What companies will hire someone with a criminal background?

As someone who makes hiring decisions, this background would be disqualifying. My fears are that you might hurt a customer (in our case a patient) or a fellow coworker. Furthermore, sexual harassment would be a major problem for me because I would worry about the liability, but even more importantly, I would be worried that you might chase off our female employees who are doing a good job. Why take those chances?

Base on this, if I were you, I would be looking for positions where you’re not interacting with customers and have limited-to-zero contact with female employees. I’m thinking industries like coal mining, logging, waste management or other industrial positions.

Head directly to Wall St. In addition, the White House is currently a hotbed of opportunities for those of proven criminal inclinations. Join up and thank you in advance for your service.

@emorris24 “I get plenty of interviews and have even been told quite a bit by the interviewing employer that they were extremely impressed with my qualifications and experience and that all I have to do is pass a drug test and the job is mine but then never hear from them.”

And you never will. Most job interviewers will not straight up tell you that you won’t be getting the job. Both because they’re trained to be polite, and also because they don’t want to say anything that could sound even remotely discriminatory (as we do live in a highly litigious society and you never know what someone might attempt to sue you over).

Unfortunately, however, the truth is your background makes you virtually unemployable to most companies. And the criminal convictions and charges you’ve stated here all throw up serious red flags about your personality. You’d do a potential liability that few employers would want to risk.

Frankly, the jobs @gorillapaws suggested are probably about the best you can hope for. To that end, you stated that you live in western Pennsylvania. So you’re right there in or near coal country already.

Companies who have policies to hire people with criminal backgrounds. You could ask employment agencies, parole board, and headhunters about opportunities with such companies, so that obstacle is part of the conversation from the start instead of coming up as a surprise.

Companies who have management with criminal records, and/or positive experiences with employees with criminal records, are also a possibility. Companies that intentionally work with people with a criminal record in some way as part of their business, such as counseling companies.

Also companies who just don’t do background checks, though those tend to not be great jobs.

If you don’t mention a criminal background and then the employer learns about it, it tends to come across as you withholding important information. That may even be more of a deal-breaker than the record itself.

Also, if you explain the record from the beginning, particularly to someone who will then suggest you to an employer, then it gives you the opportunity to explain why your record should not be an issue in your current position.

You could or would probably be able to get a job with one or two convictions, if you could show you are “reformed.” For example, if you had a DWI and have sought treatment and have not had a conviction in a number of years, and instead show steady employment, etc. However, with crime after crime after crime, it shows a lack of insight or a lack of being able to change. Therefore, a huge liability to a company.

Slaughterhouses are always hiring and will hire anyone.

Congress, if you can run a successful campaign.

Sexual harassment, and you can be the President!

That’s the thing that sucks I didn’t even do what I was accused of for the convictions but the other I was hard on drugs and I fucked up but that was over 4 years ago. I’m not like that anymore. I always follow up with the employer. It doesn’t help that where I live there are virtually no entry level jobs.

Someone might be wrongfully convicted once. But wrongfully convicted multiple times? I find that hard to believe.

@Darth_Algar Not to mention the probation violations—that means that this person is behaving in an unreliable manner over some period of time, and not just 1 mistake one time. At least that’s how it comes across to me.

If someone had 10+ years of solid work history without any additional criminal issues, I’d be more inclined to give them a shot (but it would still feel like I was taking a big risk, and if something bad were to come from it, my boss is going to say to me: “why the fuck did you hire that guy?”).

One of the biggest problems with former drug abusers, is that they are never really “cured.” A relapse, of some sort, is almost inevitable.

You may try some subcontractor work. Like some sort of construction job. But, it would have to be one, where they don’t have high risk jobs, that would require them to look hard into insurance for a possible injury/accident.

You’ve dug yourself quite a hole…

I would recommend contacting a treatment facility. They work with people who have criminal backgrounds, a lot. They might be able to make some better suggestions. But, as mentioned above, this is a wide variety of crimes, any one of which, would disqualify you from most jobs.

Entrepreneurial ambition, may be nearly impossible. You almost would have to start your own business. That would mean, you were the boss, and in control of hiring. Maybe start with a hot dog stand, or some other small operation. Next. You have to stay out of trouble, for…like forever…

If you could start a band, rap, or maybe some type of entertainment thing, that would get you gigs, that’s potentially another option. Most venues don’t check on the background of whom they hire for the night’s entertainment…

Maybe online poker, or a blog that would eventually draw money? ....

Self employment, of some kind, is the only thing I can think of… Realistically…

Darth_algur I was wrongfully convicted 1 time and wrongfully violated without being given a chance to defend myself and that was because of my good for nothing lawyer. I’m not the normal case they illegally made the terms of my CIP and my county team lied on the stands saying that I couldn’t have taken my meds because I was up at 5am anyone that works in the mh field knows how ridiculous that is

Unfortunately, it’s what’s on paper that counts. Not the truth.

Good luck though.

Unfortunately I know that

If only we could go back in time, and make different decisions, a lot of us, would probably change a few things….