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TEO leadership webinars
TEC is offering a series of webinars to support TEO leadership with the transition from careers.govt.nz to Tahatū Career Navigator.
The webinars will be hosted by TEC’s Nina Ive, Deputy Chief Executive, Careers & Investment Design and will cover key aspects of the new website, including our data sources and how qualifications are displayed in Tahatū Career Navigator.
We are emailing TEOs with more details on the webinars and how to register. If you haven’t received your email or for any queries, please contact the TEC Customer Contact Team, phone 0800 601 301 or email customerservice@tec.govt.nz.
Our data
Tahatū Career Navigator is built around 3 core sets of data:
School subjects – using National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) achievement standards data from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
Career ideas – using data about jobs and pay from Stats NZ’s population census data, Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure and Inland Revenue data.
Qualifications and courses – using information TEOs provide to TEC.
For more information on where our data comes from, see:
Our data – Tahatū Career Navigator
Check back here in early October to see a video we’re creating to explain Tahatū Career Navigator’s key data concepts and what makes it unique.
Additional qualifications data
In late October 2025, additional qualifications-related data (previously referred to as Key Information for Students [KIS] on careers.govt.nz) will be added to Tahatū Career Navigator as follows:
Work-based training and qualifications above and below Level 5 (where available).
Expanding percentile range of study fees.
Information on the Government’s subsidy contribution to qualification study fees.
Post-study and training earnings at one, three and five years.
Destinations post-study/training, including overseas opportunities.
The following infosheets explain qualification clusters and the above additional qualification data in relation to provider-based and work-based provision. The new data gives greater insight into learner outcomes following study and training.
Important information for TEOs
As headlined earlier this year, there are other key changes coming with Tahatū Career Navigator that affect TEOs as detailed below.
Transitioning to a new KIS button and linking your qualifications to Tahatū Career Navigator
We will soon be providing a new KIS button along with a guide on how to link your organisation’s qualifications to Tahatū Career Navigator.
Updating your website links from careers.govt.nz to Tahatū Career Navigator
The careers.govt.nz website will be retired in early December 2025 now that Tahatū Career Navigator is available for all New Zealanders.
If you currently have links to careers.govt.nz on your website, these will continue to work for now, but after 3 December 2025 they will automatically redirect to Tahatū Career Navigator. To make sure your audiences continue to receive the most relevant careers information, we’ve prepared updated links to Tahatū Career Navigator that you can easily swap in.
What you need to do before 3 December 2025:
Check your website for any links to careers.govt.nz.
Replace them with the new Tahatū Career Navigator links we’ve provided below (Excel and PDF versions provided).
Please note: You can make these changes any time before 3 December 2025.
Redirecting careers.govt.nz pages to Tahatū Career Navigator (XLSX 14 KB)
Redirecting careers.govt.nz pages to Tahatū Career Navigator (PDF 118 KB)
Upcoming careers/student support team webinars
TEC is running a series of awareness and deep dive sessions specifically to provide TEOs’ careers and student support teams with a greater understanding of Tahatū Career Navigator. The awareness session is pitched as a high-level introductory overview, while the deep dive session goes into greater detail on how frontline staff actively supporting learners can use Tahatū Career Navigator in their career/study and training journey.
Topics covered include:
what Tahatū Career Navigator is and how it was developed
site features, navigation and accessibility
key data sets and sources
qualification clusters concept
career ideas and kaupapa Māori career ideas
what’s happening to careers.govt.nz and its content/resources
how to use Tahatū with your students.
You’ll be able to register on this page from the first week of October 2025 – check back here for details.
Tahatū Career Navigator marketing toolkit
TEC has prepared a marketing toolkit to help you share information about Tahatū Career Navigator. It includes a marketing leaflet, key messages and facts about Tahatū Career Navigator, social posts and internal content for sharing, and an overview video.
Tahatū Career Navigator marketing toolkit (PDF, 2 MB)
More information
For more information, or to advise us of new qualifications or changes to existing courses and qualifications, please contact the TEC Customer Contact Team, phone 0800 601 301 or email customerservice@tec.govt.nz.
