Niew Labs
A group of creative and passionate engineers and developers, graduates of UofT, using open data to help Canadian youths. For this CODE 2015 hackathon, we use the open data to help Canadian youth explore their future career paths.
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March 6, 2015: We made it to the Top 15! Top 5 in our Youth category and now we need your votes. If you found our app useful, please click on the red VOTE button on your left.
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Career Path by Niew Labs · http://niewlabs.github.io/careerPath/#/home
Our application is aimed at helping Canadian youth discover, research and choose future career paths. It allows them to search by various professions and view visualizations of projected employment statistics and job prospects for the chosen field, based on data from Employment and Social Development Canada. It also ties these job titles to actual opportunities that are updated real-time by GlassDoor.
Our app makes it easy for youths to quickly explore and search across 40,000 job titles and their demands over the next decade. More importantly, these job titles are tied to actual opportunities that are updated real-time by GlassDoor.
Another important feature is that the app lists the number of current postings per occupation, which will help young people make decisions about their future careers. Through our app, they can discover what kind of education, skills, and requirements they need to pursue their future careers.
These are some of the features we plan to implement after the contest:
1) Provide further breakdown of current tools and skill set trends for each profession. E.g. "ruby" and "html5" for the "Software Engineer" occupation.
2) List influencers and thought leaders in each profession as role models for youth. E.g. Neil Degrasse Tyson in astrophysics.
3) Quizzes to help high school students pick their career path based on their skills and interests.
4) Assist youth job seekers by providing job postings based on geography and expected income.
In addition to Open Data sets we used following data resources:
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/Occupations.aspx?val=2
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/Concordance.aspx
http://www.glassdoor.com/api/jobsApiActions.htm
After the contest, we plan to use these data sets to further improve the app:
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/fad96f80-ba35-4f2d-8276-ed4a33386b49
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1150005&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=35&tabMode=dataTable&csid=#customizeTab
http://www23.hrsdc.gc.ca/[email protected]
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