The Tent Foundation and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) recently launched the U.S. Employers’ Guide to Hiring Refugees.
“Companies can show leadership and send an important message by committing to hire refugees. This guidebook, developed in partnership with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, outlines essential information on the logistics, benefits, challenges and solutions related to refugee recruitment and employment retention in the United States.”
The U.S. Employers’ Guide to Hiring Refugees is a manual to assist businesses that are interested in hiring refugees and have questions about the logistics and practicality of hiring refugees in the United States. This Guide contains essential information on a variety of topics related to refugee recruitment and employment, including:
• An explanation of who refugees are and how they arrive in the United States
• The benefits of hiring refugees
• The logistics of finding and hiring refugees
• Common barriers – and solutions – to refugees entering and maintaining employment
Access this toolkit and other resources by visiting: www.tent.org.resources.