many other similar organizations focus on getting their clients on wheels to get them everywhere they need to be. Amanda recommends learning your local bus route and working with any available caseworker to build and stick to a daily schedule.
Phone and Internet Access
If you dreamed of the day you didn’t have to hear that crappy collect call voice, you’re not alone. Having reliable phone and internet access is crucial to staying connected with the world around you. To make the most of your access, we made it easy to add your work history and job preferences to build your unique profile. We also continuously improve our platform to bring more felony-friendly jobs to our users quickly without having to sift through thousands of listings.
Work Swag
Orange, blue, pink—whatever color your uniform was, it’s time to dress the part outside the walls. You’ll need clothes just as unique and professional as your profile on Top Applicant. That’s why Journey to a New Life and many other non-profit organizations like it provide a community closet, including everything from steel-toe boots to three-piece suits.
Keep Your Freedom
We host jobs that could use a driven, motivated job seeker just like you. To stay out for good, you’ll need a lot more than just a good job. Top Applicant makes it easy to build a great career with modern tools that put the human back in human resources. Sign up to start using our tools and staying free with your pick of felony-friendly jobs.
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