Achieve NCEA and develop a path that progresses to further study, training and employment.
When you are selecting subjects for NCEA Level 1 or 2, enter the unit or achievement (assessment) standards into the Vocational Pathways Profile Builder to see which Vocational Pathway(s) they contribute to. You can also search for achievement standards at Level 3.
This will show you if your subject selections could help to prepare you for what you have already decided you want to do after school. Or, you may instead discover that the subjects you want to take fit mostly within a Pathway you had not thought about before.
Did you especially enjoy learning about certain things? You can enter the associated assessment standards into the Profile Builder to see if your interests naturally lean towards one Pathway or another.
The Vocational Pathways Assessment Standards tool can also be helpful. You can select a Pathway that will take you to a list of all its standards and see if any of them sound interesting to you.
You can learn what different jobs and careers in the Pathways involve by going to www.careers.govt.nz and talking with people who are already in the roles you are most interested in.
It is important to remember that all assessment standards help to build employability skills, such as critical thinking and communication. Most also build skills and knowledge that can be applied to almost all Pathways. It is okay to decide to change direction – no learning is wasted.
Have extra confidence your programmes support students to progress to further study, training and employment
The Vocational Pathways Profile Builder can be especially helpful when considering various options as you design your teaching and learning programmes.
You can input the associated assessment standard numbers into the Profile Builder to see if they are ones valued by industry. You can see how many credits contribute to each Pathway and how they are split between sector-related and recommended standards.
You can go to the Vocational Pathways Assessment Standards tool and select which Pathway you’re interested in developing a programme for. This will show all the available standards, which you can further filter according to Level and to sector-related or recommended.
The assessment standards in each Vocational Pathway are reviewed annually to ensure they remain relevant and to add any new ones.
If you’re a people person this could be the Pathway for you. Careers in this Pathway are all about supporting the community and caring for people in need.
This Pathway includes health, care and disability services, social services, youth services, beauty and nail services, education and education support services, funeral services, civil defence, fire and emergency services, public order safety and urban pest management. All are essential for the well-being and safety of our citizens and careers in them can be truly rewarding.