Limited employment opportunities are perhaps the most troublesome of the secondary legal consequences of conviction, since an inability to get or keep a job has been identified as a major factor in recidivism.
There is presently no single source of information about the mechanisms available
in each U.S. jurisdiction for avoiding or mitigating the collateral legal consequences of
conviction.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/File/Collateral Consequ...
First on the list are the other strictly legal consequences of conviction.
http://www.tomhudson.net/DUIConsequences.htm