Career mapping is the process of strategically planning your professional path by identifying potential career opportunities, the skills required, and the steps to achieve your long-term goals. For criminal justice majors, career mapping is especially important because the field offers …

Especially in today’s market, it’s not easy to find a job. For a convicted felon, it might even seem impossible; in fact, just trying to figure out how transparent to be about your felony during the hiring process might feel …

When you’re currently out of work and job hunting, you might feel like your unemployment status is a red flag for recruiters and hiring managers. Certainly, some employers are going to look at your lack of employment as a problem, …

Getting a job can be a long, difficult process. With many steps, tests, interviews, and a lot of waiting, it’s almost never a simple process. For those with a criminal record, the experience is often a lot more complicated, and …

I recently reached out to career experts to learn more about what college and university students and recent graduates who have misdemeanor, felony, and other criminal records should do when searching for a part-time, seasonal, internship, or entry-level job.

I …

I suspect that if I were to ask a bunch of people what percentage of currently enrolled students of one-, two-, and four-year colleges and universities had criminal records that they would grossly underestimate the actual number. I also suspect …

The landscape for job seekers has changed dramatically over the past six months. With many office roles now based at home, remote work has become the norm and interviews are mainly carried out via video link rather than in person. This …

Employers talk a lot about diversity and inclusion. In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to find a company that doesn't say they're diverse and inclusive. Companies make these claims on their web sites, in job descriptions, and at career fairs. But how …

Jeff Smith was once an up-and-coming star in the Missouri State Senate. He went to prison for a year for covering up an election law violation. Since his release, he’s created a new space for himself as a professor, writer, …

More and more people are charged with misdemeanors, felonies, and other crimes and more and more of them are convicted of them. As bad as that is for those people, their friends, their families, and society, it can be even …