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Your career. We care.

Supporting people and organisations to become highly adaptable while navigating key decisions. Sense-making for satisfying careers.

OUR Services

Supporting your career journey through
life, learning, and work

Career Coaching & Counselling

Career coaching and counselling helps individuals gain clarity  for creating plans and initiating realistic actions through reflection and exploration.

Mentoring

Positive mentoring relationships can promote confidence, expand knowledge, and stimulate new practice. 

Professional Supervision

Professional supervision is a formal collaborative and confidential process for those who work with people, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all concerned.

Effective career conversations 

Our Effective Career Conversations programme equips managers and staff to have constructive career conversations in the workplace.

WHo WE ARE

We support your journey, walking hand-in-hand with you as your trusted guides

Our business focus is on our clients: to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organisations to thrive. However, we do things differently, and that’s something we celebrate.

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WHAT WE DO

Empowering you to confidently navigate a career change

Since the inception of The Career Development Company in 2018 our offer to individuals and organisations has expanded to include a range of services from Career Coaching and Counselling, Professional Supervision and Mentoring, to Outplacement support, Career Development Programme Review, and bespoke workshops and career services, and much more.

Get in touch with us today to discuss how we can support you during a transitional phase.

Our Services
OUR APPROACH

Navigating career with a wayfinding mindset

At The Career Development Company we’ve adopted a Wayfinding Mindset to help you navigate your career and find your way.

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Our Testimonials

Thank you for being incredibly positive and encouraging during a challenging time in my life. You helped me to clarify my career goals and to see more clearly my strengths and what would bring me the most fulfilment. I encourage anyone struggling with career questions to take a leap of faith and give career coaching a go.

I feel a lot clearer about my direction. Thank you so much for your time in getting my mind on the right path. I have been telling people about your amazing ability to allow people to reflect and support them with making decisions around their career.

I really valued the way you drew out a true understanding of my background experiences and operating principles to better understand what is important to me in a future role. You then connected and wove this understanding into a CV and Cover Letter framework that can be applied to the next job application I submit. Thanks so much for this clear and concise process.

I can't thank you enough for your support. Your guidance gave me confidence and I felt quite comfortable at my interview. I'm really excited about my new career path and the future this job will bring!

It was a privilege and pleasure to participate in your workshop. It is phenomenal what you managed to share in such a short time. Having the 1:1 follow up was a huge help in building momentum and implementation. It feels like every aspect added a new layer in building my confidence. Very empowering!

You helped me reflect on my current role and clarify my professional goals and aspirations. Your compassion, active listening and constructive feedback has made me feel heard, understood, and more equipped to make positive changes in my professional life. I would highly recommend your service to others.

I just wanted to express my gratitude for your invaluable mentorship. It has been really helpful over the years as I changed roles - always remembering you and all the positive affirmations throughout these crucial career junctures.

Thanks for the soul-searching session we had. I enjoyed myself and it exposed me to a new and different way of leading and finding my path again.

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How can we help?

We would love to discuss how we can support you on your career journey or your next project.

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HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU

Providing career development support
for a range of clients

Whatever stage you are at in your career journey, making decisions about your future can often be overwhelming. Our services will help bring clarity and support, so that you can effectively navigate the next step in your journey to achieve your desired outcome.

Our career practitioners will work with you to demystify and simplify the process and equip you with the right tools and the knowledge to make good decisions for your future.

Sessions are tailored to the individual so you can gain the outcome that you want.  Two to four sessions are typically required.

What can we help you with?

  • Understanding who you are, and what you have to offer
  • Clarity about your future career direction
  • Understanding the labour market
  • Strategies for achieving your goal, with realistic steps to make that happen
  • Developing your career profile to ensure effective personal branding.
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Engage our team of career professionals to support your staff and managers to have meaningful and productive careers, to navigate the career transitions across their lifetimes, and to enhance their health and wellbeing. We understand the challenges faced with the conflicting demands on time and resources when taking an active role in career and talent management, and in promoting the health and wellbeing of each employee. There is ample evidence that career development brings substantial benefits to the economy, as well as to organisations.   

Your need for external career development services may be identified:

  • during workforce or business planning
  • in setting milestones for an organisational change project
  • through staff engagement reports or exit surveys
  • from client feedback
  • for delivery to students or trainees, or
  • from evaluations of learning and development programmes.
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The Career Development Company offers specialist expertise and support to education providers, helping them design, develop, and deliver career development programmes and services.  Students and trainees also need support to navigate transitions between education, training, and employment.

As a team we are committed to helping learners connect their learning with the world of work and who they will become: their future selves. We will work with you to support student and trainee engagement, understanding and a desire for lifelong learning.

What can we help you with?

  • Developing or strengthening your current career development programmes and services to enhance the outcomes for your students and trainees
  • Training staff to engage in effective career conversations with staff, students, or trainees, using our unique RECI™ model for effective career conversations.
  • Presenting topical career development seminars and workshops for staff, students, trainees, and parents
  • Providing individual and group career coaching and counselling or professional supervision sessions for staff, students, and trainees
  • Providing professional development for teaching staff in the integration of the ‘world of work’ into the classroom
  • Supporting career staff to design, develop and deliver evidence-based career development programmes
  • Advising on and/or lead the review, design, and development of New Zealand career-specific qualifications, programmes, and assessment.
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The Career Development Company is an approved All-of-Government provider of HR-Career Development Services. We are confident our career development services will benefit your organisation, managers, and staff.  Our career development expertise complements existing management and HR/OD functions. By taking an active role in your staff’s careers, you can create an environment of trust, openness, and increased engagement and satisfaction.

What can we help you with?

  • Support for organisational change - support your staff to develop skills and confidence to manage their career transitions in times of change, with our career transition and outplacement service.
  • Support for individual career development - encourage your staff to take responsibility for their life-long career development through our individual career development services.
  • Support for manager development -support managers to develop the confidence to have effective career conversations, and to grow in their role and with the organisation through mentoring. 
  • Support to deliver services to your client and community groups - support your organisation to develop or strengthen career development programmes and services to enhance the outcomes for your clients, students, or trainees.
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The Career Development Company is an advocate for professionalism in the careers industry and for the valuable role that professional associations and bodies play. As a team we are currently members of CDANZ, CATE, HRNZ, ICF, CDAA, CEAV, AI Forum, Women AI (WAI) Forum, Maori and Pasifika Career Practitioners Network, National Council of Women New Zealand, Office of Ethnic Communities Women to Women (W2W) Group. We are committed to supporting practitioners to continue to develop their competencies and to work ethically for positive outcomes for their clients.

  • Professional supervision or mentoring to grow in your current role and as a practitioner
  • Career coaching and counselling for your career journey
  • Professional development in effective career conversations
  • Support with the design and delivery of career development programmes and services.
  • ... and much more!

To develop and review your career profile with confidence, contact us today.