Rangatahi Māori career planning workshops
Career Services offers career planning workshops around New Zealand for junior and senior Māori students.
Taiohi Tu, Taiohi Ora - career planning for senior Māori students
- Senior Māori students working on a career planning activity
Taiohi Tu, Taiohi Ora workshops are aimed at senior Māori students in Year 11, 12 and 13.
The aim of Taiohu Tu, Taiohi Ora workshop is to enable students to make informed decisions and positive choices about their futures. The workshop encourages students to be motivated to study and learn, and to be aware of the steps they need to take to achieve their goals.
The first stage of the workshop involves activities and discussions to help students widen their job options, and think about what is important in making career choices. Students examine their personal qualities, values and skills, and career interests. They also look at ways of overcoming barriers.
The next stage of the workshop focuses on future work and involves students learning how to use resources to gather information about jobs, labour market trends and training providers.
Te Whakamana Taitamariki - career awareness for junior Māori students
Career Services career consultants work with junior secondary school students in either workshops or group sessions to help them:
- learn how school subjects relate to jobs
- learn about the world of work
- discover their talents
- set goals for the future
- discover how to make good decisions
- gather new information.
Positive feedback from Māori students about the workshops
- "It kind of put me in the right direction as to where I want to go in life."
- "It just helped me with choosing subjects, gave me a key idea of how to get to that place by going to universities, etc."
- "Because there were things that I was not sure [of], they helped me to understand."
For more information about a Te Whakamana Taitamariki or Taiohi Tu, Taiohi Ora workshop in your area, contact Career Services.
