Newcomer GPS: Exploring an Integrated Digital Pathway to Settlement
Newcomers to Canada face settlement challenges ranging from language to employment barriers.
Enter: CareerAtlas Newcomer Pathways, OTEC’s AI-driven platform configured to help newcomer jobseekers identify skills transferable to Canadian labour markets and discover relevant career training in Canada.
Through OTEC’s innovative research project, Newcomer GPS: Exploring an Integrated Digital Pathway to Settlement, OTEC partnered with over 25 service provider organizations (SPOs) to offer free access to CareerAtlas for 4,000+ newcomers to Canada. Funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), this research project aimed to understand the impact of technology to affect decision-making of newcomers in their journey to settle in Canada.
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The Newcomer GPS Research project was an IRCC-funded initiative testing the integration of CareerAtlas with service provider organizations in the settlement sector. Through this project, OTEC created a newcomer-specific configuration of the technology that serves pre-arrival and post-arrival newcomers: CareerAtlas Newcomer Pathways. This configuration of this CareerAtlas digital journey has provided an ideal pathways for newcomers within the Settlement services sector and can now be applied to other projects across other sectors in Canada.
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Related Reports
Workforce Development Innovation
Newcomer GPS: Exploring an Integrated Digital Pathway to Settlement — Mid-Project Evaluation Report
This evaluation report is a snapshot of the IRCC SDI project, Newcomer GPS, outlining a framework for the technology solution, CareerAtlas, and the insights aligning the results, including the first and second phase of the project.
Workforce Development Innovation
Newcomer GPS: Exploring an Integrated Digital Pathway to Settlement – Early Learnings Report
This Learning Report consolidates insights from the early stages of the project’s implementation and provides a snapshot of the Canadian newcomer settlement landscape.
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