Deciding your next steps

• Personalised career advice by phone with career experts who will help you make a career plan and find work or training. Call 0800 601 301 to book.
• Career advice pop-ups with career experts in libraries, Connected sites and other public locations across New Zealand.
• This service is available from 19 October 2020 until 12 March 2021.

This service is for all New Zealanders who need advice to plan their career and find work or training. It is especially for people whose employment has been affected by COVID-19.

• Make a personalised plan that outlines your next steps into work or training.
• Understand your transferable skills and how you can use them in a new job.
• Get help with your CV and cover letters.

It takes people through the steps they need to do to find the right career for them based on their skills, interests and jobs in demand.

New Zealanders who want to plan or change their career.

• A guided career planning process.
• Worksheets and exercises to discover who you are and what you want.
• Information on how to explore and test career options
• Inspiring videos of people talking about their career path.
• Tips on figuring out your skills and jobs in demand.
• Study and training options.
• Advice on what you need to do if you want to change careers or study.

This resource helps you to identify your skills and work values, and how they can match-up with different careers. Additionally, this resource can help you with what to think about when balancing work and your life.

All students across New Zealand.

This resource helps you to match your skills with different careers, and to really consider what you want out of a job. It also links to several other helpful resources – where you can gain further insights.

How to change your career or study.

People in work or study who want to change their career or course.

• A worksheet to identify if you need to change your career or study.
• Information on who can help you with career advice.
• Options for retraining to change your career.

How to find out your skills from your work, study and life experience. Why it’s important to know your skills when you plan your career and apply for jobs.

School leavers or career changers planning their career, people looking for a job.

• Information on skills and how to identify all of your skills
• A skills worksheet
• A video explaining how to describe skills when looking for a job.

An interactive tool that suggests job ideas based on skills.

New Zealanders who want to plan or change their career.

• An interactive tool that can save your results.
• Job ideas based on your skills.
• Explore job ideas to find out entry information and what the job is really like.

Study or training options, and how to fund them, for people who have been made redundant.

People who have recently been made redundant and need to upskill or change careers to find work.

• An overview of study or training options suitable for adults retraining.
• Information on scholarships and fees free.
• Options for getting NCEA or recognition of prior learning.

Vocational Pathways help students see how their learning is valued in the workplace by aligning assessment standards that can count towards with six industries, and help them discover careers they’re truly passionate about!

Students studying NCEA level 2 and 3 across New Zealand in school, or enrolled in tertiary education organisations.

The Vocational Pathways help students contextualise their learning into the world of work, and gain knowledge of the skills and qualifications required by industry.

Students can see how their learning can be connecting to six industries including, Creative Industries, Primary Industries, Service Industries, Social and Community Services, Construction and Infrastructure, and Manufacturing and Technology.