On this page:

• Our data
• Additional qualifications data (previously known as Key Information for Students [KIS])
• Important actions for TEOs
• TEO leadership webinars
• TEO careers/student support team webinars

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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

We’ve created a video for TEOs where we explain Tahatū Career Navigator’s key data concepts and what makes it unique.

Video transcript: Explaining our data – Tahatū Career Navigator

Additional qualifications data (previously known as Key Information for Students [KIS])

Additional qualifications-related data (previously referred to as Key Information for Students [KIS] on careers.govt.nz) has now been 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.

• Provider-based infosheet about Tahatū data and qualifications (PDF 857 KB)
• Work-based infosheet about Tahatū data and qualifications (PDF 957 KB)

Important actions for TEOs

As headlined earlier this year, Tahatū Career Navigator brings other key changes that affect TEOs as detailed below.

1. Transitioning to a new KIS button and linking your qualifications to Tahatū Career Navigator

To find out more about the new KIS button and how to link your organisation’s qualifications to Tahatū Career Navigator, please read the infosheet below:

Updating the KIS button image on your website (PDF 317 KB)

2. Update 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:

1. Check your website for any links to careers.govt.nz.
2. 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)

3. 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)

TEO leadership webinars

We held a series of webinars to support TEO leadership with the transition from careers.govt.nz to Tahatū Career Navigator.

If you were unable to attend and would like to view a recording of one of the sessions, please contact the TEC Customer Contact Team, phone 0800 601 301 or email customerservice@tec.govt.nz.

TEO careers/student support team webinars

We held awareness and deep dive sessions aimed at providing TEO careers and student support teams with a greater understanding of Tahatū Career Navigator.

Topics covered included:

• 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.

If you were unable to attend and would like a copy of the material covered, please contact the TEC Customer Contact Team, phone 0800 601 301 or email customerservice@tec.govt.nz.

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.