Until the boom and innovation of the Internet, job applicants had more privacy when submitting their resumes and CVs with a potential employer or company. Today, the personal lives of job seekers are more exposed due to the accessibility of background check technology and criminal history scanning. If you have experienced job rejection over and over again after being subjected to a background scan, or if you have been overlooked for job promotions due to your criminal history, you may be happy to learn that there could be a solution to your vocational challenges and setbacks.
Continue reading to learn how you can prevent background checks from getting in the way of your career goals.
Background Check Basics
When you search the Internet, you will find that there are thousands of background check resources available. Some are free, while others charge a fee depending on how comprehensive of the scan you want. In terms of employers, companies generally perform a comprehensive background check that would reveal a person’s criminal history, and perhaps even their employment and rental history.
These background check portals are available to the general public, which includes your employers, as well as the person you just asked that on a date, your school admissions office, your landlord, your bank, your mother-in-law, your next-door neighbor, your coworker, and anyone else who wants to know what your personal record holds.
With a better understanding of how easily accessible background check resources are online, you can now understand why it is so important to clean up your criminal record. After all, it is the criminal part of a personal record that generally holds a person back from getting a job or obtaining a desired job promotion. This is the area of focus you want to put your energy into.
Criminal Record Expungement
Here in Indiana, legislation has passed a new criminal record expungement law known as Indiana’s Second Chance Law. For those who qualify, the Indiana Second Chance Law allows approved petitioners to expunge or seal arrest records, and in some cases, criminal records, from their personal history reports. Once expungement or record sealing is approved, the general public can no longer access said criminal record. However, law enforcement and federal government authorities can. With criminal record expungement and record sealing services available for those who qualify, job seeking looks much more promising.
Seek Professional Legal Assistance to Get Started
Criminal record expungement and record sealing comes with all sorts of complex stipulations and procedures. It is vital that you outsource professional legal assistance to help you fill out and submit your cruel record expungement petition. Applicants are only allowed to petition for criminal record expungement and record sealing one time, so if they mess up, they lose the chance forever. This is why it is important to have an Indianapolis expungement lawyer assist you through the process.
Criminal record expungement services in Indiana start as low as $850 when you choose the Law Office of David Lewis. Contact us at 317-636-7514 to connect with one of our esteemed criminal defense attorneys in Indianapolis, Indiana. We can meet over the phone, via online video conference, or in person at our office.
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