The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

If your company is struggling to hire right now, a recent article from Harvard Business Review suggests you should turn your attention to an often overlooked and stigmatized talent pool: workers with criminal records.

“An expansion,” writes HBR, “of what’s often called ‘second-chance’ or ‘fair-chance’ hiring could drive a triple win for the U.S. economy: Employers get the workers they need, people with convictions get jobs they need, and costs to society decline with the lower rates of re-offending that are associated with holding a job.”

But before turning to this group of candidates, HBR suggests you should work within your organization to address three persistent myths about people with criminal histories:

Myth #1: Workers with criminal records are likely to reoffend
Myth #2: Recidivism depends on the type of crime committed
Myth #3: There’s no way to tell whether someone will reoffend

To learn how to bust these myths with clear facts and data, be sure to check out HBR’s article at the top of our list below. And further down the list, you can also find out how interviewer tardiness can impact hiring outcomes; why multitasking may need to be accepted during workplace trainings; and why some laid off employees are still working for the very company that laid them off.