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The following links provide information and materials for teachers, students, and parents, about career planning, career services, tertiary education services, workplace learning and training, supported employment, careers education, career profiles, work trends, and career publications.
Career Planning
Career Services Pathfinder
The Pathfinders section of the Career Services website enables students to plan their future online. It requires students to register to complete an online questionnaire about themselves, explore career suggestions from Pathfinder, and plan their next steps. Along the way they can read articles on topics relevant to each stage of the career planning process. Pathfinder saves their progress so that they can come back anytime to continue.
http://www.careers.govt.nz/pathfinder/Default.asp?FunctionId=1100
Choices – Where it’s at
Choices is an interactive site which helps students to start thinking about future career possibilities. Includes links to other sites with details on further education, types of education, and career planning.
Edcentre Te Tomokanga – Tertiary Learners
The tertiary learners part of the EdCentre website provides information and advice about careers for students. The page links to information about jobs, planning a career, career opportunities, and pathways.
http://www.edcentre.govt.nz/education/sector.portal?_nfpb=trortlets/header/
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In-transit – Make a successful transition from school into work, training, or study
This website provides government agencies help, advice, and services designed to assist young people get into jobs, study, and training when they leave school. Includes information for career and job seekers, school leavers, skill seekers, study seekers, and related resources.
Learning and Career Plans
Learning and Career Plans (LCPs) are designed to support school students develop career management skills. LCPs are being trialled by Year 10 students through the Design Careers Pilot but could be adapted to suit other year groups. The Plan and professional notes in PDF or MS Word format are available for students and career educators in English and Te Reo.
Urge – Whakamanawa
Contributors to Urge include Ministries of Youth Affairs, Health and Education, Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand, Family Planning Association, New Zealand Law Society, Health Sponsorship Council and the Mental Health Foundation. The website is designed for young people and covers a range of issues including careers, employment, CVs, finding a job, further education, youth development, and an online directory of help services. This site should be used in the context of a supportive environment. Te Kete Ipurangi recommends that teachers view this website before using it with students.
What is the Career Kete?
The Career Kete is designed to support career education activities in secondary schools, with a focus on students who are developing a learning and career plan. The Career Kete is built on material adapted from Career Services resources, such as Plan-it, Take off to Tertiary, and Options Kit and Jobs by Interest. Includes information sheets, worksheets, and card sorts.
Career Services
Career Services
Career Services provides information on career services, advice, jobs, industries, work trends, courses and training, online tools, publications, and products available in New Zealand. Enquiries can be made regarding details on occupations, job descriptions, course information, training options and the labour market.
The Learning Shop
This website provides free information, advice and support on education and training opportunities in New Zealand. It is part of the Tertiary Education Strategy and has links to Gateway and Youth Transition Services.
Work and Income
This website provides information about the support and services available from Work and Income New Zealand including those available to people with disabilities. Work and Income New Zealand is a service of the Ministry of Social Development. Includes information on how to get a job, careers advice, financial assistance, information for employers, and links to related sites.
WorkSite
The New Zealand portal site, WorkSite, combines the resources of a number of government agencies to help people make decisions about work. It provides information about education and training, career advice and guidance, finding work, finding employees, and establishing and operating a business.
Supporting Parents
Team-Up: About Beyond School
This page from the Team-Up website provides information for parents to help guide teenagers in their transition from school to further education or employment. Includes information about tertiary study, careers, getting a job, financial support, special education, and support for new migrants.
Tertiary Education Services
New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Portal
This site combines the resources of a number of government and non-government agencies and organisations to provide both learners/students and Tertiary Education Organisation staff with access to comprehensive information and services relevant to tertiary education in New Zealand. The student area provides links to information about careers including advice, guidance, employment, and on the job training.
http://www.ted.govt.nz/ted/ted.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=omeFromHeader
Tertiary Education Commission
The Tertiary Education Commission’s role is implementing the tertiary education reforms in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and New Zealand Qualifications Authority. This site provides information on funding, education and training, career advice, and links to user groups and resources.
Workplace Learning and Training
Modern Apprenticeships
The Modern Apprenticeships programme enables young New Zealanders to gain nationally recognised industry qualifications while they work, and makes it easy for employers to upskill their workforce. This website provides information for young people wanting to earn while they learn and employers wanting to employ a young apprentice.
Skill New Zealand
The Skill New Zealand site provides information about workplace learning options, what the benefits are, and how to get involved. It includes programmes such as Gateway, resources, and publications related to training and employment.
Supported Employment
Association of Supported Employment in New Zealand (ASENZ)
ASENZ is an organisation aiming to improve and expand inclusive employment opportunities and services for all people with disability through the concept and practice of ‘supported employment’. The website provides information, networking facilities, research, policy advocacy, frequently asked questions, news, and contact details.
Careers and Transition Education Association (Aotearoa)
This association provides a resource network for careers and transition educators throughout New Zealand for the dissemination and exchange of ideas, courses, programmes, and information. It also acts as a vehicle for discussion with government departments and other bodies associated with school to work transition.
CCS Disability Action
CCS in New Zealand is a national organisation which provides support and services to people with physical disabilities. The website provides information about the services and contact points throughout New Zealand.
Emerge Supported Employment Trust
Emerge Supported Employment Trust is a charitable organisation which provides a range of professional supported employment and transition services for people with disabilities in Wellington. Includes information about services for job seekers and employers, career advice and planning, transition programmes, initiatives, personal stories of students who have been through the transition process, news, events, and contact details.
Mainstream Supported Employment Programme
This page from the State Services Commission website provides information about the Mainstream Supported Employment Programme. It is a two-year subsidised employment programme for people with significant disabilities. The programme is provided by the State Services Commission and aims to assist participants into meaningful, long-term employment within selected state sector organisations. Includes links to specific publications.
Transition – Journeys into Work and Lifelong Learning
This website offers support and advice for families, educators, employers, and service providers involved in guiding young people with special and diverse needs through their particular transition process. Includes information on financial support, stories, events, resources, contacts, and links to support service sites.
Wellington Institute of Technology – STAR (Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource) Programmes
This page from the Wellington Institute of Technology website provides information about the STAR, Secondary-Tertiary Alignment Resource. It is a government funded programme introducing senior college students to tertiary education, assisting them in their choice of vocation and transition between secondary and tertiary environments. Contains links to available courses.
Workbridge
Workbridge – Mahiri provides a professional employment service for people with all types of disabilities and injuries no matter what the disability or skill level. A person may have a disability from birth or as a result of an illness or injury. The website includes information for employers, jobseekers, support funds, and other links.
Workwise
Workwise Employment Agency helps people with mental illness to choose, get, and keep jobs. They provide a service for jobseekers and support for employers, helping them to link the right supports together to ensure people keep their jobs. The site includes case studies.
Youth Transition Services – Work and Income
This area of the Work and Income website provides information to assist young people as they transition from school to further education, training, work or other activities that contribute to their long term independence and wellbeing. Includes contact details for services across New Zealand and links to related sites.
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/get-assistance/
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Careers Education
Designing Careers Pilot
This Ministry of Education page has the evaluation of the Designing Careers Pilot – May 2006, part of the New Zealand government Youth Transistion Strategy aimed at assisting young people make more successful transistions from school to higher education, training, or work. This final report evaluates the implementation of the pilot and identifies the key features of effective delivery of whole-schools career education, planning, and reporting.
http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=11480&
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Professional Learning – Careers Education
This Te Kete Ipurangi Professional Learning web page has information about centrally-funded professional learning programmes and opportunities in careers education that are available to New Zealand schools, services, teachers, and educators during the current year. Has information on the Designing Careers Pilot programme.
Career Profiles
Career Services – Select a job summary
This page is part of the New Zealand government funded Career Services website. It contains several hundred job summaries which are illustrated with photos, charts, personal profiles, educational requirements, training, working conditions, salary ranges, and job prospects.
Taiohi
This website supports the Taiohi quarterly rangatahi magazine, the CD-ROM, and the Study Guide. Taiohi is part of the Whakaaro Mātauranga – Think Learning project aimed at raising expectations of Māori achievement amongst Māori, the community, and education providers. Includes career information, and profiles of people working in a range of occupations.
Techlink: Involve – Evolve – People in Technology
This collection of technology career profiles covers all technological areas, providing students with an insight into the range of career paths to which technology education can lead, and specific knowledge of the skills required in each featured career.
Career Publications
Taiohi
This website supports the Taiohi quarterly rangatahi magazine, the CD-ROM, and the Study Guide. Taiohi is part of the Whakaaro Mātauranga – Think Learning project aimed at raising expectations of Māori achievement amongst Māori, the community, and education providers. Includes career information, and profiles of people working in a range of occupations.
Tearaway.co.nz
This is the website of Tearaway Magazine: The Voice of New Zealand Youth, New Zealand’s youth magazine that has been published 12 times a year since 1986. The site contains a wide range of information and topics which can be accessed through topic channels. Includes features on entertainment, sports, worldwide news, careers, arts, ‘tech stuff’, people, ideas, ‘body stuff’ and research.
workINSIGHT
workINSIGHT is a six-monthly Department of Labour publication written for people who advise students, workers, and jobseekers about their study and career options. It is also a resource for anyone wanting to keep up-to-date with the latest job market news, research and trends. Copies of workINSIGHT can be downloaded from the website.
http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/workinsight/index.asp