Employers
Group Mentoring for Immigrant and Refugee Professionals: Discover twelve steps to launching a successful group mentoring program for immigrants and refugees. These programs offer employers new ways to tap into hard-to-access talent pools, while providing job seekers an effective way to enhance networks and build the knowledge and soft skills they need to achieve their career goals.
Bridging the Gap for New Americans: A report from the Department of Labor outlines how new Americans possess the potential to enrich the U.S. labor market and contribute to economic innovation. It also offers suggestions on how organizations can create new pathways for these individuals and how research can lay the foundation for tailoring these interventions effectively.
Strengthening Workforces Through Immigrant and Refugee Inclusion: This report from World Education Services (WES) outlines expanding access to occupational licenses, pathways to workforce inclusion and expanding higher education access for forcibly displaced individuals.
Recruiting Refugees and Immigrants into the CNA Workforce – A Guide for Employers: The toolkit provides a contextual overview of refugee resettlement, outlines the multifaceted benefits of hiring refugees, explains how to facilitate the hiring of refugee workers, and details successful outreach mechanisms to achieve this.
The nonprofit Tent Partnership for Refugees, started by Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya, now helps 250 companies worldwide find, hire, and train people who have been forcibly displaced. And membership in Tent’s Coalition for Refugees in the U.S. launched last September, has grown to more than 100 businesses.
Employers may be eligible for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit if they hire new refugee arrivals. Here is the WOTC Business Guide. You can watch a short video about the WOTC program here.
Toolkit: Bridging Language and Work: Solutions to Invest in Immigrant and Refugee Talent: This toolkit outlines how companies can implement solutions to overcome language barriers to help local language learners get into jobs faster as they work towards proficiency. This guide is a collaboration between the Tent Partnership for Refugees and Jobs for the Future. Welcoming America shared insights and examples from the Welcoming Network and the Welcoming International alliance with the report authors to inform the content. Read here.
Welcome.US Refugee Hiring Resources Guide
A Roadmap for Employers Hiring Afghan Newcomers: As employment staff around the country assist Afghan newcomers with finding their first U.S. jobs, preparing job candidates for interviews is only one part of the process. Employment staff will need to consider that many companies are new to hiring this population and will also need guidance on how to prepare their HR teams to welcome this new workforce. This blog post shares tips for hiring Afghan newcomers