This report draws on evidence from the first eight months of the Direct Career Service (DCS) programme, from October 2020 to June 2021, focusing on its reach and early outcomes for New Zealanders.

Empowering YOUth Initiatives was an employment program for young people aged 15 to 24 years who were long-term unemployed. This report summarises learnings that were common across the individual program initiatives, summarising learnings into four themes: activities delivered, the delivery process, specific intervention types and departmental learnings.

This paper explores fault lines that run through the relationship between education and work, such as the contested impact of digital disruption on young people, the rhetoric of soft skills and challenges to the notion of careers, which can no longer be coupled with the idea of a linear pathway to a traditional occupation.

Micro-surveys of school student attitudes have shown creative, careers-focused learning programs build aspirations and confidence in science and mathematics. This report recommends early interventions to develop students’ understandings of career pathways in secondary school, with a focus on the applicability of subject knowledge across a wide range of potential careers.

This research project interrogates the experiences of people working in the creative and cultural industries - who spent significant time in the Australian community broadcasting sector. Examining the impact of community broadcasting participation on career pathways recognises the historical role that community radio stations have played in shaping the Australian media landscape.