We conducted a series of workshops with newcomer youth and service providers to better understand newcomer youth employment experience in the GTA.
Employment is both an essential need and an incredible challenge for newcomer youth starting their lives in Canada. While newcomer youth possess many strengths and skills for employment, research shows that they also have a lower employment rate than youth born in Canada and earn less despite high levels of education.
With funding from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program (YESS), Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), JVS Toronto (JVS) and WoodGreen Community Services (WoodGreen) co-led a research project to better understand the needs of newcomer youth and the unique skills and experience they bring to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) workforce, as well as the barriers they encounter.
The partners spoke to thousands of youth to better understand their employment journey, as well as hundreds of employers, educators and other stakeholders. Blueprint helped facilitate sessions with newcomer youth from across the GTA to better understand the unique challenges and opportunities they face in the labour market and to co-design recommendations for what can be done to ensure all newcomer youth are able to realize their full potential.
In the last phase of this research initiative, Blueprint was asked to carry out a series of workshops with newcomer youth and service providers to validate research findings and generate recommendations to strengthen employment interventions for newcomer youth in the GTA.
We hosted three workshops, with a total of 51 youth participants from all over the GTA and 11 service providers across seven different organizations. Each of these workshops focused on recommendations connected to a specific part of the employment journey:
Read our full report to learn more or view the report summary here.
Taken together, the research points to a lack of programs and services for newcomer youth that span their employment journeys and recognize their diverse experiences and needs. In our workshops with newcomer youth, we learned what skills have helped them succeed in the workforce as well as common barriers or training needed.
Skills newcomer youth bring to the workplace:
Challenges & Barriers:
Below are direct quotes from participants in the workshop.
Read TRIEC’s consolidated report which highlights the data and insights gathered by all the project partners, and offers actionable recommendations to foster better employment outcomes for newcomer youth in the GTA: https://triec.ca/research-and-insights/yess/
Employment is both an essential need and an incredible challenge for newcomer youth starting their lives in Canada. While newcomer youth possess many strengths and skills for employment, research shows that they also have a lower employment rate than youth born in Canada and earn less despite high levels of education.
With funding from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program (YESS), Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), JVS Toronto (JVS) and WoodGreen Community Services (WoodGreen) co-led a research project to better understand the needs of newcomer youth and the unique skills and experience they bring to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) workforce, as well as the barriers they encounter.
The partners spoke to thousands of youth to better understand their employment journey, as well as hundreds of employers, educators and other stakeholders. Blueprint helped facilitate sessions with newcomer youth from across the GTA to better understand the unique challenges and opportunities they face in the labour market and to co-design recommendations for what can be done to ensure all newcomer youth are able to realize their full potential.
In the last phase of this research initiative, Blueprint was asked to carry out a series of workshops with newcomer youth and service providers to validate research findings and generate recommendations to strengthen employment interventions for newcomer youth in the GTA.
We hosted three workshops, with a total of 51 youth participants from all over the GTA and 11 service providers across seven different organizations. Each of these workshops focused on recommendations connected to a specific part of the employment journey:
Read our full report to learn more or view the report summary here.
Taken together, the research points to a lack of programs and services for newcomer youth that span their employment journeys and recognize their diverse experiences and needs. In our workshops with newcomer youth, we learned what skills have helped them succeed in the workforce as well as common barriers or training needed.
Skills newcomer youth bring to the workplace:
Challenges & Barriers:
Below are direct quotes from participants in the workshop.
Read TRIEC’s consolidated report which highlights the data and insights gathered by all the project partners, and offers actionable recommendations to foster better employment outcomes for newcomer youth in the GTA: https://triec.ca/research-and-insights/yess/
The Responsive Career Pathways Research Brief consolidates key findings from our past 9 research papers in partnership with the Future Skills Centre. In this brief, we outline key innovation challenges and opportunities for career guidance services in Canada, and highlight common barriers to accessing these services.
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Career guidance systems could be designed with a whole-of-person lens. This paper considers promising practices in breaking down barriers to career guidance for Canadians.
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Adult learners have to navigate an increasingly diverse, fragmented and complex education and training marketplace. This paper assesses options helping Canadian learners navigate their education and learning choices.
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The path to accessing career guidance is challenging for racialized people, women and newcomers to Canada. This paper offers opportunities to strengthen our publicly-funded employment systems to effectively address labour market inequity.
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Employers are critical in establishing more responsive career pathways for Canadians. This paper outlines some of the challenges and opportunities employers are facing related to the future of work and skills.
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Career development practitioners have a critical role to play in helping Canadians prepare for the future of work. This paper tackles questions about the role of career development practitioners and the evolution of their practice.
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Offering forward-looking, customized, high-quality and accessible career guidance to a wide range of Canadians is possible. This paper identifies behavioural and motivational barriers to accessing career guidance and offers a promising path ahead.
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The role and use of technologies that help individuals and career practitioners navigate career pathways are rapidly evolving. This paper outlines potential ways responsive career pathways can be enabled by technology.
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This document provides consistent definitions for the terms that are applied across all of the research papers for the Responsive Career Pathways initiative.
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This paper offers considerations for strengthening and aligning our careers and employment systems to better serve Canadians across their career trajectory.
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Finding ways to make labour market information accessible and useful for service providers and individuals is key for creating more responsive career pathways.
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