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Planning career education

Resources and support materials to help you build a successful careers programme in your school.

Get started in career education
Learn how teaching career management competencies helps students manage their life, learning and work. Find out how all teachers can contribute to careers education through a whole-school approach.
Career Education Benchmarks
The Career Education Benchmarks are a suite of self-review tools designed to raise the quality of career education in New Zealand. Learn how you can use these self-review tools to assess and improve your career education programme and services.
Write a career education plan
This step-by-step guide can help careers teams or career development specialists come up with a career education plan to help integrate career education throughout their schools.
Build careers teams
Learn more about the key responsibilities of a careers lead team, and how you can build one at your school.
Engaging with parents, community and business
Having the support and input of parents and the community for career education programmes is an important factor in their success. Get practical guidance on how you can ensure you successfully engage with your school's contributing communities – including the business community.
Understanding Career Education in Years 7 and 8 handbook
Download a guide outlining the most appropriate approaches to career education for students at Year 7 and 8.
Career Education in Practice handbook
Download a guide to help secondary schools manage and develop their career education programmes.
Career Education News
Sign up for our e-newsletter to get ideas, good practical examples and resources that you can use to bring career education into the classroom. We'll also keep you up to date with the latest research.