March 4-5. 2015 Conference Focuses on Refugee Career Advancement Strategies

A March 4-5, 2015 conference in Dallas, TX will explore innovative strategies to help refugees achieve living wage jobs sooner.

A previous Higher eNewsletter featured the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Forced Migration Innovation Project’s (FMIP) research into refugee self-sufficiency through employment.

Here are a few of the planned topics to give you a better idea of what you can learn.

• Highlights of innovative strategies for career advancement from the past 30 years
• Technological innovations helping new immigrants understand their career choices in the U.S.
• ESL-to work innovations including technology and vocational ESL programs
• Collaboration examples between staffing agencies and refugee stakeholders
• Entrepreneurship, refugee-led innovations, the international perspective from Oxford University experts and more.

Click here to learn more about this unique opportunity.