What is Navigar?
Navigar is a smart online skills development planning tool that’s free to PIPSC members.
Whether you want to advance in your current career or pivot to a new profession, Navigar provides the information you need, and a skills development plan tailored to your goals.
With data-backed industry insights into available careers and the future of work, plus knowledge of more than 40,000 available resources: courses, books, audiobooks etc. Navigar helps you plan and advocate for your career development.
What can I do with Navigar?
You can use Navigar to plan your career development in several ways:
- Explore and discover career options relevant to your current skill sets, as well as other career paths.
- Learn about different skill sets and how to up-level a specific skill.
- Gain knowledge about the future of work and how to prepare for coming changes. For example, Navigar publishes data-based insights about how trends such as automation and AI will affect specific jobs and create new jobs.
- Identify and visualize the skills and knowledge gaps between where you are in your career today and where you want to go next.
- Know what courses and training will help you close any skill gaps on your identified career path.
- Prepare a skills development plan that can be shared with your employer.
Is Navigar really free?
Yes, Navigar’s planning features and insights are free to PIPSC members, thanks to funding from the Future Skills Center (FSC). FSC is a federal initiative to fund innovation projects to strengthen access to high-quality career advice, skill building resources, and learning opportunities.
Training courses recommended by Navigar are offered separately by training partners. Training partners may offer the courses free (for example, the Canadian School of Public Service (CSPS)), or may provide courses for a per-course fee or a subscription-based rate (for example, Percipio).
Where does Navigar get information about careers, skills, and courses?
Navigar’s powerful engine gathers, analyzes, and consolidates data from several sources, including:
- Labour market trends from Canadian census data.
- Global workforce trends and predictive analysis from Faethm.
- Job-skill requirements for specific roles, also from Faethm.
- PIPSC’s deep knowledge of the Canadian public sector workplace based on its 70,000 members.
- Information about tens of thousands of courses from learning providers, such as Percipio, the Canadian School of Public Service (CSPS), and others.
- Secondary research from a variety of reputable sources, including the World Economic Forum, International Labour Organization, and more.
What can I do with my Navigar learning plan?
Your Navigar learning plan is useful in several ways, including:
- Shows gaps between the skills you have the skills you’ll need.
- Identifies the training and courses that can close the gaps.
- Provides clarity about what steps to take to get from where you are in your career to where you want to be.
- Can be shared with your employer to have focused and productive conversations about your career development.
Can I use Navigar even if I don’t register for any training?
Yes, Navigar is a career planning tool that you can use to do several things, such as:
- Explore and discover career options relevant to your current skill sets and jobs on other career paths.
- Learn about different skill sets and how to up-level a specific skill.
- Gain knowledge about the future of work and how to prepare for coming changes. For example, Navigar publishes data-based insights about how trends such as automation and AI will affect specific jobs and create new jobs.
- Identify and visualize the skills and gaps between where you are in your career today and where you want to go next.
- Know what courses and training will help you close any skill gaps on your identified career path.
- Prepare a skills development plan that can be shared with your employer.
