Glossary

Career

A person’s progress through work and education throughout their lives.

Career management

Career management involves: understanding one’s own education, training and employment abilities and strengths; developing positive attitudes and motivation; being able to seek, obtain and use information, advice and guidance to make wise career-related decisions and act on these; and balancing work and life.

CV4Me

CV4Me is an interactive online tool that will create a CV for you based on the information you provide.

Group guidance

A group of clients working under the guidance of a Career Services consultant to increase their career management awareness and abilities. Guidance helps people understand their learning and career options and develop career decision-making skills.

Influencers

All individuals and groups who are influential in an individual’s life and who play a role in their career decision-making process.

Integrated self-help services

A connected set of online career information, advice, guidance and capability-building tools and products that are easily accessed and navigated by a client with minimal personal assistance.

Ka Hikitia

Māori Education Strategy that specifically refers to the development of career planning models for rangatahi (younger generation) and their whānau.

Labour market information

Data about the structure and workings of a labour market, and the various factors likely to influence it.

Migrant

Someone who has entered New Zealand on a temporary basis (as a visitor, worker or student) or through the New Zealand Residence Programme.

My Career Space

Electronic portfolio on our website where people can securely store their CVs, employment information and results from careers-related quizzes, etc.

NCEA

New Zealand’s National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA) are national qualifications for senior secondary school students.

Needs assessment

A set of criteria that assesses client needs and provides clients with the list of services they qualify for.

Online guidance

The range of career-related guidance offered through forums/discussion boards, wikis, online guidance tools and information.

Refugee

In general, a person recognised by our government under the Immigration Act 2009 as being of genuine refugee status (or, in general, a person in the immediate family of a refugee).

Stakeholders

Any organisation, person or group of people who have a personal or professional interest in any aspect of Career Services’ work and who need to be kept informed about it.

Tertiary education

Tertiary education comprises all involvement in post-school learning activities. It includes foundation education, such as adult literacy, certificates and diplomas, bachelor degrees, industry training and modern apprenticeships, adult and community education and postgraduate qualifications.

Te Tūkirunga

A whānau-focused careers guidance model for engaging and working with whānau in the career decision-making process.

Trade(s) training

A form of tertiary education that provides vocational education and training, which may include off-the-job and on-the-job workplace learning for industry trainees and modern apprentices resulting in an NZQA recognised qualification.

Web chat guidance

Direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat using tools such as instant messengers (e.g., our current solution of Bold Chat) or MiRC (internet relay chat). Online guidance will be provided through this medium.

Whānau decision-making – He hanga kaupapa a whānau

Assisting whānau to identify steps they can take to achieve the goals that will lead to successful outcomes for their whānau.

Young New Zealanders

All people living in New Zealand aged between 12 and 25.