Tent Partnership for Refugees

Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that the Tent Partnership for Refugees has been selected to the fourth-annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list, which recognizes companies making an extraordinary impact around the world! 🎉💯  Thank you TIME for highlighting Tent’s pioneering approach, transformational role in effectively galvanizing the world’s largest employers to connect refugees to jobs at scale – and underscoring that our work is “as valuable for the host countries and companies as it is for the refugees gaining employment.” Momentum has never been greater, and we are grateful to our 400 member companies for their ongoing partnership with Tent and growing efforts to integrate refugees – a number of whom are fellow 2024 #TIME100Companies honorees, including Amazon, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Rappi! https://lnkd.in/dX7Ea6Tx

Companies like HEB México, a member of #TentMéxico, know that hiring & integrating refugees and migrants makes their workforce stronger! 🌍 🤝   Learn more about their programs👇 Tent Partnership for Refugees

As language barriers remain a perennial challenge for many refugees seeking employment in the U.S., Yaron Schwartz Director of #TentUS joined EnGen for a webinar last month to discuss how the Tent Partnership for Refugees supports and advises employers on the ways they can help refugee job candidates and employees overcome language barriers 🌟 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eTeXyX2C

Forced to leave Yemen due to civil war, Mohammed left behind a successful career to find safety in the Netherlands. He faced challenges, spending two years in a refugee camp and taking on various jobs to provide for his family. Undeterred, Mohammed completed Salesforce training and web development and eventually found a place in Accenture’s Talent Track program, and secured a contract with the company shortly thereafter. Now working at Tent Partnership for Refugees’ member company Accenture, Mohammed has built a new life in Amsterdam with his wife and son. “I’m getting my citizenship, I have a good job, and most importantly, my family is safe. Our dreams and goals for the future are within reach again.” 💼 🤝 Read more about Mohammed’s journey: https://lnkd.in/dMU8_3hH

With around half a million refugees in Germany currently unemployed and 1.7 million jobs openings due to labor shortages, there is great urgency and a great opportunity for companies to step up and welcome refugees into their workforce. This week, Christian SCHMIDT, Director of Tent Deutschland led a workshop for the Jobcenter München team at their training day and shared insights on how to overcome some of the barriers to employment refugee jobseekers face and how employers approach recruiting from this talent pool. “Vielen Dank”, Markus Galuschka from Tent Deutschland member company SOCCO GROUP GmbH for speaking alongside us, and Jobcenter München for including Tent Partnership for Refugees in this great event! #HireRefugees #WirStellenGeflüchteteEin

As a refugee from Afghanistan, Sajad faced challenges finding a job in Canada despite his MBA and banking experience. Through Jumpstart Refugee Talent, he attended a hiring event and eventually landed a job with #TentCanada member TD. In his role Sajad helps Afghan and Iranian customers in their native language, and is one of the top performers at his branch! 🌟 🇦🇫 Read more about Sajad’s journey: https://lnkd.in/ejGXMZNW Tent Partnership for Refugees

Ronald Minaya's story is one of resilience and transformation! 🇻🇪 One of more than 7 million people who have fled Venezuela in recent years due economic and political instability, Ronald has been rebuilding his life in Mexico. After attending a hiring event in Mexico City, Ronald secured a job with #TentMéxico member company Marriott International and one day aspires to be a hotel manager! With over 1.25 million vacancies across the country, Tent México – now 60 companies and counting! – is committed to helping more #refugees, like Ronald, enter the local labor market. 💼🤝 Read more about Ronald’s story in El Pais: https://lnkd.in/efN3vzVT  Jorge Vaquero Simancas Tent Partnership for Refugees

Great to be back in Madrid today to meet with State Secretary Pilar Cancela Rodríguez at the Spanish Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones. With the Tent España coalition growing – now counting 45 of Spain’s largest employers in its ranks – we met to build on the formal partnership established between the Tent Partnership for Refugees and the Ministry last year and discuss ways we can further accelerate the labor market integration of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers currently living in Spain.

We are thrilled to announce that Tent España is welcoming a dozen new member companies! Tent España has gone from strength to strength and now counts 45 of the country’s largest employers in its network.  💪 🎉 With this expansion, businesses across the country are showing they’re committed to helping refugees and asylum seekers secure jobs and set down roots in Spain, all while strengthening their companies. Refugees are talented, motivated, and resilient – hiring them is a win-win-win – for refugees, companies, and the country as a whole! Reach out to learn how we can work together to help connect you to refugee talent! 🇪🇸 ¡Bienvenidos a Tent España! 🇪🇸 Allianz AmRest Berry Global, Inc. Cisco Citi PepsiCo Salesforce Squire Patton Boggs Swissport  Tata Consultancy Services https://lnkd.in/dE2fKqrF

In recent weeks, the Tent Partnership for Refugees continued to deepen our partnership with the IOM - UN Migration in an effort to connect more businesses across the Americas and Europe to an even larger pipeline of forcibly displaced talent! Check out some highlights ⬇️ 🤝 🌐 🇲🇽 Ileana C., Tent’s Deputy Director for the Americas joined Amy Pope, Alicia Barcena, Sec. of Foreign Affairs of Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México, and reps from Tent member companies like Claro Colombia, FEMSA, Foundever, and Walmart at IOM’s “Hemispheric Meeting on Regular Pathways for Labor Migration” to share the latest about #TentMexico and speak about how Tent supports major businesses in Mexico – and across the Americas  – to hire and integrate refugees and migrants into their workforces. 🇨🇦 Sophie Jama Malindi, Director for #TentCanada, joined Amy Pope, Director General of IOM and The Honourable Ratna Omidvar, C.M., O.Ont for an important roundtable discussion on labor migration in Canada with partners from the public, private, and NGO sectors. 🇸🇪 Karin Heri, Tent’s Director for Sweden, spoke at a session co-hosted by Tent at #Almedalen on the local labor market integration of refugees in Sweden alongside IOM & UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency – and featuring hiring insights from Tent member company PwC Sweden. Here's to continuing this important work together! 🙌