From IT & healthcare to transportation & retail, unprecedented demand for #skilledlabor is an opportunity to connect #refugeetalent to jobs across #Canada 🇨🇦

Here's which jobs are most in-demand👇
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🗣️'If I had to fit in, I wouldn’t be where I am'

A former child refugee herself, Rola Dagher's leadership at Dell Technologies & support of #refugees in Lebanon is a must-read🙌

Via National Post ⤵️
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The power of connection!🔗🙌 We're proud to have helped Macphie & Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 collaborate on refugee hiring in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Immigrants — & refugees! — are well-positioned to fill crucial labor shortages across the U.S. in the coming years, including in the healthcare industry.

New findings from Minneapolis Fed show why licensing rules are too often a barrier, via The Wall Street Journal 🗞️

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Immigrant. Advocate. Leader!💪

President of LIRS — and friend of Tent Partnership for Refugees! — Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, is reimagining what it means to resettle #refugees in the United States.

Read the profile, via Baltimore magazine📰⤵️

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In a collaboration with Tent Partnership for Refugees and CAMSC, TD is pleased to announce the launch a new certification program for businesses owned by entrepreneurs who recently arrived to Canada as refugees. Click below to view the press release. #supplierdiversity

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🚨 Research Alert🚨

New findings show that a pragmatic approach to employing #refugees offers more benefits, as managers fully recognize refugees’ agency & skills!

Read the four practical tips for managers ⤵️ via The Conversation Canada 📝

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At the #NetPositiveSummit last week, the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance announced a partnership with Tent to make employment opportunities available to #refugees in the #hospitality sector.

Learn more about what the alliance is doing to support refugees: sustainablehospitalityalliance.org

In Australia 🇦🇺 — and around the globe! — #refugees have the potential to fill skills shortages across key sectors, including medicine & engineering 🩺 🔦 ⤵️

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'The Tent Partnership for Refugees and the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC)...are launching a certification program for businesses owned by entrepreneurs who recently arrived to #Canada as #refugees .' ow.ly/85ss50La9Cj Tent Partnership for Refugees

In Europe 🇪🇺, companies can lessen barriers & further support the integration of #refugee women into the workforce!🤝

Tent Partnership for Refugees research w/Economist Impact highlights four success stories⤵️

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“This [Afghan Adjustment Act] would give my family and me much more patience,” Jamal said. “It would allow us to feel secure and more mentally relaxed about our future.” 💙

We must protect our #AfghanAllies ⤵️

The Afghan-American Foundation #AAAFireWatch

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ONLY by creating more expansive resettlement pathways for refugees & asylum seekers can we reduce dangerous journeys to the border

Refugee rights orgs are correct to criticize the continued expulsion of Venezuelans back to Mexico… but we welcome the administration’s announcement yesterday of new sponsorship program to help Venezuelans reach the U.S. safely. (1/2) nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/…

'For all we’ve been through, somewhere along the way, my family became as much a part of the fabric of America as anyone who was born here.'🇺🇸

Joseph M. Azam, Board Chair The Afghan-American Foundation, reflects on growing up a refugee & #AfghanAdjustmentAct

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