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A real photo of Troy Richard Carr at a library table with his laptop, taped up beside a sample resume.
I am Troy. I build Steel Man Resumes myself: the state pages, the local help listings, the employer checks, the Forge and the Refinery. There is no staff and no funder. Everything a job seeker or a program touches here is free, and the code is public.
Here is the honest part. When someone types “resume with a felony” into Google or asks an AI assistant where to start, they mostly do not get this site. They get paid resume builders and ad pages. Those sites have hundreds of other sites pointing at them. As of November 2026, this one has one partner link.
I can write every page and check every listing, and I do. I cannot vouch for my own site. Only you can do that, and it takes you about five minutes.
Three things nobody tells small organizations
A link is a vote. Google decides what to show by asking which pages other trusted pages point to. A link from a reentry coalition, a public defender, a probation office or a library says: this site is real, and it is about this. One link from a page like yours does more for a state page than a year of writing on my end.
A name is a vote too. The AI assistants work a little differently. They cite the pages that other trusted sources name and describe the same way. So a line in your printed guide or your newsletter, with no link at all, still counts, as long as it says Steel Man Resumes and says what it is.
Freshness is a vote. A page that is checked and dated, and that people come back to, beats a bigger page that went stale. That is why every listing here shows the day it was last checked, and why I would rather hear that something is wrong than have it sit.
What I am doing until this is the answer
- The law, sourced to the statute and dated: ban the box, background check limits, sealing and expungement.
- Local help, checked by phone or by the organization itself, with the date shown on every listing.
- Employers marked “Hires people with records” only on written confirmation, with the evidence shown and an expiry date.
- The Forge and the Refinery free for the people in that state and for the programs beside them.
- A review every week: what people searched for, what they found, what was wrong, what got fixed.
The goal is simple to say and slow to earn: when a person with a record searches for how to get hired, Steel Man Resumes is the answer they get and the tool they use next. We will not claim it until it is true.
Pick one. Any one.
01 / Link to the page for your state
A resources, reentry or community page on your site, with one line pointing at steelmanresumes.com/jobs-for-felons/your-state. Word it however your page needs. This is the single most useful thing on this list.
Steel Man Resumes: [state] record laws, employers that hire people with records, local help, and a free resume tool. https://www.steelmanresumes.com/jobs-for-felons/[state]
02 / Name us on a handout or in a newsletter
No link needed. The AI assistants cite what other trusted sources name, so a line in a printed guide, a client packet or your own newsletter counts, as long as the name is the same every time: Steel Man Resumes.
03 / Share it with one caseworker
Send the Forge to one person who sits across the table from job seekers. forge.steelmanresumes.com, free, no code needed. If it helps their people, they will tell the next caseworker. That is how this has grown so far.
04 / Introduce one person
If you know one person who runs a resource page, a reentry coalition, a library guide or a workforce office, an email introduction from you is worth more than ten cold emails from me.
05 / Tell us what is wrong
Open your state page. If a listing is stale, a law line is out of date or an employer is gone, reply and say so. A page that is right is a page people come back to, and search engines notice that too.
06 / Money, said once
Nobody funds this. If money is the way you can help, email troy@steelmanresumes.com and I will send the details. It is the last item on this list on purpose. Every item above it is free, and most of them do more.
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