What's New
- All Blog Posts
- Credential Advice
- Funding and Financing for Impact
- Welcoming Communities in Action
- Worker and Employer Strategies
- Adult Education
- Building Skills
- Career Pathways
- Credential Advice
- Credential Evaluations
- Culture & Experience
- Economic Mobility
- Employer Practices
- Employment
- Featured Articles
- Featured Articles
- Financial Access and Inclusion
- Funding and Financing for Impact
- Health Care
- Immigrant Engagement
- Immigrant Leadership
- Immigration
- IMPRINT
- Innovative Finance
- International Students
- Internationally Educated Teachers
- Licensure Pathways
- ONA Network
- Partnerships
- Policy
- Policy Advocacy
- Policy and Policy Advocacy
- Programs and Partners
- Promising Practices
- Refugee Resettlement
- SIIP
- Skill Underutilization
- UntappedTalent
- Welcoming Communities in Action
- WES Help
- WES News
- WES Style Guide | Brand Guides
- WES Style Guide | Content Style Guide
- WES Style Guide | Development
- What's New
- Worker and Employer Strategies
- Worker Cooperatives
- Workforce Education
- Workforce Inclusion
- Workforce Integration
- Wraparound Supports
Get Started with Your WES (World Education Services) Credential Evaluation
WES Advisor |
If you are considering study or work in the U.S. or Canada, you will most likely need a credential evaluation report. A credential evaluation report from WES provides an accurate and authenticated record of the educational or professional qualifications you earned in other countries, including degrees, diplomas, and transcripts. WES credential evaluation reports help schools, […]
Fund Ambassadors Grow a Community of Philanthropic Giving at WES: Announcing New Donations
In 2019, the WES Mariam Assefa Fund launched the Fund Ambassador program, which engages staff from across WES to develop skills in philanthropy and identify mission-aligned organizations to receive Fund donations. This month, we celebrate the accomplishments of the third cohort of Fund Ambassadors, made up of WES employees across multiple departments. The Fund Ambassadors […]
H-1B Regulatory Requirements and Updates
Lucy Cheung |
Many international students and scholars in the U.S. hope to find employment in the U.S. that will allow them to gain the skills needed to secure permanent work. For most graduates, the H-1B non-immigrant visa category is a natural progression after Optional Practical Training (OPT) or employment as a contractor. This is because many international […]
New Massachusetts Report Promotes Inclusion of Internationally Trained Health Workers
Natalie Torres |
Born in Panama and educated in Brazil, Elisa Tristan-Cheever was the youngest graduate in her medical school class of 1989 and one of the first female hospital residents specializing in urology in Brazil. Over 11 years as a practicing surgeon in Brazil, she served patients in remote clinics and large hospitals. Fluent in three languages, […]
SIIP Convening 2022: Strengthening Partnerships and Programs
Kelly Acheson |
In late October, a diverse group of organizations working on behalf of internationally trained immigrants and refugees gathered in Washington, D.C. at the fifth annual Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP) convening. The convening was attended by nearly 100 participants representing 33 out of 40 total SIIP communities—including SIIP alumni and members of the current 2022-2023 […]
Building the New High Road: Report on U.S. Immigrants and Workforce Development
Immigrants and refugees play a crucial role in the U.S. workforce, especially in growth industries including tech and healthcare, yet they continue to be overrepresented in low-wage occupations. With a desire to learn more about the efforts to address this gap by supporting more inclusive employer practices, the WES Mariam Assefa Fund launched an open […]
Fund for Workforce Equity Selects Inaugural Grantees to Center Workers and Learners of Color
Today, the Fund for Workforce Equity, a new pooled investment fund led by Workforce Matters, announced 15 organizations that will each receive grants of up to $75,000 for initiatives that center the perspectives of workers and learners of color in designing or implementing workforce policies and programs. The grantees – workforce development organizations from across […]
An Open Door: How the WES Gateway Program Helped a Teacher Transition from Caracas to Colorado
WES Advisor |
Born and educated in Venezuela, Eduardo Verna Orenes always felt a calling to become a teacher. “I believe we can make a difference in this world via education,” he says. “With education we can promote future leaders that can generate sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.” After earning a bachelor’s degree in education, Eduardo spent […]
Tips for Funders Beginning Their Participatory Investing Journey
This piece is co-authored by Smitha Das and Katheryn Witt and is the result of a partnership between the WES Mariam Assefa Fund and Common Future. In March 2022, Common Future launched the Action Lab: Participatory Investing, a partnership with the WES Mariam Assefa Fund. The Action Lab is a 12-month initiative in which funders are learning […]
Historic Bipartisan Legislation Poised to Advance Workforce Inclusion
Fatima Sanz |
[An earlier version of this blogpost was published on October 10, 2022.] When Lubab Al-Quarishi was forced to flee Baghdad with her family in 2014, she had been a practicing, licensed pathologist for 18 years in Iraq. Since her resettlement in the United States, Lubab has worked in food service and as a pharmacy technician. […]
New Workforce Initiative Will Connect Immigrants and Refugees in Rural Areas with Employment Opportunities
BOSTON (OCT. 3, 2022) – Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national non-profit driving transformation in the American workforce and education systems, today announced an ambitious two-year initiative for economic advancement for immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers in rural areas. The Rural Immigrant Success Exchange (RISE), a partnership with Ascendium and the World Education Services […]
How Nevada Is Opening Career Pathways for Internationally Trained Immigrants and Refugees
Mikaela Santos |
Grecia Perez-Rodriguez understands firsthand the challenges faced by more than two million college-educated immigrants and refugees who are unemployed or underemployed in the United States, sixty percent of whom hold credentials earned in another country. Perez-Rodriguez’s law degree—earned at a top Mexican university—and experience practicing immigration law in Guadalajara were not recognized by occupational licensing […]