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Mentoring from business leaders helps break employment barriers

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From 22 June to 31 August we will be making rolling changes to our website, careers.govt.nz, including improvements to our suite of free online career planning tools.

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Continuing our Q & A series – answering questions from parents about their children's work and learning choices.

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Auckland pilot cements Work Connect roll out

More than 200 skilled migrants and international students have benefited from Work Connect – now the programme is heading to other main centres.
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