Giving Compass' Take:

· Individuals with criminal records often say the biggest struggle after release is finding a job. Fast Company analyzes the results of a poll of CEOs and hiring managers which shows an eagerness to hire formerly incarcerated people, but they lack a system to make it happen.

· How can companies increase these recruitment efforts?

· Read about job opportunities for people with criminal records.

America’s unemployment rate is down, clocking in at just under 4% according to a Bureau of Labor report in June. That’s left many employers in a crunch to find new talent.

One easy way to change that? Hire more people with criminal records. It’s a solution that most employers, managers, and employees would embrace, according to a recent poll by the Charles Koch Institute and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

“We did the poll because we often hear from those with criminal histories that one of the biggest challenges to finding employment is the stigma of a criminal record, and the reluctance of employers to hire people who have been incarcerated,” says Vikrant Reddy, a senior research fellow for criminal justice reform at the Charles Koch Institute in an email to Fast Company.

Read the full article about people with criminal records by Ben Paynter at Fast Company.