If you are the one people ask about their next move, this course is built for that. You learn how to guide someone through a career choice, from the first questions to a plan they will follow.
Schools, recruitment agencies and training providers all need people who can guide a career decision. You learn how to run that conversation, from the first questions through to a plan.
You may already do this part of the job. The manager who mentors. The tutor students come to. This puts a method behind it, with counselling skills and a way to run a guidance session.
Fully online at your own pace, with 6 months of access and no exams. Tutor support is there by phone and email in business hours.
Careers help is wanted wherever people work or study: schools, recruitment agencies, training providers and HR teams. The work is easy to picture. You sit down with someone, work out what they are good at, and help them plan the next step.
Working beside an advisor in a school or training provider. Running guidance sessions is a topic in its own right here.
Helping people match what they are good at to work that exists. The career paths and exploration topics are the daily tools.
Getting people into roles and keeping them there. Counselling skills matter as much as the job listings do.
Talking to candidates about fit, not just availability. Knowing how a career decision gets made changes those calls.
Supporting people through a change they did not choose. The topic on shifting industries speaks straight to this.
Helping a team plan its own skills and next steps. Career development services are covered as a topic.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Counselling registration in New Zealand runs through its own accredited study and supervised practice.
Nine topics, from how careers work to running a guidance session.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Building counselling skills and running a guidance session are topics of their own. That is the part people find hardest: asking the right question, then sitting with the answer.
Students and recent graduates. Working professionals. People whose industry is changing under them. Each group gets its own topic, because each one needs a different approach.
Enrolment opens the Career Centre: job listings, CV templates, a personalised CV review, interview preparation and a five step job success process.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Issued by the college once you finish the course.
The course carries accreditation with the CPD Standards Office, so you earn CPD credits on completion.
A SEEK Pass link arrives in your learning platform with your certificate, so you can share it on your SEEK profile.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay upfront in one payment, or take the flexible weekly plan from $29 a week.
Nine topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. No exams at any point.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, your CPD credits and a SEEK Pass link to share.
None needed. It is built as a starting point for people with no background in this area. You begin with how career paths work and build from there.
Around 100 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
From $29 a week on a flexible plan. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the current options.
There are none, ever. You work through the topics at your own pace, with tutor support behind you by phone and email in business hours.
You finish able to sit down with someone and guide a career decision, which is what careers support roles are built on. Counselling registration is a separate path: NZAC registration asks for its own accredited study and supervised practice. What you get here is the ground under those conversations, and a fast read on whether the work suits you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not accredited by NZQA, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For careers support work, what people judge you on is how you run the conversation, and that is what you practise here.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right for you, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand. It has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year.
Courses run fully online at your own pace, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching comes with your enrolment, including CV help, interview preparation and a LinkedIn profile review. The college donates a portion of course proceeds to Youthline.
Picture the call from someone you sat down with a month ago, ringing to tell you they got the job.