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Expungement - Clearing Record Improves Job Opportunities

By Steven Rodriguez

With California’s unemployment rate approaching 12%, jobs are hard to find these days. A criminal record drastically reduces your chances of being hired and limits your employment opportunities. Many employers will not hire people with a criminal record. People with a criminal conviction are not eligible to obtain a professional license, meaning they cannot work as a realtor, stock broker, doctor, lawyer or in certain other professions that require a state license. Oftentimes a misdemeanor conviction or a youthful indiscretion can create a considerable stumbling block to getting a job. Many employers simply throw out applications in which the answer to the question “Have you ever been convicted of a crime?” is answered “Yes...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).