How schools use Career Central

As a differentiated careers programme

Career Central offers schools the ability to differentiate the programme for different year levels. This means that year 9’s will see pages/modules relevant to them and as they move through to year 13 more and more pages can become visible.

Schools also have the ability to customise what appears on each page which not only allows for differentiation based on age but also for taylored customisation to suit your school culture.

Each year students update the information they have already added to their profiles and new pages become visible to them.

To empower school-wide career education

Career Central empowers non-careers staff to have career discussions with students. The list below shows some of the times schools engage with Career Central.

  • Social Studies (Year 9 & 10)

  • English & Health Class

  • Group / Form / Whanau Time

  • Study Periods

  • Year 12 / 13 Camp

  • Career Counselling

  • Academic Mentoring / Conferencing

  • Activity Days for Juniors.

To support continuity of careers education

When staff change at a school it is easy for information and knowledge to become lost. Career Central provides a place for all career related information to be stored. This means new staff can pick up where the previous person left off.

Student career profiles provide information about students interest and intentions and how they have changed over the years. Having this information (along with up to date job and course information via our Careers NZ and Study Spy integration) at your fingertips makes it easier to build a relationship with students and means you have a starting point for career and academic discussions.

Students

Complete modules of self-reflection:

  • Identify personal qualities, interests, careers values and skills.

  • Indicate intentions for the following year, including subjects they are considering or tertiary education.

  • Indicate interest in other programs including gateway, taster courses, and trade academies.

  • Set personal, education and careers goals.

Explore future opportunities and resources

  • Careers events

  • Relevant notices

  • Useful websites

  • Browse, research, and store jobs that they think will suit them

  • Create a CV and view their interview notes

View your child’s interview notes and responses from completed modules. This includes (personal qualities, interests, careers values and skills; subjects they are considering or tertiary education plans; interest in gateway, taster courses, and trade academies; and their personal, education and careers goals.

Help your child to complete Career Central modules at home. Parents have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the workforce, and a deep understanding of their children. This makes their role in career planning extremely valuable and Career Central’s 24/7 anytime access, from anywhere makes the involvement easy and effective. 

Contact the careers department. If parents need clarification on job requirements, interview notes, or want to book an appointment to meet the Careers Department, this is all possible from Career Central’s parent portal.

Career Educators

Careers Advisors login to the staff dashboard on Career Central and can manage student pathways based on student responses in completed modules. With the features below, Careers Advisors can easily deliver personalised, school-wide career planning.

  1. View each student’s responses from completed modules.

  2. Record interview notes (access all your student interview notes in one place – your staff dashboard).

  3. Generate data summaries in an instant via stats and lists. Create tailored reports with a few quick clicks.

  4. Contact students. Message or text individuals and groups of students via email and/or text. Search for and view similar groups of students to enable targeted communication and identify group commonalities.

  5. Advertise opportunities and resources (like website links, career days, university open days and internships).

  6. Assign tasks to students and stay in touch with past students.

Parents and Caregivers

Parents and caregivers log in to the parent portal and are empowered to have career conversations so career planning can take place at home.

Teachers

The features that non-careers staff can access depends on the access level given to them by the careers advisor.

Record and view student interview notes in your student’s profile (this keeps both non-careers staff and career advisors in the loop with student interests and career plans).

View student responses from completed modules (use for academic and career conferencing from the staff dashboard).

Search for and view similar groups of students (this enables targeted, personalised communication, and allows you to easily identify group patterns and commonalities). For example search for all Year 12 students that are interested in a trades career.