Should You Hire People in Recovery?

Empowering second chances for the best hiring decisions

Heather Lowe Award Winning Sober Coach
Black Bear
Published in
3 min readMay 2, 2024

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Alcohol creates a landmine of workplace risk, yet when someone comes to the hiring table after recovering, we get very nervous. Our first thought is to turn them away. Why is this? We fear relapse, of course, and turnover. We have a hard time trusting them. Plus, how strange for someone to not join in the…

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Heather Lowe Award Winning Sober Coach
Black Bear

FREE SOBER SECRETS GUIDE www.ditchedthedrink.com Certified Recovery and Life Coach, BSW, PHR, Certified Facilitator of Addiction Awareness, SheRecovers Coach