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Visit the National Criminal Justice Initiatives Map to find organizations in your state that help justice-involved individuals secure training and employment. Also supplied is a map legend that confirms where the funding for these grants originates so you can better determine if the focus is on training, employment, or both.

Please note that this map is created and managed by the Federal Interagency Reentry Council. The U.S. Department of Labor is providing this information as a service to employers and other constituents and as such does not reflect an endorsement of these programs.

Nearly 3,000 American Job Centers nationwide help businesses meet workforce needs and help jobseekers find work.

Locate your closest American Job Center, where you can connect with a Business Services Representative for help recruiting job candidates, or training and retaining your employees.

Centers vary from state to state, or even from town to town, based on the labor market’s needs in their locale. As such, your local American Job Center may be called:

• One-Stop Career Center
• Workforce Center
• Workforce Services
• CareerLink

Remember that the staffing services offered to employers are at no cost to you.

Hiring the right employees is essential to every organization’s success. Find tools and best practices for the critical steps in your hiring process.

Identify Your Hiring Needs
Learn about skills, salaries, and job descriptions before you recruit and hire. Also, see if internships, temporary agency workers, or a recruiting firm would be a good fit.

Where to Find Candidates
Learn where and how to recruit qualified candidates at no cost. Job banks, local schools, job fairs, and professional associations can all be great sources.

Interview & Hire
How effective is your hiring process? Refresh your practices with information on pre-screening, employment assessments, illegal interview questions, negotiating an offer, and more.

Expand Your Workforce
Tips and legal information for hiring workers with disabilities, youth, foreign nationals, justice-impacted, older workers, immigrants, and veterans.