Mission
The number of college-educated immigrants to the US grew from to 5,821,690 to 7,800,043 (a growth rate of 34%) between 2000 and 2005 . At the same time, the foreign born population of the United States increased from 30,760,065 to 35,689,842 (a growth rate of 16%) . However, even with more education than the majority of immigrants and extensive job experience, these immigrants still have tremendous difficulty finding jobs in their career fields. Over half of all legal immigrants to the US work in lower-skilled jobs than their education or experience has prepared them for.
Upwardly Global helps immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals find jobs in their career fields. To date, over 800 immigrants from around 103 countries have secured jobs in their respective career fields with the help of this organization. . It operates on the belief that the hiring of immigrant professionals is beneficial not only to the individuals themselves but to the American economy, emulating Stephen Moore's belief that:
| “ | In a global economy where the resource that is most scarce is human capital, our ability to attract the best and the brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs is unquestionably one of the nation's greatest comparative advantages. | ” |
To qualify for Upwardly Global's free services, immigrants must have:
- Been born in a least developed country or newly industrialized country as according to UN definitions (i.e. non-Western countries)
- A university-level education
- Permanent, legal U.S. work authorization (not employer sponsored)
- Proficient (not perfect) English skills
- At least two years' job experience in their career field
They cannot be or have been:
- Already working in their career field here in the US
- In the US for over five years
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“Every Age has its own peculiar faith.... Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)