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Employer Resources

Create a region where immigrants and refugees feel welcome, wanted, and important.
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Collaborative Services

We are here to help you enhance your strategies to recruit, retain, and advance local global talent. From internationally trained talent to early career professionals, we work with you to build your capacity to engage with immigrant, refugee, and international communities to meet your talent needs. We work to create inclusive policies and practices, connect immigrants and refugees to resources, and to increase the civic engagement of immigrant and refugee communities to broaden the bench of representation and create more inclusive policies.

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For Employers

We focus our work in areas of workforce development, small business development and growth, and civic engagement. Our work includes building inclusive recruitment, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and advancement strategies, understanding the intersections of immigration and work authorizations, and staying informed of current state and federal policy initiatives that enhance talent, attraction & retention efforts.

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Cincinnati Compass Employer Engagement

Create a region where immigrants and refugees feel welcome, wanted, and important.

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Bridging Language and Work: Solutions to Invest in Immigrant and Refugee Talent

This toolkit helps businesses and organizations identify strategies and solutions to better recruit, hire, and retain English language learners.

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Engaging Immigrant Talent: Successfully Integrating Immigrants into the Workplace- Recruitment, Retention, Promotion

This toolkit is for businesses and organizations seeking ways to successfully recruit, hire, and integrate immigrants and refugees into their workforce. This guide provides a pathway on how to do so: by using an immigrant and employer-informed toolkit that guides the process of cultural competence as a foundation for integration.

Immigrant audience attending a presentation at The Welcome Center

Engaging Immigrant Talent: Successfully Integrating Immigrants into the Workplace- Recruitment, Retention, Promotion

This toolkit is for businesses and organizations seeking ways to successfully recruit, hire, and integrate immigrants and refugees into their workforce. This guide provides a pathway on how to do so: by using an immigrant and employer-informed toolkit that guides the process of cultural competence as a foundation for integration.

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Our Region is at Work

More than 45% of immigrants and refugees in the Cincinnati region have a bachelor’s degree or higher and more than 45% have become US citizens. Research and data helps to tell the stories of immigrants in our community.

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