Career Resources
Resource Suggestions?
This list is by no means exhaustive, and if you are aware of a resource that we have not included but should, please contact us.
Job Search Resources
Websites
- Career One Stop This link opens in a new window
- Companies that Hire Ex-Offenders This link opens in a new window
- Felon Friendly States (Salary Wise) This link opens in a new window
- Jobs for Felons Hub This link opens in a new window
- Personal Business Ideas This link opens in a new window
- Reentry Works (Job List) This link opens in a new window
- Temp Agencies That Hire Felons This link opens in a new window
- 10 Tips on Getting a Job with a Felony This link opens in a new window
- 12 Big Recognized Companies That Hire Ex-Offenders This link opens in a new window
Courses/Videos
- Job Seeking with a Criminal Record This link opens in a new windowLinkedIn Learning course. (Free, doesn’t require LinkedIn account or membership) Developed and taught by CEO’s Inclusive Hiring Director, Dr. Genevieve Rimer, the course provides tangible skills on topics such as interviewing and resume building. Importantly, it also focuses on inspiring confidence in people with past convictions. Based on her own experience in the criminal legal system, Dr. Rimer shows learners that it is possible to find a great job even if they have a past conviction. Watch CEO’s Inclusive Hiring Director and course instructor, Dr. Rimer, describe the course This link opens in a new window
- How to Find Work After Incarceration: #GetHired Live This link opens in a new windowPeople with criminal histories are known to face a difficult road back into the workforce. Fortunately, there are steps they can take to help overcome the obstacles they face while looking for work.
Scholarships
- Federal Student Aid This link opens in a new window
- How to Apply for Scholarships for Convicted Felons This link opens in a new window
- 13 Business Grants & Resources for Felons This link opens in a new window
- The Prison Education Foundation This link opens in a new window
- Transcending Through Education Foundation This link opens in a new window (TTEF)
Internships
- Californians United for a Responsible Budget This link opens in a new window (CURB) Internships
- Prison Policy Initiative Internships This link opens in a new window
- Prison to Professionals This link opens in a new window - provides a host of services/supports for re-entry and formerly incarcerated individuals, including paid mini-internships.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons This link opens in a new window - Student Opportunities (Scroll down to Internships)
Student Organizations
Campus
- Office of Diversity Programs This link opens in a new windowWilliam’s & Joan Green Center for Student Success Suite: 105A
Telephone: 603.645.9653
Hours: M-Th 9:00am-7:00pm, Fri 9:00am-5:00pm
Email diversity@snhu.edu
Facebook, Twitter - @SNHUDiversity
Online
- Affinity and Leadership Groups This link opens in a new windowEngage in activities with those who share similar interests, experiences or aspirations through an affinity group.
- Clubs and Organizations This link opens in a new windowCheck out Clubs and Organizations for a complete listing of current clubs and organizations to join or to create your own!
Professional Organizations
- America Works This link opens in a new window
- Center for Employment Opportunity This link opens in a new window
- Exodus This link opens in a new window
- Fortune Society This link opens in a new window
- National Reentry Resource Center This link opens in a new window
- Next Door Project This link opens in a new window
- Providence House This link opens in a new window
- Osborne Association This link opens in a new window
- The DOE Fund This link opens in a new window
Publications
- Employment Information Handbook For Ex-Offenders This link opens in a new window
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Virtual Library) This link opens in a new window
- Goger, A., Harding, D. J., & Henderson, H. (April 2021). Prisoner reentry This link opens in a new window. Chapter 7 in A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice: A report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform, Brookings Institute.
- Blakinger, K. (December 2, 2021). Banned from jobs: People released from prison fight laws that keep punishing them: Post-conviction employment bans put many on the road back to prison This link opens in a new window, The Marshall Project. (Keri Blakinger is a formerly incarcerated journalist. Her memoir, Corrections in Ink is due out in June, 2022).
- Prison Policy Initiative. (2022, constantly updated). Recidivism and Reentry This link opens in a new window. Constantly updated, curated collection of nearly all the research about reentry and recidivism available online.
- The Journal of Higher Education in Prison This link opens in a new window published its first volume in 2021. It’s the only open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes exclusively on topics and issues affecting the field of higher education in prison.
Laws
- National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction This link opens in a new window (NICCC) – This is a database of collateral consequences which are legal and regulatory sanctions and restrictions that limit or prohibit people with criminal records from accessing employment, occupational licensing, housing, voting, education, and other opportunities.
- National Conference of State Legislatures - Felon Voting Rights This link opens in a new window
- The Sentencing Project This link opens in a new window is an advocacy group that offers information on felon disenfranchisement in the states. Its page Felony Disenfranchisement: A Primer This link opens in a new window contains a state-by-state chronology of state action on felony disenfranchisement laws since 1997.
- The One Stop Shop Community Reentry Program Act This link opens in a new window of 2020 - In an effort to reduce crime among formerly incarcerated individuals, a bipartisan group of Senate and House lawmakers introduced legislation to create new resource centers to offer new access to housing, medical care, job searches and legal services. This passed the House and was read in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on 12.9.2020. No further action has been reported as of March 9, 2022.
- H. Rept. 115-699 - Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act This link opens in a new window - 115th Congress (2017-2018) - The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 5682) to provide for programs to help reduce the risk that prisoners will recidivate upon release from prison, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.