Reply To: What do people or employers never ask about your refugee experience, and that you hope people would understand better?

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People ask for UK experience, but how are you going to get UK experience when you are not given the opportunity? Secondly, I find, many times, you have to start all over again. Everything you have done for the last 20/25 years, somebody sees it as trash. When you come to the UK, they expect you to have a professional qualification from the UK to validate your skills. However, that doesn’t not always mean that you will be given a chance. You have to get a job that is below your level. When companies say they want to give Refugees an opportunity, it is always low-level opportunities. They are also still profiling refugees, covert and overt discrimination. Sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit. Wanting opportunities to have hands on experience, most places don’t have that doorway to establish their skills because without those, you lack the confidence to be in that marketplace. There are issues around organisations wanting to hirer other people. Fluency in English. An employer in the past said I can't have a job because I have an accent.​