Outward Bound and ED&EM have recently been collaborating to help some South Auckland students. You may have heard about Outward Bound, a personal development organisation offering various courses to support youth as they look beyond school.

Late in 2020, Leah was helping her dad out at a warehouse and not getting paid. Her WINZ case manager suggested she go on the CadetMax training course. Leah had never applied for a job and didn’t feel confident in what to say in an interview, but she knew she had to learn more to achieve a dream of being an engineer someday.

Sri arrived in New Zealand in 2016 from a small town in India. He came in search of a better education and life and was excited about the opportunity. What he wasn’t prepared for was the cultural shock of being in a new country and found everything very difficult, the education system, ideas, thinking were nothing like he was used to.

Whakatane CadetMaxers Wynta, Tihi, Dayna, Lyric and Ethan discover a new career with the District Council. New experiences, new skills and protecting the environment. Great work team.

Max Leuila is building a successful career in the plumbing industry thanks to help from the Tāmaki Jobs & Skills Hub.

Natasha needed to restart her career after being unemployed for over a year. She was planning the big move across the ditch to Australia because she had lost many people in her life and she felt she had no life here in New Zealand.

When the Prime Minister wanted a success story for the Government’s newest on-the-job training scheme Mana in Mahi, she couldn’t go past one of our very own CadetMaxers!