Amplio Recruiting

Staffing Great Companies with the Dependable Refugee Workforce

Over the past decade, there’s been a quiet shift happening in the U.S. job market. A notable decrease in skilled trade workers inhibits growth in the manufacturing, construction and hospitality industries, as Millennials make their way into the market and Baby Boomers retire.

In that same decade, over 700,000 individuals have been granted refuge on U.S. soil. Displaced by war and persecution, these legal residents are eager to establish employment to provide for their families and rebuild.

The labor shortage problem is growing, but we believe the answer to it has also been growing in cities across the United States: the refugee workforce.

We are recruiting, training and placing refugees who have resettled in the US with jobs in manufacturing, construction and hospitality industries. In 2017, we placed 600 people into jobs and plan to help 30,000 refugees access full-time employment by 2025. Our construction training program has trained over 200 men and women resettled in the US in the basics of electrical, carpentry, pipe-fitting and welding. We are in the process of developing an advanced manufacturing training program to best equip refuge communities to be best positioned for tech advances within manufacturing.

As a for-profit staffing company, employees are on our payroll for an average of 3 months. We covers workers comp and mitigate risk for our clients, the companies where our employees are working. After 3 months on our payroll, refugees will transition to permanent employment on the client payroll. We currently have 150 employees in 4 US locations. Our pulse on the American job market allows us to inform a strong training and upskilling program. We aim to be in 25 cities by 2025 and then expand globally to help change the world's perception of the refugee community and provide them dignified opportunities in their current situation that improves everyone's economic outlook. 

We are leveraging a common business model (staffing) to solve a massive challenge facing refugees across the globe. We can stand in any office around the world and make an economic case for why hiring refugees is the most strategic decision any company can make. 

We use technology to track applicants and manage clients. We hope to create a career mapping HCM to better serve our refugee employees long-term goals. We are developing an advanced manufacturing and AI training program now in which we will partner with clients to provide the refugee community with the ability to be best positioned for tech advances in manufacturing. 

-place 1000 refugees into full-time employment in 5 US locations

-upskill 200 refugees in advanced manufacturing training

-place 20,000 refugees into full-time employment in 20 US cities

We have a list of 40 potential cities we can expand into in the US that are currently populated by the refugee workforce. We will open up an office in those cities and partner with organizations already serving refugees to recruit the workforce. Through business development, we will win clients and serve them with excellence. 

We have 150 refugee employees currently on payroll. We have placed 600 into jobs since inception and aim to place another 600 in 2018 alone. 

-place 1000 employees into full time employment in next 12 months

-place 7,000 employees into FTE in next 3 years

We are strong in business development, marketing, and back office payroll & workers comp support. Our refugee training program and on-boarding are growing in prominence. We need to continue to improve our recruiting processes and overall operational excellence. That is our focus over the next 18 months before beginning to scale. 

We establish a contract with each client charging them a bill rate over and above the pay rate we will be paying the employee, which allows us to protect the employee wage and earn revenue. In 2017 we hit $2.2M in revenue and are on track for $5M in 2018. We netted $110K in profit in 2017 and have a sustainable model for opening new locations across the country. 

Solve gives us greater visibility and legitimacy to be partnered with a renown and respected program. The funding and potential for funding helps us move much quicker to scale and advanced training manufacturing programs. We also need support for impact research and data analysis and believe MIT/Solve connections could help us build that out effectively. 

Funding for growth capital. Increased training to position the refugee community for tech advances in marketplace. Monitoring & Evaluation/Impact metrics is a barrier we believe Solve can help us overcome.