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Learner’s Guide
Learning Purpose & Outcomes
In this course you will learn how to plan a career pathway.
When you have finished this course you will be able to:
• identify and describe a personal career pathway
• show your knowledge of career development (including career management strategies, and
constraints)
• produce a plan to follow a career pathway which:
o includes objectives and indicators
o covers a period of at least 24 months.
A glossary has been included at the end of this guide to help you understand new terms and other
words that may be difficult. Words that are in the glossary have been highlighted in the text.
Additional
Resources
Careers NZ website
The Careers New Zealand website has many helpful resources on career pathways. Go to the
following website for more information: www.careers.govt.nz
Contents
Glossary 46
LESSON 1:
Describing a personal
career pathway
Learning Objectives
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to describe a A space has been left
personal career pathway. on the right of every
page for you to make
You will also be able to describe how each of the following is notes about what you
suitable and/or relevant to a specific career pathway. are learning.
Personal qualities
Current and future:
o skills
o qualifications
o areas of knowledge.
Education
Study,
qualifications
Career
pathway
Learning
Work Knowledge
Career, gained eg
type of work school,
mentoring, work
Pathway
Career pathway Education Learning Work
Hairdresser NZ Certificate in Apprenticeship, Cutting, colouring and
Hairdressing (Salon assisting in salon. styling customers’ hair.
Support).
Builder/carpenter NZ Certificate in Apprenticeship in Building houses and
Carpentry (Level 4) building business other structures.
Café worker Food hygiene and Full training done on Preparing and serving
preparation, barista the job. food and beverages;
courses. cleaning and
maintaining kitchen/
café hygiene.
Try it for In this activity you will use the CareersNZ website (or your
Yourself teacher will provide you with the relevant information).
Instructions
1. Find two careers that interest you.
2. What are the links between education, learning and work for each career?
Introducing Joe
Joe wants wants to become a qualified chef.
He has finished Year 12 at school and plans to start working full-
time in a local café. After a couple of years, Joe would like to start an
apprenticeship training as a chef in a city restaurant.
Throughout this course, you will use the example of Joe to practise the
skills needed to plan a career pathway.
In Appendix A of this guide there is more information about Joe, and links to websites
relevant to his career pathway. You will use this information to answer activity questions in
this guide.
Try it for Use the information about Joe (Appendix A: About Joe),
Yourself and the CareersNZ website to complete this activity.
Personal
Skills
qualities
Personal
career
pathway
(things to
consider)
Areas of
Qualifications
knowledge
Personal qualities
Interests Strengths
Personal
qualities
Attitude Values
Interests
Interests are what we enjoy doing or learning about. They can
include the things that motivate us, our hobbies, and favourite
subjects at school.
Computers and
Sports technology
Interests
Helping (examples) Travel
people
Inventing
Healthy
lifestyle
Gardening
Choosing a career pathway that matches your interests will help you
to stay committed to your career goal, and enjoy the work you do.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
1. Brainstorm all the interests that Joe has, and write them in the space below.
2. Which of these interests could be useful for Joe’s career pathway? Why?
Strengths
Our strengths are the things we do best. These are the abilities and
talents we have that we are most confident about.
A strength might set us apart from other people and make us unique.
For example, a person may be a good problem solver. This means that
they are able to think about complex issues and solve difficult problems.
Team player
Creative
Problem
solver Leader
Strengths
(examples)
Organised
Compassionate
Persistent
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
1. Brainstorm all the strengths that Joe has, and write them in the space below.
2. How could each of these strengths be useful for Joe’s career pathway? Why?
Values
Most people have a value system that influences the decisions that
they make. Values are the things in our lives that are important to us.
This includes our beliefs about what is true and right for us.
For example, a person may value honesty. This means that honesty
is a very important personal quality that they have, and expect to
see in others.
Our
“Earning lots of values “It’s important to
money gives us be organised”
more freedom”
A career pathway that supports your values will help you to gain
meaning and fulfilment from the work you do.
Attitude
Your attitude is your way of thinking about people or a situation. It
involves the way you feel about something, and can be connected
with your values and beliefs.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
What attitudes/values does Joe have? How do these match Joe’s career pathway?
Skills
Your skills are the things that you are able to do that are a necessary
part of your job. Skills are usually gained through training or
experience in the workplace, or while studying.
When you select a career pathway, it is important that you have, or
intend to get, relevant skills.
Gaining the skills you don’t have yet is one of the steps in your
career pathway.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
1. Name some skills that Joe has which relate to his career pathway. Explain how
these skills are relevant to Joe’s career pathway.
2. Name a skill that Joe wants to have, in order to become a chef. Why is this skill
necessary? How could he gain this skill?
Qualifications
When someone officially completes a course or programme of
study, they gain a qualification.
A qualification shows that someone has met a specific set of
education and training requirements. It shows that they have
knowledge and/or skills in a specific area of study or work.
NCEA Certificates
(Levels 1,
2, or 3)
Types of
qualifications
Bachelor Diplomas
degrees
Masters
degrees
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
1. What qualification does Joe currently have which is relevant to his career
pathway? Why is the qualification relevant?
2. What other qualifications will Joe need to get as part of his career pathway? Why
are these qualifications relevant? How could he gain these qualifications?
Areas of knowledge
Areas of knowledge relevant to a career pathway may come from a
person’s education, training, work or life experience.
This may include knowing how a particular industry, process or
system works.
A person may already have this knowledge, or they may need to
gain it to follow their career pathway.
Knowledge is different to qualifications because the way you gained
the knowledge may not have been by studying.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
1. What is a relevant area of knowledge that Joe already has? How is this relevant to
his career pathway?
2. What does Joe still need to learn about to become a chef? Why does he need to
know this? How could he learn about this?
LESSON 2:
Managing career
development
Learning Objectives
When you have finished this lesson you will be able to show your
knowledge of career development.
To do this, you will be able to describe how:
strategies can be used to manage career development
constraints can impact on career development.
Strategies to manage
career development
Acquiring skills,
Building
qualifications
supportive
and/or expert
networks
knowledge
Strategies
Professional Pathway
development exploration
Pathway exploration
Exploring a career pathway involves finding out about all the steps
which make up that pathway. By using this strategy, you will be able
to gain a clear understanding of what you need to do to achieve
your career goal. You will also gain a better understanding of what
type of work you will be doing once you achieve your career goal.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Joe talks about two different options for combining work, education and learning.
Describe each of these options.
Explain how using the strategy of pathway exploration could help Joe manage his
career development.
Professional development
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Does Joe’s career pathway give him the opportunity for professional development? Explain.
Explain how using the strategy of professional development could help Joe manage his
career development.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
t m us t I do to ga in th e necessary skills,
Wha
rt knowledge?
qualifications and/or expe
Farm Plus
Tractor Skills and Safety course
• Check that a tractor is safe to drive
• Drive a tractor safely
• Attach and detach farm implements
• Safely drive a tractor with attached implements
Entry requirements
To become a hairdresser you need to complete an apprenticeship
and gain a New Zealand Certificate in Hairdressing – Professional
Stylist (Level 4).
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Time
Cost
required
Personal
relationships
Constraints Location
Evidence of Access to
achievement information
Location
Impact Examples
Financial • Cost of moving to a new location.
• Living costs in new location, eg paying rent vs. living with family.
• Extra cost of travelling to a distant location, eg using public transport to
travel long distances across a city.
• Extra cost of owning/running a car, eg needed to get to and from your
place of study/training.
Time • Time taken for commuting to place of study/work could make it more
difficult to meet related commitments, eg getting to work on time.
• Could take longer to achieve your career goal, eg if you must work part-
time, or stay where you are and save money before starting your studies.
Opportunity • Limited opportunity for where to study (you may not be able to go to your
first choice of study/training organisation because it is too far away).
• Limited or no opportunity for work placements and/or apprenticeships in
the place where you live.
Access to relevant • For work placements and/or apprenticeships, you will probably need
work opportunities to move to the area where these workplaces are located, or organise
transport (eg car pool, public transport, buy own car).
• Try to find work locally that is similar and will give you some of the
skills related to your chosen career.
Financial • Set aside some time to work and save money which can cover the
constraints extra cost of moving to, and living in a new location.
• Find out whether you are eligible for a student allowance to cover
exra living costs involved in moving away from home.
• Many people work part-time to cover living costs while they are
studying/training.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Access to information
Impact Examples
Financial • Not knowing enough about your eligibility for allowances, scholarships
and study grants - increases the cost of study.
• Not having enough information about the expenses involved in studying/
training at different learning institutes - you may choose a more expensive
option, when cheaper ones are available.
Time • Not knowing about, and missing enrolment deadlines for study/training
and not getting a place on the course (delaying career development).
• Not having enough information about the quickest career pathway, taking
longer than you need to achieve your career goal.
Opportunity • Not having enough information about which private and industry training
organisations are most respected by employers.
• Not knowing enough about organisations which offer internships,
apprenticeships, positions for newly qualified people - could limit your
ability to find relevant work.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Evidence of achievement
Evidence of achievement
• Education and training records and certificates, eg NCEA
certificate, NZQA Record of Achievement.
• Testimonials and references, eg written about you by a teacher
or employer.
• Awards and certificates from work and community organisations,
eg customer service award from work.
• Record of something you have created, eg a fashion blog,
kitchen shelves.
For people starting out on their career pathway, there may not be a
lot of evidence of relevant achievement yet. They may not have had
the required training or work experience.
There may also be evidence ‘out there’ but the person hasn’t gathered
it yet. For example, a person may have worked part-time after school
but may need to ask their employer for a reference as evidence of this.
Impact Examples
Opportunity
• Not having the required evidence of achievement could result in missed
opportunities for study, training or work.
Impact Examples
Education and • Contact your education or training provider to ask for a copy of your
training records and records.
certificates • Go to the NZQA website, and order a Record of Achievement (a fee
may be charged).
Testimonials and • Contact people in authority who know you and who can describe
references your qualities and skills. Ask if they would be prepared to write a
reference or testimonial for you. Explain to them why you need this
evidence, and who you will be showing it to (eg potential employers,
training organisations).
Awards and • If you don’t have the certificate already, contact the organisation to
certificates from ask for a copy.
work or community
organisations
You may also need to include steps in your career pathway, to help
you produce some evidence of achievement.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
What evidence of achievement does Joe need to help with his career development?
Explain how not having this evidence could impact on Joe’s career development.
Personal relationships
Impact Examples
Financial • If family members rely on you for financial support, you may not be able to
afford to study full-time due to lack of regular or enough income.
• Financial commitments related to your personal relationships may limit the
types of courses you can enrol in (some courses may have fees which are
unaffordable).
Time • The times at which you must be available for family members might clash
with the times you are expected to be attending study/training, work
placements, or other work.
• If you have to study/train part-time due to personal relationship
commitments, it will take you longer to achieve your career goal.
Opportunity • You may not be able to move to a location for work and study
opportunities due to family commitments in the place where you live.
• Your personal relationship commitments may mean you miss out on
career opportunities due to time constraints.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Describe a personal relationship Joe has which may impact on his career development.
Explain how this could impact on Joe’s career development.
LESSON 3:
Producing a plan to
follow a career pathway
Learning Objectives
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to produce a
plan to follow a career pathway.
This includes identifying and describing:
objectives that will contribute to a career pathway
indicators of progress on the career pathway.
You will also have the opportunity to produce a career pathway plan
which is written for a minimum timeframe of 24 months.
Achievements
Skills
Types of
qualifications Specialised
knowledge
Experience
Qualifications
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Summarise the most important skills, qualifications, knowledge and/or experience that
Joe must gain to achieve his career goal.
The next step is to use the information from your summary to set Objectives could include:
career objectives.
• Qualifications
When you set objectives, include specific information to show how • Specialised knowledge
they contribute to your career pathway. • Skills
To ensure your plan covers all of the important goals you need to • Experience
achieve, make sure you include at least three objectives. • Achievements
• Other objectives specific
to your career pathway
“My main career objectives involve
getting the right qualifications, and I need
to do an apprenticeship. It’s going to take
me a few years to achieve some of these
objectives.”
Feb - July 2019 New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3)
(Full-time training)
*Aug 2019 - Aug New Zealand Certificate in Plumbing and Gasfitting (Level 4)
2022
*Start date depends on finding a business that will take me on as an
apprentice.
Try it for Use the information listed below to complete this exercise.
Yourself • Appendix A: About Joe
Set at least three career objectives for Joe. Explain how each objective will
contribute to Joe’s career pathway.
Describe indicators of progress that Joe could use to make sure his objectives are
being met. Explain how each indicator will contribute to Joe’s career pathway.
What’s next?
As you work through your career pathway plan, you may need
to add new objectives and indicators. This will depend on
whether or not you have to take alternative steps.
You can use your career pathway plan as a ‘road map’. It can
help you to your objectives in mind, and make sure that you
take action to achieve these.
Glossary
career The type of work that someone does. Usually involves one specific job or
area of work, eg hairdressing, carpentry, nursing.
career The progress made along a planned career pathway.
development
CareersNZ New Zealand website with information on hundreds of different careers
and the pathways to achieve them.
career pathway The steps and processes involved in achieving a career goal. Relates
to the link between education, learning and work required to reach that
goal.
career pathway Plan which outlines the important actions that must be taken to achieve a
plan career goal.
constraint Something which limits or interrupts.
evidence Proof of something.
indicator (in career An outcome that results from achieving an objective in a career plan.
plan) A measure of the progress made along a career pathway.
location Where something is geographically, eg where someone lives.
mentor One person who can guide and motivate someone along that person’s
career pathway.
objective (of career A goal which contributes to a career pathway. Must be met in order to
plan) achieve the overall career goal.
pathway The action of finding out about all the steps which make up a career
exploration pathway.
professional Specific study or training related to a job (often organised and paid for by
development the employer).
strategy, strategies Plan of action, usually involves steps which a person must carry out.
summarise Briefly stating the most important points of a piece of information.
supportive A group of people who can help someone along their career pathway.
networks
timeframe When the actions needed to achieve the objective start and finish.
Appendix A:
About Joe
Hi, my name is Joe Smith, and my career goal is to become a qualified chef.
I have just finished Year 12, and I plan to get a full-time job at a café as my first step. I am
applying for a job as a café assistant at the Highway Café Company. If I get the job, I want to
stay there for a couple of years. My aim is to get great work experience there, and save money
so I can move to the city to work as an apprentice chef.
My goal is to qualify with a Service IQ NZ Apprenticeship in Cookery. This will mean working
as an apprentice chef at a restaurant and also doing training courses at Service IQ. All up, the
apprenticeship should take about three years to complete.
As an alternative, I could do a New Zealand Certificate in Catering Services (Levels 3 and 4) as
a full-time student with a training provider. This would take about 18 months to complete. After
that I could find work as an entry-level chef. It is my second choice because it won’t give me
as much work experience as being an apprentice would. Also, I might miss out on professional
development courses, such as in-house training that some restaurants provide, eg extra
customer service training.
My careers counsellor at school has been helping me to find information about different work
and training options that can lead to being a qualified chef.
CareersNZ (search chef) ServiceIQ (search apprenticeships)
https://www.careers.govt.nz/ http://www.serviceiq.org.nz/
• Want to learn all there is to know about food - food from different
cultures, different preparation and cooking methods, new recipes.
• Enjoy cooking for friends and family and making up my own
Who I am as a recipes. (I won a prize for a recipe that I invented.)
person
• Good leader and team worker - I was a Year 12 school leader, and
captain of my sports team. I work best as part of a team.
• I am a great communicator and love to share my ideas, as well as
listen to others’ points of view.
• Quad bike riding - I passed a basic quad bike safety training course.
What are my other
• Growing my own fruit and vegetables.
interests?
• Socialising with my friends, and going to the movies.
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