The Ban the Box Ads for Business in the Community Sheds Light on Cons
To shed light on how ex-convicts are looked at in the job world, Business in the Community, a company based in the UK, hired Leo Burnett London to create an ad to help remove the requirement to tick the box on hiring forms stating one has a criminal record.
The ads look like regular CVs, but instead of showing profiles of smiling faces and action words stating past achievements, the sentences reflect what a recruiter would actually be thinking when reading the resume. "He's been inside. 5 months. It throws you. 'An ex-offender' you think." These are just some of the lines that demonstrate how people tend to think knowing a potential hire has spent time in and out of prison.
The ads look like regular CVs, but instead of showing profiles of smiling faces and action words stating past achievements, the sentences reflect what a recruiter would actually be thinking when reading the resume. "He's been inside. 5 months. It throws you. 'An ex-offender' you think." These are just some of the lines that demonstrate how people tend to think knowing a potential hire has spent time in and out of prison.
