Companies that signed on to best practices for recruiting and hiring the long-term unemployed in January are already reporting progress, October 15, 2014.

• In January, the Administration engaged with America’s businesses to develop best practices for hiring and recruiting the long-term unemployed to ensure that these candidates receive a fair shot during the hiring process
• Over 80 of the nation’s largest businesses have signed on to implement these best practices, including 20 members of the Fortune 50, as well as over 200 small- and medium-sized businesses
• Many of these employers are already reporting that applying those best practices in their businesses has led to positive progress in opening doors to hire the long-term unemployed
• And that these practices not only support unemployed Americans in getting back to work, but enable the employers implementing them to improve their talent pool.
• See also FACT SHEET: Getting Long-Term Unemployed Americans Back to Work