Career Services
Career Services is the government agency that helps people to make informed decisions about employment, training and study. Telephone, website and face-to-face services are available to all New Zealanders. Face-to-face sessions are tailored to the meet the needs of migrants and refugees.
Career Services can advise and provide practical information about:
- Exploring local work trends, training options and pathways to work
- What employers are looking for and job searching strategies,
- How to sell yourself, learning new interview techniques, improving CVs and covering letters, and
- Identifying and addressing barriers to finding sustainable employment.
Visit the Career Services website or telephone 0800 222 733 for information and advice. Career Services has 17 offices throughout New Zealand. Phone 0800 222 733 to be connected to your local office.
Career Services offers clients access to Language Line, the telephone interpreting service. To speak to a Career Services representative in one of the 39 languages currently offered, phone 0800 222 733. State your language and ‘Language Line’ for an interpreter in your language to be connected.
Career Services PDF [40KB]
Work and Income (Ministry of Social Development)
Work and Income is a service line of the Ministry of Social Development, providing income support and employment services to New Zealanders from over 190 locations throughout the country.
Work and Income offers a range of services for refugees and migrants. These include support to find a job and assistance to those in employment to make it easier to remain in work. Services available specifically for migrants and refugees include:
- tailored refugee and migrant work programmes, and
- employment initiatives linked with ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) providers.
For more information on the range of products and services available, view the Work and Income website.
Work and Income offers a multi-lingual service in 11 languages. This free service is available in Samoan, Maori, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tongan, Arabic, Khmer, Farsi, Punjabi, Somali and Hindi.
For more information about services and support available view the Work and Income website.
Work and Income PDF