New online quiz is a first step to a rewarding career

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12 November 2013

New online quiz is a first step to a rewarding career

Today in South Auckland, Careers New Zealand launched the new website tool, Career Checker.

This is an interactive online quiz that anyone can do as a first step towards working out a personal career path.

The quiz has 12 picture based questions that rate answers on a scale of 1 to 5 starting with a dull or frustrated image to a photo illustrating vibrancy and confidence.

Based on these answers, the quiz taker is guided to relevant resources to help them take proactive steps to making informed career decisions.
It can also stimulate career conversations for families and career professionals.

At today’s launch at STRIVE Community Trust, Chief Executive of Careers New Zealand Dr Graeme Benny explained that the Careers New Zealand website www.careers.govt.nz is evolving to assist an individual’s needs rather than providing general information so that people get the right help at the right time in their life.

“We have found that the more a young person understands themselves, their values, ambitions, skills and personal situation, the better they can match themselves to further study and a job,” Dr Benny said.

“The Career Checker helps someone with that process of self-discovery with a view to a rewarding career. It is a great conversation starter for those in secondary school with their career advisors and teachers and for kids with their parents. The results can be saved and revisited so that someone can build their personal profile.

“To succeed nowadays it pays to start thinking early about how you will match to the job market now and into the future.
Without this planning there can be a great deal of disappointment. This may mean that study choices don’t lead to jobs and various pursued passions don’t match employability,” he said.

This picture based quiz is designed to be visually appealing to young people that increasingly use the internet to get information.

It helps to make the first steps on the journey to a career easier and more accessible. This newest tool is part of a suite of interactive web tools: Compare Study Options, CV Builder and Know Your Skills.
Visit: http://www.careers.govt.nz/tools/career-checker

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