The latest edition of this ground-breaking guide offers seasoned advice
to ex-offenders facing numerous barriers to employment. Indeed, finding
a good job is the number one challenge facing hundreds of ex-offenders
re-entering the Free World each day. Successful re-entry is especially
difficult for those who have lost everything, including hope and
optimism. Without a decent job and support network to help meet
immediate food, housing, transportation, and health care needs -- and
often saddled with onerous financial obligations (fines, restitution,
child support payments, accumulated debts) -- many ex-offenders fall
back on old dysfunctional habits, relationships, and temptations that
lead them back behind the depressing fire walls of prisons, jails, and
detention centers. What they most need are good jobs that pay living
wages. So what should ex-offenders do in order to land a good job? Where
should they go? What strategies work best for them? The book provides
important answers to many re-entry questions. Beginning with 20
myths/realities and 22 principles for success, one of America's leading
employment and re-entry experts reveals 10 steps to job and career
success, from changing attitudes, seeking assistance, assessing skills,
and setting goals to writing resumes, networking, and interviewing for
jobs. Special chapters focus on job survival, advancement, and
conquering the digital workplace. Rich in insights and filled with
practical examples, exercises, self-tests, and resources, here's the
book that can make a big difference in the lives of ex-offenders. It
shows them how to contact employers who will want to hire them because
of their unique talents, positive attitudes, and strong
employer-centered motivations. Best of all, they learn how to find a job
they both do well and enjoy doing as they go on to living a new and
productive life centered around work, family, and community. Foreword by
Joyce Lain Kennedy.
