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Criminal Conviction & The Job Search
QUICK CHECK ANSWERS:
1.  a) careeronestop.org or CareerOneStop.
  b) Find State Resources.
  c) Job Search; Documents & Records; Legal 
Assistance; Housing; Food Assistance.
2.  a) Sealing your record.
  b) Your conviction is gone.
	 c)	 Ask	parole	officer	or	free/low	cost	legal	clinic	
in your city.
	 d)	 WikiHow.com
3.  Lose an employer's trust.
4.  Disqualify you.
5.  a) Your skills and positive traits that you bring 
to the job.
  b) Student's sentences.
6.  a)  Negative issues.
	 b)	In	the	middle	of	the	interview.
	 c)	Summary	of	your	qualifications,	skills,	and	 interest in the job.
7.  a) Your side of the story.
  b) What you have to offer employers.
  c) Student's choice of 2 sentences.
8.  Your skills and future career plans.
9.  Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program and Fed -
eral Bonding Program.
10. Wrong.
11.  Can be seen as a sign that you are lying or hid -
ing something.
12.	 Slouching,	sitting	casually,	or	fidgeting.
13.  You are a friendly person; you are someone the 
interviewer	would	want	working	at	the	com -
pany.
14.	 Only	after	the	interviewer	extends	his	or	her	 hand	first.
15.  a) Serious.
	 b)	Being	bored	or	having	low	energy.
16.	 Proper	and	fitting	time.
17.  a) Student's opinion.
  b) Reason for opinion.