Wide range of general resources for clients
Business Planning Tools - quick start guide and business plan template and business starter resources

Career change and bathroom renovations: what they have in common. My experience.

Career change and house buying: the common elements seen on a TV programme. Location, Location, Location

Choices, making the hard ones - A very useful view on how to make hard choices, turning them into into opportunities, not obstacles. TED talk by Ruth Chang

​Confidence matters just as much as competence. Atlantic magazine article on the gap between the confidence of men and women and a great TED talk by Amy Cuddy on how to feel confident when you need to.

Financial planning with the help of this great government website - Sorted​​
Future employability, how to stay ahead when many of the jobs we'll be doing in 2025 have not been invented yet - read

Future of Work - find out what jobs will look like in 2030. Canadian resource but applicable globally - link
Googled! - You will be checked out before an interview - read this first.
Grit - The key to success. TED talk by Angela Lee Duckworth
Herald articles - always a great range of topics to peruse in the NZ Herald Employment Archives
Holland's Career Theory RIASEC - helping find careers that fit your personality link
LinkedIn for Nervous Newies - read
LinkedIn - optimising your profile - link1  link2
Luck is no Accident - from the theory of Planned Happenstance, try this activity sheet to increase your own "luck"
Myers Briggs - some common careers for the different personality types
NCEA: Understanding how it works - link
One Week Job - Sean Aiken took 52 jobs in 52 weeks around North America to help him discover his passion
​Occupational Outlook - Department of Labour research 2014
Parent's Guide to the Decade After High School - a Canadian document with lots of useful information to help parents.
Planned Happenstance - making your own "luck", what is it all about link

Positive Psychology - a TED talk by Martin Seligman

Prioritising - try this activity sheet to compare interest and feasibility levels and then decide priorities.
Recruitment via social media - be aware, read this Sunday Star Times article
Retirement - 4 Steps to a More Fulfilling Retirement - article by Steve Vernon in Forbes
Retirement - what do you actually do - article by Ann Brenoff from Huffington Post
Robert Walters Salary Data 2015 - link
Sixties plus communities in NZ - Sixtys Up
Sixties plus online community in Australia - Starts at Sixty
Skills needed for 2020 - infographic
Skills recommended for the 21st Century - read
Social networking has proven to be a powerful tool for giving students an experience of Deloitte NZ before they set foot in the office - read
Starting a new job? - excellent advice
Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) speech to graduates - you've got to find what you love
Strengths Identification - take this simple test and then discover where to use them
Teenagers - What I'd tell my teenage self: life and career advice from the TED staff
​Top 10 telephone tips for calling about a job from CareerFAQs - link
University of Auckland - links to free seminars, and pay-for short courses
Values- slideshow from Ideo - it is not just about competency or technical skill but culture and shared values and beliefs.

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​GENERAL RESOURCES

Latest resources

Aptitude Test practice - most jobs will make you do testing these days (often online) so get yourself ready - link1link2
Application letters - useful tips - link
​Career Planning resources - very useful material from the University of Kent Career Services - link
CV updating - the latest suggestions - link
​Online CV tools - templates, web CVs etc - link

​On the job training for the service industry - link