Using Your Experience, NZ Herald November 2014
An Otago Polytech degree course ensures your on-the-job experience counts. By Heather Carpenter Using Your Experience by Heather Carpenter (NZ Herald, November 2014)
Graduated and there is no work?
Another graduate has just left my office, hopefully with some strategies to combat the despondency of finding no work available, another of the cohort that is feeling the brunt of a world wide slump in work for young people. A message … Read More
Be strategic, adaptable, and keep your eyes on the prize
Be realistic? Follow your passion? Look for the predicted shortages? The high salaries? You are bombarded with advice from journalists, government ministers and careers advisers on the best path to follow in career choices. The job climate is highly unpredictable, … Read More
Your 21st Century Career
A good place to start with a fascinating 24 hours in the capital. Made a flying trip to Wellington for a brief appearance on TVNZ Good Morning show, to talk about Your 21st Century career. How do you put a … Read More
Boys, achievement, and careers
Anne Tolley is right, there are lots of theories about boys underachievement, but I am convinced by the motivational difference I see in young men who have found their sense of direction, that when they know what would really suit … Read More
West Australia – big state, big workforce issues
What an experience to be at the WA Department of Training and Workforce Development Career Centre in downtown Perth the morning after the Australian Budget is delivered! I was there to deliver a presentation to celebrate National Career Development week-and … Read More
Skill Shortages and NZ Young People
What are they thinking? The latest Manpower Group Talent Shortage Survey comments that the global employability crisis persists: skilled trades workers have topped the ‘most in demand’ list for four of the last five years, and at the same time, … Read More
San Francisco and Careers
I am standing at the security fence of the Team NZ Emirates America’s Cup base on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, and I start talking to another photographer. We are both trying to get a shot of the big boat, … Read More
Follow your heart through career maze
New Zealand author Heather Carpenter is no stranger to the changing world of careers in the 21st century. She has had various roles including educator, career counsellor, lecturer, researcher and now writer. A mid-life move to Hawkes Bay to “tend … Read More