TEC Launches Tahatū Career Navigator, Replacing careers.govt.nz

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is gearing up for the public launch of its new careers planning website, Tahatū Career Navigator, slated for the end of 2025. This new platform will replace the current careers.govt.nz website.

Tahatū Career Navigator is described as the "next generation" of the existing site, refreshing its best content, tools, and functions. Its primary purpose is to deliver complex careers information in a useful and interactive way to help all New Zealanders make informed career decisions at any stage of life.

The new website connects NCEA school subjects, qualifications, and careers, and also shows the most common pathways others have taken to reach a specific career or job. For the first time, it brings this information into one place, profiling nearly 100 school subjects, 4,000 qualifications, and 800 career ideas.

The TEC is promoting Tahatū Career Navigator as the 'go-to' careers information website for all New Zealanders. It will serve as a key source of information on qualifications and where to study or train in New Zealand.

The platform has already begun rolling out to secondary schools and kura across New Zealand since 24 March 2025, following a successful pilot.

Tertiary Education Organisations (TEOs) are being advised to prepare for key changes that will affect them, including:

• How tertiary qualifications are displayed.
• How Key Information for Students (KIS) is presented.
• Updating links on their websites that currently point to careers.govt.nz.

The TEC stresses the importance of TEOs updating their websites to link to Tahatū Career Navigator when it launches to the public to retain and grow the significant web traffic the old site referred (over 90,000 visits to TEO websites in the last year).

While the public launch is scheduled for the end of the year, New Zealanders are encouraged to look out for Tahatū Career Navigator as it becomes the nation's new resource for career planning. For more information, please visit the TEC website.