Frame the labour-market case
Start in Labour Market Intelligence with the occupation lookup by NOC code. Review the provincial employment outlook from Job Bank, COPS projections, demand signals, and matched local supply. This step frames the labour-market case for exploring a credential area and helps identify the geography relevant to an institution's planning question.
See what already exists
Next, use semantic search to investigate what already exists. Search across the full corpus using occupation language, subject terms, target audiences, or related concepts. Hybrid retrieval combines full-text search with vector similarity, so relevant offerings can surface even when provider descriptions use different terminology. Apply filters for province, country, source platform, credential form, and delivery mode to focus the review.
Inspect the offerings
The Program Explorer turns search results into records that can be inspected individually. Each offering detail page captures the available description, credential type, audience, delivery format, schedule, duration, price information, topic tags, skills and competencies, and collection timestamp. Review these details to understand how other providers frame similar learning experiences, whom they address, and what format they use.
Compare a short list
Comparison is where a short list becomes useful evidence. Select offerings for side-by-side review and examine their credential form, delivery mode, duration, credit status, pricing approach, and stated audience. The aim is not to reproduce a market offering. It is to identify meaningful choices for an institutional proposal and make the evidence behind those choices visible.
Size the market context
Use Trends to size the direct-crawl market context. The view shows market composition by province, category, credential type, skill facets, price range, and price median. Platform catalogue entries are searchable during research but sit outside these statistics, and they carry field limitations worth understanding before you cite them. Both points are set out in Sources and Coverage.
Assemble the proposal
Bring the resulting evidence into the internal proposal: labour-market context, relevant supply, selected comparable offerings, and direct-crawl market composition. CredScape informs the case for a launch. The institution retains responsibility for deciding whether, where, and how to proceed.