Is your company having a hard time finding good workers? You may be overlooking a large pool of qualified candidates. There are over 70 million formerly incarcerated citizens in America who are often overlooked or excluded from the hiring process. By adopting fair chance hiring practices and expanding your pool of applicants to those who have experienced incarceration, your company will be able to tap into an expansive hiring pool of eager, diverse, and talented individuals. Additionally, leading universities have shown that reentry workers typically have a higher retention rate than other employees, which decreases company costs related to hiring and training employees.¹ 

Join the SOMAH Workforce Development team on November 17 for a Fair Chance Hiring workshop for solar industry employers that will provide information, resources, and strategies to help your company obtain the competitive advantage and the business benefits that come from using fair chance hiring practices. It will also provide space for job training organizations to highlight success stories of their justice-impacted trainees and graduates working in the solar industry and how their training programs can meet your workforce needs.

You will hear from the following keynote speakers and job training organizations:

Introduction:

• Daryl Lambert - Rising Sun Center for Opportunity

Keynote speakers:

• Shelley Winner  - Microsoft (check out her TEDx talk on fair chance hiring!)
• Kenneth Wells - O&M Solar Services 

Presentation on fair chance hiring practices and strategies:

• Veena Gursahani - Root & Rebound

Panel discussion with job training organizations preparing re-entry individuals for solar careers:

• Marlin Jeffreys - Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
• Ben Rishwain - Homeboy Industries
• Janie Hodge - Paving the Way Foundation
• Dr. Mitchell Smith - Young Community Developers

REGISTER HERE

_{¹ https://checkr.com/blog/an-introduction-to-fair-chance-hiring}

Audience: Contractors
Event Type: Webinar