Tahatū Career Navigator

Tahatū Career Navigator

Last updated 17 November 2025
Last updated 17 November 2025

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.

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See also: Tahatū Career Navigator information for TEOs

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

Read the Action Plan

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:

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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 retire on 4 December 2025

The careers.govt.nz website will retire on 4 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.

New home for careers.govt.nz resources

We have reviewed, and where needed, refreshed the careers.govt.nz resources to ensure they are useful, relevant, and ready for future career practice. These resources are now available on the Career Practice Hub or incorporated into the content of Tahatū Career Navigator.

Go to the Career Practice Hub

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More information

For more information about Tahatū Career Navigator, see:

If you have any other questions, please contact TEC’s Customer Contact Team at customerservice@tec.govt.nz.