Dealing with employers or interviews.

Answers to your questions. Yes you will have to disclose your felony to employers. That is actually a good thing for you. Most employers have filters that basically put your application in the garbage with a felony marked yes. They do not want there time wasted for pointless interviews and either do u. Would u rather have 75 interviews that turn u down after u got all dressed up and spent weeks preparing for an interview or would u rather 2 or 3 that are still willing to sit with you after marking yes?

No there is no box that says you have to tell them your a sex offender. That part is completely up to you. In reality your enemy is not the interviewer, it's HR after they decide to want you. They are the ones that weigh your worth vs liability. The myth of getting jobs as long as it is not children is not true. Being tagged a sex offender means a risk to the company of public image because their company name will be placed on the public website as your employer, also safety to their employees, as well as the workplace nightmare of other employees finding out about you. So what do u do? Here is my best advice. Utilize the sex offender registry for yourself. Pull up every sex offender in your area and see where they work. Your odds are higher if u apply for those jobs the rest is up to u.

Majorconfusion wrote:Answers to your questions. Yes you will have to disclose your felony to employers. That is actually a good thing for you. Most employers have filters that basically put your application in the garbage with a felony marked yes. They do not want there time wasted for pointless interviews and either do u. Would u rather have 75 interviews that turn u down after u got all dressed up and spent weeks preparing for an interview or would u rather 2 or 3 that are still willing to sit with you after marking yes?

No there is no box that says you have to tell them your a sex offender. That part is completely up to you. In reality your enemy is not the interviewer, it's HR after they decide to want you. They are the ones that weigh your worth vs liability. The myth of getting jobs as long as it is not children is not true. Being tagged a sex offender means a risk to the company of public image because their company name will be placed on the public website as your employer, also safety to their employees, as well as the workplace nightmare of other employees finding out about you. So what do u do? Here is my best advice. Utilize the sex offender registry for yourself. Pull up every sex offender in your area and see where they work. Your odds are higher if u apply for those jobs the rest is up to u.

I appreciate your comments, although things work slightly differently in the UK and the USA which is where I assume you are from?

There is no option here to find out exactly where sex offenders live on a public website, I also very much doubt an employers business name can also be linked to a sex offender registry here as that would make it impossible to gain employment anywhere and is rather draconian, meaning that anyone with the same issues will never be employed again thus putting further strain on the tax payers burden here in government benefits.

If someone wants to know about sex offenders they have to have just cause for knowing here, i.e have children for example or be in a position of authority where they might need to know about such information, all the information will tell them is how many registered sex offenders live with a certain radius, not names or addresses. Also women can check about a partner if they have any convictions for sex offences, but neither of those are freely accessible and need proof of entitlement to such information as far as I know.

So again there is no way I could find out where other sex offenders are other than help from the probation service in terms of places that might hire me etc.

So you are on a registry that nobody knows about except for law enforcement and those with just cause? Consider yourself completely blessed. You have very little barriers than those in the US convicted of the same crimes

Majorconfusion wrote:So you are on a registry that nobody knows about except for law enforcement and those with just cause? Consider yourself completely blessed. You have very little barriers than those in the US convicted of the same crimes

As far as I understand the laws here yes, the main reason for it not being publicly available like Megan's Law is to allow offenders the chance for rehabilitation and the fear of mob mentality.
I think for such an interesting country the USA really is quite draconian in the way it deals with these things. For what it is worth I feel for anyone in the USA as it makes it so hard for people to live a normal life after such things, being publicly outed pushes people further underground and in hiding and probably escalates the issues further.

When someone is labelled a sex offender publicly then they don't really have anything left to lose as they have already lost everything. That really helps no one. I also feel that the law designed to protect children also don't do enough, there are no doubt many many people who abuse children who keep under the radar and are working in jobs where they have a lot of access to children throughout the world, unless you have been convicted of an offence then you are assumed to be a person that will not molest children.

Like I say my best hope is that it does not make the local paper, this will give me the best chance to live a normal life and to have to only let people who need to know, know about it.

When I first got out of prison I was trying to find jobs just so I could keep busy and finding employment as a child sex offenders is really hard and I also have CP on my record as well so I am the worse of the worse when it comes to trying to find a job. Its really nerve racking being at an interview and the person doing the hiring asking what is up with the sex offender charge and explaining what I did and how old the victim was. Thankfully I have some family money that my grandfather left me well before I went to prison for child molestation and he was already dead, found ways to invest my money and I am working right now as well to keep busy, my parole officer helped me find a job.

I guess all I can do is be honest with employers however hard it may be. Either they will give me a chance or they won't. I suppose I just have to work even harder for jobs and if I get given a chance to prove myself. Its all I can really do. Last thing I want is to be unemployed and struggling on white benefits.

My country has no register and I got permanent name suppression and a sealed file- my mental state was considered and the need to protect the identifys of the victims. Plus my solicitor was fantastic, proving that if you can afford it, get a good solicitor as it is worth every cent.