About Us
Career Central
Career Central was born in 2012 when Sue Hancock (a New Zealand secondary school careers advisor) joined forces with a savvy student (Tim Hampton) to design and develop a career management system for the school. Today Career Central has grown from a simple file-maker programme to a fully comprehensive web-based career management system.
Bulls-Eye
Bulls-Eye was established in 2012 when Kate McBeath (an HR professional) saw a need for a low-cost, digital career assessment for young people. Initially, Bulls-Eye partnered with schools around New Zealand to offer the Future Pathways Assessment tool. In 2016 Kate started working with schools in Australia to pilot and adapt the tool to best suit Australian students.
Our Partnership
In 2018 Career Central and Bulls-Eye formed a partnership to provide integrated career management and assessment solutions for secondary schools. We currently work with over 130 secondary schools (in New Zealand and Australia) and have over 150,000 student users on the platform.
Sue Hancock – Director, Career Central
Sue holds an undergraduate degree in Science with a Graduate Diploma in Teaching from the University of Waikato, as well as a Graduate certificate in Career Development from Auckland University of Technology. Sue has 25 years’ experience in education with eight years’ experience in career guidance.
Kate McBeath – Director, Bulls-Eye
Kate holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology & Management and a post-graduate Diploma in Business (HRM) from The University of Auckland. Prior to setting up Bulls-Eye, Kate spent 15 years working in consulting, organisational development and human resources in a number of local and international businesses.
Support Team
Career Central has the backing of a small team of developers and support staff at their base in Matamata, New Zealand. In addition, in Australia, we partner with Wonde (for school data connection) and Amazon Web Services (for server hosting).
Australia
In 2019 we worked closely with a fantastic group of Queensland schools to trial Career Central’s web-based Career Management System in the Australian education sector. Our trial schools helped us to understand the functionality that was most valuable in Australia, and their feedback and encouragement has enabled us to customise the platform to provide an online Career Programme for Y9 to Y12 students in Australia.
Partner Schools:
- All Hallows’ School, Queensland
- Baulkham Hills High School, New South Wales
- Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, Queensland
- Hillcrest Christian College, Queensland
- Iona College, Queensland
- Kings’ Christian College, Queensland
- Lourdes Hill College, Queensland
- Marist Ashgrove College, Queensland
- Redeemer Lutheran College, Queensland
- Saint Stephens’ College, Queensland
- Somerville House, Queensland
- St Andrew’s Lutheran College, Queensland
- St John’s Anglican College, Queensland
- St Laurence’s College, Queensland
- St Peter’s College, South Australia
Our data is stored on servers on Australia’s Amazon Web Services platform.
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