Global Talent: March 2023 Career Summit!

Starting your career over in a new country with different requirements, customs, and vocabularies can be an intimidating endeavor. That’s why Global Talent brings together New American job seekers and local business professionals for a day of networking and interview practice.

Global Talent’s most recent Career Summit took place March 17 at the College of Western Idaho in Boise, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Two dozen Idaho business professionals came together to network with and coach 10 Global Talent job seekers from countries including Mexico, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Columbia.

Job seekers went through multiple rounds of practice interviews for a hypothetical job in their field, whether that be education or management, engineering, or filmmaking.

“It’s a really important and heartfelt mission. I’m glad to be a part of this, and acknowledging all the courage it takes to put yourself on the line interviewing.”
-Volunteer interviewer

Thank you to every volunteer and job seeker for putting yourselves out there! These connections and times of growth are so important, both for the job seekers and for the Idaho communities who will benefit from the skills and experience they bring.

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Feedback from the summit:

• Volunteer: It showed the importance of “trying to be more cognizant of how many skilled and talented refugees and immigrants that we have here, and to try to listen to them more to see if we can find connections.”
• Job seeker: “I am glad to be here. Global Talent for me is the opportunity I needed, it’s the organization I need to go and get my job in my career. I think they are amazing, and thank you to everyone who participated in this event.”
• Volunteer: “(I'm) thinking about different innovative ways that we can approach recruitment and talent acquisition and the interviewing process, to make sure that we’re not overlooking some talent that we may have otherwise overlooked."

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