Presentation to the Collaboration the new black conference, Saturday 9th September 2012

1. A Car eer Capable
Auckland
Business and government
collaborate

2. Who are we?
• Fuji Xerox New Zealand
• Careers New Zealand
• Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern)
• Business New Zealand
• Other key supporters
» Albany Senior High School
» Auckland Council
» Auckland University of Technology

3. What motivated us?
- Fuji Xerox
• Strong, kind and interesting corporate philosophy
• Human capital/skills shortage is real issue
• Passionate Managing Director – Neil Whittaker
• Commoditised market
• Demonstrate our commitment to the sector
• Demonstrate our passion for leadership
• Create a tangible way for us to differentiate ourselves

4. What motivated us?
– Careers New Zealand
• A strategic need to coordinate a fractured sector
• Reducing poor student transitions
• Education and business not connecting well
• A chance to work with business and industry and talk
about career development
• A chance to focus on creating a career capable Auckland

5. The purpose of our collaboration
• Auckland needs to provide enhanced and coordinated career
development services in order for it to achieve its full potential
• Career development is the way organisation’s and individuals
align to meet the strategic goals of the organisation and the
personal career goals of the individual
• We believe that there are significant social and economic
gains to be had for Auckland
• We felt young New Zealanders could get a better deal from
the system
• Fix a real business problem

6. Three initial projects
• A study as to the economic cost of poor student
transitions by Professor Erling Rasmussen, AUT
• A careers blueprint for Auckland
• My Career Portfolio

7. What processes did we follow?
• Use of the Capable Auckland network
• Socialised our goal and talked to lots of leaders
• Identified core partners with shared values
• Looked for a practical response
• Regular meetings
• Upfront about what each party is looking to achieve
• Heads of agreement to clarify roles

8. What problems did we face?
• Some false leads
• Taken us longer to get started than we thought
• Size and scope of our study
• We thought we had to spend more time convincing
people rather than completing something practical
• Trying to identify our zone of operation within a
fragmented “market”
• Keeping momentum – formal meeting, juggling busy
diaries

9. What comes next?
• Launches in November
• Inviting other corporates to participate in this area and
through the ideas of the blueprint
• Trialling of the My Career Space in South Auckland
schools in 2013