Taking the Risk Out of Fair-Chance Hiring
03/08/24 • 20 min
One in every three US adults has a criminal record that follows them like a lead weight as they look for work. Lina Bankert, managing director and partner in BCG’s Chicago office, and Kathleen St. Louis Caliento, president and CEO of Cara Collective, explain that formerly incarcerated people can be model employees. Hiring always involves risk. By partnering with government agencies and nonprofit organizations, companies can set up fair-chance hires for success in the workplace. Many of them, for example, also need help with housing and transportation that agencies can provide.
Learn More:
- Lina Bankert: on.bcg.com/4c7gm2Q
- Kathleen St. Louis Caliento: Kathleen St. Louis Caliento - Cara Collective
- Three Roads to Equitable and Inclusive Talent Development: on.bcg.com/3xifUQa
- Cara Collective: Home - Cara Collective
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
One in every three US adults has a criminal record that follows them like a lead weight as they look for work. Lina Bankert, managing director and partner in BCG’s Chicago office, and Kathleen St. Louis Caliento, president and CEO of Cara Collective, explain that formerly incarcerated people can be model employees. Hiring always involves risk. By partnering with government agencies and nonprofit organizations, companies can set up fair-chance hires for success in the workplace. Many of them, for example, also need help with housing and transportation that agencies can provide.
Learn More:
- Lina Bankert: on.bcg.com/4c7gm2Q
- Kathleen St. Louis Caliento: Kathleen St. Louis Caliento - Cara Collective
- Three Roads to Equitable and Inclusive Talent Development: on.bcg.com/3xifUQa
- Cara Collective: Home - Cara Collective
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Previous Episode
Gender Equality in Africa Has Been Set Back a Generation
From 2010 to 2016, Africa was closing the gender gap faster than any region in the world. Challenges such as plunging commodity prices and the pandemic have set that progress back a generation. BCG’s Zineb Sqalli and Phillipa Osakwe-Okoye explain that domestic violence as well as unsafe public places are barriers in southern Africa. Traditional roles of women in families stand in the way of progress everywhere. Both public and private sectors must change the narrative to create inclusive work environments. Besides being the right thing to do, gender equity could boost Africa’s GDP by $300 billion a year.
Learn More:
Reframing the Narrative on Women’s Roles in African Societies: on.bcg.com/3UQd3Hx
Zineb Sqalli: on.bcg.com/3wqCoO7
Phillipa Osakwe-Okoye: on.bcg.com/3UOVhnO
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
Next Episode
BCG PRESENTS: Imagine This...: A Bot in the C-Suite?
What would you have done differently if you had anticipated the likelihood of a global pandemic or the explosion of generative AI? In BCG’s newest podcast Imagine This..., BCG’s editor in chief Paul Michelman, and his AI co-host GENE delve into disruptive scenarios that could define the coming decades. BCG experts join the conversation, probing the possibilities and implications for leaders. Human and machine work together to explore the very real actions CEOs could take today to prepare.
By 2030, the best CIO might be a CIB: a chief intelligence bot. And the human CEO might be bolstered by a swarm of CEO bots, able to harness a vast diversity of perspectives. Can you imagine? In this episode, BCG’s Mickey McManus envisions a future where top leaders share the corner office with AI—blending the logical with human intuition. Mickey, a BCG senior advisor and a pioneer in human-centered design, considers how a company like this would function. Hint: he recommends an approach much like jazz improvisation.
Learn More
You’ll find more of what BCG has to say about generative AI here:
GenAI on GenAI: https://lnk.to/bcg-genai-on-genai-series-link05
Also, in this episode, Mickey recommends an entirely new reading list for the C-suite, including:
Iain M. Banks’s Culture series: https://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-9-book-series/dp/B07WLZZ9WV
Joy Buolamwini’s Unmasking AI [https://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-AI-Mission-Protect-Machines/dp/0593241835]
Safiya Umoja Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression [https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Oppression-Search-Engines-Reinforce/dp/1479837245]
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
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