Refugee Talent

Join us next Fri night as part of Spark festival in Sydney as we share stories of Naveen & Matthew from Eizo, community lawyer and refugee rights advocate Fadak, Rnita from Refugee Council of Australia and Hussein from NSW Office of Environment & Heritage. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/meet-fada k-in-collaboration…

Are you a Surveyor with qualifications in Spatial Science (GIS or Survey)and experience in ESRI GIS, utilities and construction survey, 2D and 3D CAD software. We have a role based in Melbourne working with a large engineering firm. Apply at https://refugeetalent.com/

Are you looking for a farmhand role in regional Victoria? We have a role open where you will have an acre of your own land to farm. Job duties include:
1. Assisting with day to day duties relating to cropping and livestock; 2. Repairing and maintaining vehicles, implements and machinery; 3. Assisting with cropping operations at peak times (for example, sowing and harvest); and... 4. Assisting with livestock operations at peak times (for example, shearing, lambing and crutching); and 5. Carrying out other general farming duties as required from time to time.
If you are interested in this role, register at https://refugeetalent.com/
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Our partners Talent Beyond Boundaries are thrilled to announce the release of their newest report “Global Refugee Talent: Business Leaders Share Insights on the Skills and Potential of the Global Refugee Talent Pool”. The report is being released in the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
It includes reflections from 10 corporate partners, including Australian employers John Holland, IRESS and Harvey Beef, about their experiences remotely recruiting talented refugees. When TBB began its pilot project to link refugees with international employment we were often asked whether companies would be willing to recruit refugees internationally. This report shows resoundingly that yes, companies are keen to make this happen. http://talentbeyondboundaries.org/s/TBB-B usinessPerspective…

Last week our Co-Founder Anna attended the Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 in Edinburgh for Refugee Talent. It was great to hear about businesses such as WildHearts Group who provide stationary to businesses such as Deloitte and Johnson and Johnson and use the profits for social change such as micro loans. The conference itself worked with over 40 social enterprises in their supply chain with expenditure of £412,000 (GDP) from an overall budget of £764,000.

Join us as part of Spark Festival as the #MeetFadak speaking tour arrives in Sydney as Fadak Alfayadh sits down in collaboration with Refugee & Migrant Talent. Fadak is a community lawyer, writer, gender equality and refugee rights advocate. She is travelling around Australia to dispel the myths around refugees through story-telling. http://sparkfestival.co/…/meet-fadak-in -collaboration-with-…

Nirary Co-Founder of Refugee Talent appeared in this recent ABC article http://www.abc.net.au/…/asylum-seekers- removed-fro…/10203008

It was great to attend yesterday with our partners Talent Beyond Boundaries the Institute of Public Administration WA's event 'From global to local: embedding diversity as a competitive and personal advantage' as part of 2018 IPAA WA Espresso Series.
We heard from one of our success stories Talar Anjer Koushian now working as a Treasury Analyst at South 32 who shared her personal story leaving Aleppo and Robyn King shared lessons learned from South32.

Our partners TBB are looking for butchers from refugee background in Jordan and Lebanon. If you know anyone please share.

Meet another one of our success stories Sharifa,
“Hi, my name is Sharifa Rahimi and I am from Afghanistan I have been in Australia for six years and finished my studies on September 2017. After my studies I worked with one of my family friends for a few months. I was looking for jobs online to find a part-time job for myself but it was really hard to find one because of my lack of local experience.
Until my caseworker who was working at Red Cross told me about Gabrielle fro...m Red Crosses Employment who was running that program. She set me up for workshops how to write a resume and cover letter. And then she set me up with a mentor and someone from a company who wanted to help me find jobs and how to write a good resume.
Karina was my mentor and sending my resume to organisations and one of them was Refugee Talent. They contacted me that a company called Plutora was looking for an Office Allrounder, so Karina told me and I went for the interview and I got accepted which I am very happy and thankful for. I don’t think I would have been employed if Refugee Talent wasn’t here.”
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Andrew Keast from Refugee Talent attended the Social Traders conference this week in Melbourne. “Social procurement represents the greatest opportunity for social impact” - Mark Daniels, Social Traders. Congratulations to John Holland one of the companies we work with for winning 'Social Procurement in Action Award', very well deserved for all the great work they do in hiring refugees and migrants.

Refugee Talent attended the Regions of Welcome conference in Toowoomba today. Toowoomba is a great example of successful regional resettlement. Many more regional areas are looking to attract skilled refugees and migrants to their towns and RT can help match regional employers with the right talent.

Our partners HOST International were excited to have British political economist and writer Philippe Legrain speak in NZ about the benefits of hiring refugees.

One of the great companies we work with TripAdvisor are doing great things in America, teaming up to help newly arrived refugees get to know their new hometowns as they start their lives in the U.S. Check out the Welcome Home campaign. https://www.tripadvisor.com/blog/welcomeh ome/

Passionate job seekers in Palmerston North enrolling on the ⁦Refugee Talent job platform now we are in NZ with our partners HOST International. Job seekers included a fully qualified doctor & lawyer still looking for work in NZ #timeforchange

Manpower Group have just published their Talent Shortage research for 2018 https://go.manpowergroup.com/talent-short age-2018
More employers than ever are struggling to fill open jobs — 45% globally say they can't find the skills they need. We have untapped Talent at Refugee Talent. Check out our Talent at https://refugeetalent.com/
The top 10 industries in demand include: ... 1. Trades 2. Sales 3. Engineers 4. Drivers 5. Technicians 6. IT 7. Accounting 8. Professionals 9. Office support 10. Manufacturing
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