OTEC’s Newcomer GPS: ‘Exploring an Integrated Digital Pathway to Settlement’ project.

The Newcomer GPS: Exploring an Integrated Pathway to Settlement is an OTEC-led research project that will test the integrated technology solution CareerAtlas within Service Provider Organizations (SPO) pre-arrival and hybrid settlement services in Canada. Newcomer GPS will evaluate CareerAtlas’s ability to enhance the decision-making and integration outcomes for newcomer job seekers through:

• Data analytics;

• Assessments;

• Career pathing;

• Job matching;

• The identification of opportunities for skills development;

• Direct engagement with newcomers, leveraging data and intelligence at the system level.

The primary outcomes of Newcomer GPS are to:

• Improve clients’ decision-making on settlement through access to destinations, increased employment opportunities, and increased awareness of individual skills.

• Improve SPOs’ delivery capacity to support newcomers into the labour market.

Newcomer GPS Objectives:

1. Support the settlement planning decisions of newcomers and enable clients to assess their skills and qualifications against real-time labour market information relative to employment opportunities in communities across Canada.

2. Provide a dedicated coaching interface that allows SPO staff to engage directly with the clients they are supporting, leveraging data and intelligence at the system level.