New guide gives service careers kick-start
For the first time, a comprehensive new guide that introduces young Kiwis to the many career opportunities in New
Zealand’s booming service industry has been published by ServiceIQ, Industry Training Organisation (ITO) for tourism and
travel, retail and retail supply chain, hospitality, aviation, and museums service sectors.
Service Career Kick-Starter was launched to the whole of the country via the Sunday Star Times at the end of October.
It’s packed full of helpful information, case studies, sector profiles, statistics, job and career paths, and real
success stories with just a few of the thousands of talented young New Zealanders gaining an education and industry
qualifications on the job, including up-and-coming pilots, aviation engineers, chefs, tour guides, retail managers,
museum curators and more.
The well-established industry sectors offer serious opportunities in which to gain an education, real skills, national
qualifications and a career, and achieving it all on the job, earning as you learn.
In fact, around 35 percent of all new job opportunities between 2017 and 2021 are in the sectors ServiceIQ serves.
ServiceIQ Chief Executive Dean Minchington says it’s an essential guide to discovering what’s possible and getting a
career underway.
“The sectors we serve hold a huge range of possibilities for many young New Zealanders, including secondary school
students considering what to do with their life. While university and polytechnic work for some people, for those people
who excel at learning by doing, our sectors offer the chance to train on the job, qualify and build a career.”
Service Career Kick-Starter can be downloaded from www.ServiceIQ.org.nz/kick-start