Planning Your Career Pathway

Pathway Planning Program

Come in to see or email Mrs Green careers@freyberg.ac.nz if you want a blend of online and face to face support to begin identifying some of your career pathway options. We can use some of the tools below as well as discussion to create a personalized plan.


Want to investigate your career options? Here is a good place to start:

1. Self-awareness: Who am I? What pathways might suit me?

2. Finding future options. What’s out there for me? 

3. Deciding and taking action on future study

4. Now check out the tertiary education and employment sections in this site ​​​​​​​

1. Self-Awareness. Who am I?

Start to understand who you are, your interests, skills, qualities, culture, values and strengths. 

Try some of the questionaires below to see what pathways and careers might be a good fit for you.

  2. Finding future options. What’s out there for me?

​​​​​​​You can investigate some of the suggestions from the careers quizzes above, or suggestions and ideas from discussions with your whanau, friends and any ideas you already have yourself.

Below are a range of informative clips from the NZ TV series 'Just the Job'.

Click on an industry of interest.

Below are websites which provide information on industries and specific careers. 

3. Deciding and taking action on future study

Where to next?

Is further study at a Polytech (e.g.UCOL), University or a Youth Training course the best option for me?

The information in this section will help you navigate the options, the pros and cons, costs, etc.

When you have made some decisions you can check out the University and Polytech websites in the following section.