Welcome to Ask an Adviser, EBN’s weekly column in which benefit brokers and advisers answer (anonymous) queries sent in by our readers. Looking for some expert advice? Please submit questions to askanadviser@arizent.com. This week, we asked Arran Stewart, co-founder and chief visionary officer of blockchain-powered recruitment platform Job.com, to weigh in on the following: How do we help bridge the job gap for those with a criminal record?
With more than 70 million people in the U.S. alone who have some sort of criminal record, we as a society really need to ask ourselves if that’s actually a valid reason to bar these individuals from future employment, especially once they have served their sentence.
