Upwardly Global creates employer partnerships that benefit from access to the talent pool of over 1.8 million immigrants in the U.S. who are college educated, but are unemployed or underemployed. We also provide customized training and support for these new Americans to give them an equal opportunity to find and secure skill appropriate opportunities and achieve their full economic potential in the U.S. The outcome is global talent for employers, culturally competent service providers for diverse communities, and family sustaining incomes for those who were previously unemployed or underemployed.
Upwardly Global creates employer partnerships that benefit from access to the talent pool of over 1.8 million immigrants in the U.S. who are college educated, but are unemployed or underemployed. We also provide customized training and support for these new Americans to give them an equal opportunity to find and secure skill appropriate opportunities and achieve their full economic potential in the U.S. The outcome is global talent for employers, culturally competent service providers for diverse communities, and family sustaining incomes for those who were previously unemployed or underemployed.
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What is your organization aiming to accomplish?
Upwardly Global's organizational goals are to connect talent rich, employment-ready newcomers to professional employment opportunities.
What are your strategies for making this happen?
We connect our clients by addressing two sides of the workforce equation - supply and demand. On the workforce supply side, we ensure that our job seekers are ready for the rigors of the US workforce - it's customs, it's credentials, it's culture. On the demand side, we work closely with employers, many Fortune 500 companies, to provide guidance on visa and other legal issues. We co-host skills-based volunteer opportunities with our employer partners like mock interviews or speed networking, which facilitate meaningful interactions between immigrant professionals and their American counterparts, allowing job seekers to further build out their professional networks and practice new skills whilst enabling employers to develop more equitable and inclusive HR processes.
What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?
Upwardly Global has a holistic model to connect our job seeker to the professional job market. The process is described below. 1. Outreach: Our Outreach Associates connect with refugee and immigrant communities and build an ecosystem of referral partners. 2. Onboarding: Our Onboarding Associates work with job seekers to determine their fit for our program (e. g. work authorization, education level), screen their initial resume, and guide them through the mandatory English language assessment. 3. Coaching: After being admitted to our program and completing their orientation, job seekers are connected to their “job coach”. They provide one-on-one coaching to job seekers, help them tailor their resume, practice for upcoming interviews, and craft cover letters, before connecting job seekers to employers for interviews. 4. Community: UpGlo Alum, Employer Partners, our Leadership Council and fellow job seekers are a value-add built -in support network, providing job leads and support.
How will your organization know if you are making progress?
Using a customized Salesforce database, we track the following: • Pre-UpGlo employment/income: Our application requires each job seeker to report any employment or income at the time of intake. This allows us to determine whether a job seeker was unemployed or underemployed at the time of intake. • Post-UpGlo employment/income: Once a job seeker secures a professional placement, they self-report their new professional role, employer, and new starting salary. This allows us to quantitatively assess how their financial stability as improved as a result of UpGlo’s program and qualitatively determine career growth. Tracking new placement outcomes allows us to collect data over time on the careers and sectors in which our job seekers are placing. • Employment retention: UpGlo staff follow-up with alumni 1-year post placement to determine the rate at which our job seekers are retaining professional employment, as well as whether they have received any promotions or salary increases.
What have and haven't you accomplished so far?
Since our founding, we have connected job seekers to the workforce. . . 5,600+ Hired Into Professional Jobs 50%+ of placements are in high-demand STEM fields: IT, Engineers, Physicians, and Healthcare Average Income Gain: $45,000 Number of Family Members Supported: 4,500
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