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A few days ago, the president of united-states, Trump has demonstrated that the justice system must be reformed.

This reform has begun by the first step act law, it’s really the first step of this reform.

The second step concern the American companies. Indeed, American employers must consider qualified jobseekers with criminal records.

Concerning the criminal record, the article talks about non-violent convictions, for example: drug trafficking or repeated speeding.

Many recruiters and HR managers think that the criminal record doesn’t exclude an applicant for a position during the hiring in theory. But in practice, a lot of companies don’t have a HR politic about the jobseekers with a criminal record. It’s not right because each year 700 000 people leave prison. If we follow this logic, 700,000 people will not find work or a lower paid job than others.

For that reason, an American company for HR management has launched a project “Getting Talent to Work”. This project asks employers don’t exclude men or women with qualified skills during the hiring just because they have criminal records.

This initiative will permit employers evaluate an applicant with criminal records with any information about infraction for example and many tools to reduce uncertainly of the recruiter.

        The recruiter has a question list for the criminal record, and he know when ask the questions when the company needs to know this information and the infractions that will exclude the applicant.

Furthermore, companies can don’t ask about criminal records when it’s not important for the position or they can conduct an assessment of an applicant in relation to the training, the references and the work experience of the applicant.

The reasons of the exclusion of these people are: bad image of the company or less safety in the workplace if the company hire a person with a criminal record.

The recruitment process of the applicant with criminal records or without are not different. Companies can evaluate each candidate on his or her merits and not on the past of the candidate.

This article conclude that companies have difficulties to find qualified people, but they exclude jobseekers with criminal records without any valid reason.

        Even if a person has a criminal record, she has not a bad person, she committed a mistake in the past.

I think that, it’s not right that companies exclude people about mistakes committed in the past, it’s discrimination.

I would like to believe that the reform can change the opinions of the companies. But a lot of people think the same bad opinion as they do.

The person committed mistakes, he or she paid her or his mistakes by the prison, he or she must have a second chance.

We can’t judge the past of a person. Companies must not remain blocked on the criminal record of a person.

I talk about an article from CNN. This article is called “US businesses are missing out a valuable pool of talent: former convicts”. It dates on February 2019.  

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