Tahatū Career Navigator
Tahatū Career Navigator
Tahatū Career Navigator, the Tertiary Education Commission’s (TEC’s) new career planning website, is now available for all New Zealanders following its successful rollout to all secondary schools in June.
Tahatū Career Navigator, the Tertiary Education Commission’s (TEC’s) new career planning website, is now available for all New Zealanders following its successful rollout to all secondary schools in June.
Tahatū Career Navigator was developed in consultation with the education community, career practitioners, students and whānau and will help New Zealanders make informed career decisions at any stage in their lives.
Next generation careers planning
Tahatū Career Navigator is the next generation of the current careers.govt.nz website, refreshing the best of its content, tools and functions. It connects NCEA school subjects, qualifications and careers and shows the most common ways others have taken to get to that career or job. It brings this information together for the first time in one place, profiling nearly 100 school subjects, over 4,000 qualifications and more than 800 career ideas.
Tahatū Career Navigator is a trusted source of careers information across New Zealand and a key resource for those providing careers support and advice.
Tahatū Career Navigator is an initiative of the National Careers System Strategy and Action Plan.
Read the National Careers System Strategy
Stay connected with Tahatū Career Navigator
To stay connected, sign up to our Tahatū Career Navigator emails to receive the latest career information, tips and resources at Sign up to stay connected – Tahatū Career Navigator.
Tahatū Career Navigator marketing toolkit
To help you share information about Tahatū Career Navigator with your career practice colleagues, see below for a link to the Tahatū Career Navigator marketing toolkit. 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)
careers.govt.nz will be retired in early December 2025
The careers.govt.nz website will be retired in early December 2025, with targeted redirects to Tahatū Career Navigator in place from that time through to the end of February 2026.
We are working with our stakeholders to provide them with specific Tahatū Career Navigator page links to replace any careers.govt.nz page links they have on their websites. If you would like to know more about this, please email the TEC Customer Service Team at customerservice@tec.govt.nz.
A new career practice hub is under development
Most of the careers.govt.nz resources will continue to be available through a new career practice hub currently being developed for career practitioners. The hub will be accessible via the Tahatū Career Navigator website ahead of careers.govt.nz being retired.
As part of this transition, resources are being reviewed, and where needed, refreshed to ensure they remain relevant, practical, and fit for the future of career practice. Resources will continue to be added to the hub over time.
More information
For more information about Tahatū Career Navigator, see:
Tahatū Career Navigator – Frequently asked questions
If you have any other questions, please contact TEC’s Customer Contact Team at customerservice@tec.govt.nz.