2nd Chance Job Fair 2024

2nd Chance Job Fair 2024

The 2nd Chance Job Fair is to connect businesses with available workforce. For Formerly Incarcerated Persons (FIP) and open to the public.

By Re-Entry Community Partners

Date and time

Wednesday, July 24 · 10am - 12pm CDT

Location

1373 S College Rd

1373 South College Road Lafayette, LA 70503

About this event

Businesses click Register to reserve your recruitment table at this event.

There is no cost to register.

Table and chairs will be provided. Exhibiting employers can bring any signs, table cloths, displays, and promotional items.

Benefits / Incentives to hire formerly incarcerated persons:

  • Federal Bonding Program issues fidelity bonds which are business insurance policies that provide protection to employers hiring formerly incarcerated individuals against theft, forgery, larceny, or embezzlement.
  • Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) - federal tax credit for employers who hire ex-felons within one year of their release
  • Workforce Job Training may offset some of the initial expense of employers hiring individuals whiling training them on the job.

Presented by:

  • Fellowship Full Gospel Ministries
  • Lafayette Economic Development Authority - LEDA
  • Lafayette Sheriff's Office
  • Louisiana Dept. of Corrections - Probation and Parole
  • Louisiana Workforce Commission/ Acadiana Workforce Solutions

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On Sale May 1 at 12:00 AM