{"id":134171,"date":"2026-03-10T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:01:15","slug":"fair-chance-employers-connect-with-job-seekers-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134171\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fair chance&#8217; employers connect with job seekers in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 An event in Reading on Monday helped job seekers who need a second chance.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionswork.org\/about-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Connections Work&#8221;<\/a> hosted a spring career fair at the DoubleTree Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone could attend, but the event featured employers who offer \u201cfair chance\u201d employment. That means they will hire people who are on probation or parole, or who have past involvement in the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stats are 1 out of 3 people nationwide have had some type on infraction in their past, so an employer who&#8217;s not able to or not willing to hire someone with a background is actually losing out on one third of the potential talent pool,\u201d said Lori Stoudt, with Connections Work.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also hosts a job fair like this one in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 An event in Reading on Monday helped job seekers who need a second chance. &#8220;Connections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61998,61997,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-134171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-connections-work","tag-fair-chance-employment","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}