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What strategies enhance career development for newcomers?

While evidence is limited, certain alternative pathways to career development can help improve newcomers’ workforce integration.

  • Suggestive evidence shows that vocational training can contribute to workforce integration.
  • Suggestive evidence shows that scholastic- and career-focused afterschool programs may improve students’ self-reported preparedness to enter the workforce.
  • Moderately strong evidence shows that vocational training focused on goal setting does not improve workforce integration.
  • Suggestive evidence shows formal and informal language training contribute to workforce integration.

 

Some studies show that merging vocational training and language programs can increase the success rate of newcomers entering the workforce.

  • Two studies suggest that there may be a relationship between language training, social capital, and workforce integration.

Post TitleStrength of EvidenceType of StudyDirection of Evidence
The effect of a career development programme based on the Hope-Action Theory: Hope to Work for refugees in British ColumbiaModerateImpact evaluationNo impact
Young refugees in prevocational preparation classes: Who is moving on to the next step?SuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Predictors of Unemployment in RefugeesSuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Vocational Training for Adolescent English Language Learners in Newcomer Programs: Opportunities or Isolation?SuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Entry to hospitality careers for women and beyond: Immigrant training and feminist pedagogies and practicesSuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Teens in the Somali Diaspora: An Evaluative Program StudySuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Working toward aspirations: how higher education learning-working trajectories for refugees in the Netherlands support work-related capabilitiesSuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact
Academic Preparedness and Exposure to Agriculture and Natural Resources Majors and Careers for Migrant Farmworker College Students through Customized Classroom InstructionSuggestiveSuggestive evidencePositive impact

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