Creating Success with a Criminal Record
Achieve Your Goals
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Overcoming an employer’s reluctance to hire an ex-offender, or, as they are called now, a returning citizen, is not as difficult as is popularly believed. So many who have a criminal record have been falsely led to believe that “no one will hire someone with a felony record.“ That is just not true. My direct, one-on-one, hands-on experience in working with returning citizens is strong evidence runs contrary to that false belief that ex-offenders, ex-felons cannot be hired, that employers actively avoid hiring ex-offenders. We’ll see why later in this book.
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About the Book
This book is aimed at helping people with criminal records readjust to live beyond prison or jail. Primarily it is an in-depth guide to gaining self confidence and to obtaining a job that will provide a path to a career providing the money, satisfaction, and success into the future.
About the Author
Archie R. Whitehill has worked with ex-offenders (Returning Citizens) for about 20 years. He has taught pre-release classes in prisons and jails, and has worked as a post-release case manager, working one-on-one with men and women who have completed their sentences.
As the VASAVOR (Virginia Serious and Violent Offender Reentry) Case Manager for STEP-UP, Incorporated for 13 years I worked closely with Department of Corrections staff, particularly Probation & Parole, with Sheriff's staff, with the Community Services Board, and with many agencies and other non-profit organizations. Most importantly, I worked closely, one-on-one, with hundreds of people, men and women, who had been incarcerated for violent and serious felonies. Convictions ranged from drug distribution, to murder, to rape, to sex offenses, to child molestations. My responsibilities were to conduct classroom training and work with ex-offender clients in the field, assisting with housing, employment, re-integration into society,