CATE—Career and Transition Education Association eNewsletter

Kia ora Everyone,
Nearly there, with one more sleep to go!

In this newsletter I have sent through the recording and links to information following the Online Gateway Conference. I have been waiting for the answers to the questions that were not able to be answered due to time constraints. These have not come through as yet but I will send them as soon as they are available.

For holiday reading, I have included a couple of interesting articles on supporting students to make career decisions and the latest discussions around Gen Z in the workplace.

The CATE Conference is only 61 days away. The speakers and workshops have been finalised so check out Facebook and your inbox for more information. We have some amazing workshop opportunities available that cover a wide variety of topics including Gateway, Career influencers, Hopeful Transitions, Te Ao Career Conversations, Industry presentations as well as recent research. There will be an opportunity to hear more about the National Careers System Strategy, the NCEA change package (Pathways) and the new Tahatū platform replacing Careers NZ which will be launched early in 2024.

Take some time for yourselves these holidays to “reset, recharge and renew”!

Ngā mihi,
Leigh

Gateway Online Conference Recording and Information
Thank you to all those who attended the Gateway Online Conference, we had over 220 members join the online conference with many members meeting and watching together.

Attached below are the recordings from our keynote speakers and presentation slides or notes from the presenters in the breakout rooms.

We would really appreciate you taking the time to complete the following survey form so we understand what has been valuable and what we could do better to meet your needs.
Gateway Online Conference 2023 Evaluation Survey

Speakers
TEC Jordan Murphy Session
Workforce Development Tia Rata Session
WorkSafe Alana McClintock Session
Waihanga Ara Rau Michelle TiaTia Session

Gateway Teacher/Coordinator
Gateway Notes Esther Harvey Breakout Room
GATEWAY with CAREER CENTRAL

Industry Organisation Providers
Marine MAST Slideshow
MAST Launch it Brochure
The Learning Place - Health and Safety Courses
Primary Training Organisation Slideshow

Lunchtime Byte—Thursday 26th October, 12.30 pm
Career Wayfinding: Navigating your future pathways
Each year for the past 11 years Dr Val O'Reilly (Kāi Tahu) has worked with colleagues at Lynfield College in Auckland to deliver career development services for former refugee and migrant students. Val will share details from the Career Wayfinding programme delivered in 2023 for 31 awesome students from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Students are in Years 10 to 13. The programme was delivered as a pilot project and will be reviewed for its viability and scalability in a range of school contexts.

About Dr Val O’Reily
Among other things, such as co-founding The CDC, Val has taught curriculum subjects in secondary schools, worked as a school careers advisor, completed doctoral research about career development in secondary schools, presented on career development in secondary schools at Australian and Aotearoa NZ conferences, had journal articles on career development in secondary schools published, delivered talks about career development at senior school assemblies, and written a book chapter about career development for refugee students in secondary schools. Val remains committed to advocating for the transformative power of career development—especially for education and schools and their students!

Register here

Supporting students to make decisions about their next step
At this time of the year many of our students become paralysed by the decision making process and they worry about making wrong decisions. Here is an article from CERIC that you may like to share with students and whānau as they contemplate their transition from secondary school. The article talks about 12 ideas that can set young people up for career success.
From decision paralysis to discovery: Supporting young adults to start their careers—CareerWise

Careers NZ also has some useful information that heps students who are “stuck” including a video which highlights how five young people choose what to do after school and how it worked.
Still not sure what to do? (careers.govt.nz)

Gen Z—What does “good employment” look like?
Thank you to Philppa Leask who shared this clip from Sunday last week. The segment looks at the different work attitudes of Gen Z. Dr Jarrod Haar, who speaks throughout the clip, was a keynote at the Good Youth Employment Symposium held in Lower Hutt last week and I listened to him speak about “What employability looks like for Gen Z”. Some of the key messages from his presentations were:

One third of of our working population will be Gen Z by 2025
Most of this generation are digital natives, they had their first cellphone before they were 12
Most of Gen Z’s get information from TikTok, YouTube or Instagram

As discussed in the Sunday document, Gen Z sees good employment as secure employment with a decent pay, decent working conditions, flexibility, good training and development opportunities and the opportunity for a good work life balance. What do you think?

Watch Sunday WORK IN PROGRESS | TVNZ+