Impact of Fair Chance Hiring Training
Why Fair Chance Hiring Makes Business Sense.
Make sure to Save This Date! Wednesday, March 11th
This is going to be fantastic training. It's free. It addresses company needs. Will help revamp hiring policies that may be outdated, and help you feel peace about fair chance hires. We'll deal with concrete numbers, statistics, and practical ways forward. Also, your company will be making a meaningful difference. This is a first-time collaboration with local organizations and Jobs for the Future here in Durham.
Free lunch will be provided. And it will be your company getting ahead of where hiring practices are heading anyway. It will be valuable and meaningful. I hope you join.
As hiring challenges persist and costs rise, employers are looking for practical, proven ways to fill roles more efficiently without sacrificing performance or safety.
Employers in every sector are navigating tighter margins and higher costs, from materials and services to wages and benefits. At the same time, many organizations are quietly losing money to unfilled positions, overtime, temporary staff, and turnover in hard‑to‑fill roles.
This session will focus on how to spend your talent dollars more efficiently while strengthening your workforce through fair chance hiring.
During this collaborative session, we will:
Take a clear look at concrete stats where people‑related costs add up today (vacancies, overtime, temporary/agency use, repeated recruiting).
Show how fair chance hiring practices can help you tap into a broader talent pool, fill chronic vacancies, and reduce churn without lowering your performance or safety expectations.
Spend time on the partnership and pipeline side of fair chance hiring, exploring how to build or strengthen ongoing talent pipelines with partners who support people with records (workforce boards, training providers, community‑based organizations, and others).
Share concrete examples of how employers in other regions have worked with partners to source, prepare, and support fair chance talent over time.
Introduce simple tools you can use to map your current recruiting relationships, identify gaps, and spot opportunities to turn one‑off referrals into reliable pipelines.
Give you space to sketch what a local fair chance talent pipeline could look like for your organization, based on the partners and networks you already know.
You’ll leave with:
Concrete next steps you can take, whether you’re a small business or a large employer, to use fair chance hiring as one practical tool to manage costs and strengthen your workforce.
A clearer picture of what strong partnerships can look like, plus practical prompts you can use after the session to start, deepen, or better align those relationships in your own context.
We invite you to save the date and join fellow employers for a focused, practical discussion on how fair chance hiring can support your business goals.
Learn more about the incredible work Jobs For the Future is doing here: Jobs For the Future - Center for Justice & Economic Advancement
In collaboration with, StepUp Durham, Jobs For the Future, NC Works Career Center of Durham, and Justice Services Department of Durham County
