Employment Resources
The Resources Hub is your go-to space for learning, support, and development. It’s designed to help you grow your skills, stay connected, and access useful tools whenever you need them.
Online Learning Tools
Digital Passport – Learning Made Easy
Start your journey with confidence.
Digital Passport offers bite-size learning modules that make it easy to build the essential skills needed in today’s workplace. Starting at Level 1, you’ll cover the basics—from using computers and technology to developing the soft skills that help you get job-ready
- Learn at your own pace
- Track your progress
- Build confidence for employment
FREE Online Healthcare Training & Job Placement
MySkill provides free training and will help find you a job as a support worker.
To be eligible you must be a NZ permanent resident or citizen.
Interested? Find out more about our programme and sign up below.
E-Learning Online specialise in delivering the best short courses across a number of exciting industries.
All of our courses have been created from the ground up by industry professionals and our collective mission is to up skill New Zealanders to become employment or business owner ready as quickly as possible.
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Employment New Zealand’s free online learning modules help employers and employees understand their workplace rights and responsibilities. Covering key topics like pay, leave, hours, and dispute resolution, these resources are designed to introduce the basics being a great first step toward understanding your rights and obligations.
Employment Tools
Your job journey, made simple.
Build skills, get support, and plan your next steps – all in one place. Free tools and personalised guidance for every stage.
Te Heke Mai is a free CV online platform in Aotearoa New Zealand that helps people plan their careers, build great CVs, and find the right jobs.
Whether you’re looking for your first job, changing careers, or getting back into work, Te Heke Mai offers:
- A simple CV and cover letter builder
- Step-by-step career coaching and goal setting
- A helpful AI assistant called Ruru, who can guide you and even help write your CV
- Access to online learning to grow your skills
The NZQA Record of Learning (also called the Record of Achievement) is your official record of all the qualifications, NCEA results, and unit standards you’ve completed in New Zealand.
Useful when you’re:
- Applying for jobs
- Enrolling in further study
- Proving your skills and achievements
What It Shows
- NCEA results (Levels 1–3)
- Unit standards and achievement standards
- Certificates, diplomas, and micro-credentials earned through approved training providers
Learn, grow and explore new opportunities with our fully-funded training courses. Everyone is welcome!
Life satisfaction – Build confidence and improve your personal and work life.
Work opportunities – Get better jobs, open career pathways, support your whānau and organisation.
Digital skills – Understand the digital world and use phones and computers effectively.
Whānau and community – Read books with whānau, balance the budget, learn to drive, help community.
EmployNZ helps people to pathway to employment through our courses, placement services, and the support services we offer.
We work with people who have left school with low or no qualifications, people looking for employment, people looking to access the Youth Service, and those who need English Language or Literacy courses.
We work with our students and clients so they can gain the desired skills, knowledge and the confidence to pathway onto higher level tertiary program or present themselves to employers for employment.
Career NZ is a free website that helps people in Aotearoa plan their learning, training, and career paths. It offers easy-to-use tools like:
- Career Quizzes to match your interests and skills with job ideas
- Job Profiles with info on pay, tasks, and qualifications
- CV Builder to help you create a professional CV
- Study & Training Info including NCEA subjects, apprenticeships, and scholarships
- Support for Whānau & Educators to guide learners at every stage
Vertical Horizonz New Zealand (VHNZ) has over 26 years’ experience in providing NZQA accredited safety training. Throughout VHNZ, there is a profound dedication to developing world-class safety training that is engaging, meaningful, and practical, that has the success of our learners at its heart.
Building people
Fifty-five thousand BCITO trade qualified professionals and counting. We’re passionate about what we do which is changing people’s lives and helping them create successful careers and lifestyles.
The construction industry needs confident, capable and motivated professionals. Through on-the-job training and regular guidance we’re building a skilled workforce in which talented people can excel.
Alongside our industry employers, we create futures for dedicated tradies. We help them develop successful careers and become valuable contributors in New Zealand’s building and construction industry.
Driver Licensing
Preparing to sit your Driver license?
EastbayREAP
Get the driving skills and licenses you need to go places safely.
Eastbay REAP can help you learn the road code and understand the steps you need to take before you sit your learner, restricted or full license drivers license.
Service areas – Whakatane, Kawerau, Murupara, Opotiki
Moving Mountains Offers
- LEARNER LICENCE PROGRAMME
- RESTRICTED LICENCE PROGRAMME
- FULL LICENCE PROGRAMME
- CV’s and EMPLOYMENT PREPARATION
- EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT SERVICE
Our Criteria:
- Each Programme has a set of criteria. Please check with us to find out your eligibility.
- Must be at least 16 years of age.
- You must provide us with a copy of your birth certiifcate or passport as Identification.
- For the restricted licence programme you must have held a valid learners licence for at least 6 months.
- For the full licence programme you must have held your restricted licence for the required period.
YOUR LOCAL WHAKATANE DRIVING SCHOOL
Exceed Driver Training, your go-to driving school offering driving lessons in Whakatane. Whether you’re a beginner starting your driving journey, or an experienced driver looking to enhance your skills, we’re here to support you every step of the way.
Our goal is to provide comprehensive driving lessons in Whakatane, tailored to your unique needs. We prioritise your safety and confidence, creating a positive learning environment where you can thrive. From mastering the basics to advanced driving techniques, we cover it all, ensuring you become a skilled and responsible driver.
VTNZ
Book your Car License test
Find out about the stages to getting your car license – Learner, Restricted and Full. To become a fully-licensed driver, you need to complete all stages.
Job Searching
Rukuhia Vacancies Portal
Visit our dedicated job portal to view current openings across the Eastern Bay of Plenty
Trade Me Jobs is one of the biggest job portals in NZ and we help millions of Kiwi along their career journey. We have jobs for people looking to work from home, and work full or part time. Use the platform to find jobs across hospitality, healthcare, construction, education, agriculture and more.
Trade Me Jobs has a library of career advice and tools, including a salary guide, to help your development.
SEEK a market leader in online employment marketplaces, SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.
Ahu Jobs Community
Mā te whiritahi, ka whakatutuki, ai ngā pūmanawa ā tangata
Together weaving the realisation of potential
Join to stay up to date with exclusive articles, advice and opportunities from hiring professionals and employers from across Aotearoa.
Kimi Mahi Mai is a free, user-friendly online job board provided by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). It hosts thousands of real, up-to-date job listings from employers across a wide range of industries—everything from construction and hospitality to healthcare and admin.
It’s especially useful for:
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People currently receiving Jobseeker Support
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Those looking to return to work after a break
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Anyone wanting help finding meaningful, sustainable employment
Careers at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country’s largest employer, providing universal healthcare to 5 million Kiwis nationwide.
We offer a wide range of roles across clinical and non-clinical specialties in over 80 locations.
Join us in shaping the future of healthcare in New Zealand.
Financial Support
Whakatāne Financial Mentoring Service offers free financial mentoring, budgeting advice/financial plan and skills for individuals and families in the Whakatane District.
The aim of our service is to educate people to manage their finances effectively and to empower them so that they can develop their own plan to better manage their money.
Our Financial Mentors can advocate and talk on behalf of their clients to people whom they may owe money, to sort out a manageable payment plan. We offer a range of services from crisis advice, advocacy to comprehensive on-going financial mentoring and budgeting advice.
Have your money sorted – that comfortable and confident sense of getting ahead financially and making the most of your money – and Sorted’s here to help you enjoy that. Sorted is for you – it’s your independent, impartial voice on all things money.
As New Zealand’s trusted personal finance site, Sorted has the tools and information you need to tackle debt, plan and budget, save and invest, dial up your KiwiSaver, plan for retirement, protect what’s important and manage a mortgage. No matter where you’re at when it comes to money – just starting your first job or wrapping up a successful career – Sorted lets you fine-tune your finances and get ahead money-wise.
Your free guide to budget apps, thanks to Booster and mybudgetpal
mybudgetpal is a free web app that gives you a complete view of your finances; it tracks your spending so you can compare spending over different periods and isolate areas or habits that need attention.
Employer Resources
Mana in Mahi – For employers
If you’re keen to help someone who needs additional support to kickstart a long-term career, we can help with funding and wrap-around on-the-job support.
Employer and employee in the forest as arborists
With Mana in Mahi, you can:
- help someone gain real-world skills and formal qualifications in an industry they’ll love
- develop skilled, knowledgeable people for your business
- know you’re helping someone create the future they deserve.
Employment Advice
Tahatū Career Navigator is the next generation of the current careers.govt.nz website, refreshing the best of its content, tools and functions. It connects NCEA school subjects, qualifications and careers and shows the most common ways others have taken to get to that career or job. It brings this information together for the first time in one place, profiling nearly 100 school subjects, over 4,000 qualifications and more than 800 career ideas.
Tahatū Career Navigator is a trusted source of careers information across New Zealand and a key resource for those providing careers support and advice.
Tahatū Career Navigator is an initiative of the National Careers System Strategy and Action Plan.
Whether you’re still a student, starting your career or an experienced professional, we have all the answers to your burning questions.
- CV & Résumé Help
- Professional CV and resume services and downloads for all levels
- Smart and accurate testing to help you find the right path
- Browse for vacancies to find a new position that you’ll love
- Expert advice and opinion from industry specialists