One-to-one time is the best thing your careers team does, and the scarcest. Nexties Classroom gives every Year 9 to 13 student something personal running alongside it, all year, and gives your team a view across the whole cohort. See where your school sits today.
Most careers programmes are a mix. Some whole-cohort delivery, an events week, a module, a drop-in clinic, and then one-to-one time for the students who need more. The one-to-one is where the personal work happens, and it is rationed by definition. Another advisor buys you more appointments. It doesn’t make the months in between any more personal.
The students who go quiet are usually the ones who’d get the most out of it. Some don’t rate themselves highly enough to ask. Some can’t picture a path like that belonging to someone like them. They pick subjects on half a picture, and nobody finds out until it’s too late to change.
When the board asks how careers is tracking, the answer usually lives in one person’s head. That’s hard enough to report on, and it walks out the door the day they do.
Nexties Classroom runs alongside your careers team. Every Year 9 to 13 student gets their own space to work out what they’re good at, what they’re into, and where either of those could take them. It keeps going between sessions, so the student who’d never book a meeting is still moving, and your team can see who has stalled while there’s still time to do something about it.
It’s also close to what the Career Development Benchmarks describe as Highly Effective. Most schools self-review at Adequate or Consolidating, and it’s rarely about effort. Highly Effective asks for whole-school, evidenced and distributed, which is a lot to build by hand.
A student opens this and just gets on with it. Everything they do in here is what your cohort reporting is built from.
Cohort data and student portfolios you can put straight in front of the SLT or ERO. It builds as the year goes, so nobody is assembling it the week before.
Every student, all year, at their own pace. Their profile grows from Year 9 onward rather than starting from scratch each time someone runs a quiz.
Deans, form teachers and the SLT see the same picture as the careers office. The programme keeps running when one person is away, or gone.
Links subjects and credits to real destinations, and speaks NCEA and Vocational Pathways from day one.
This isn’t about saving your team time. It’s about making the time they already have reach every student, not only the ones who book in.
Nothing about it feels like a form, so students don’t answer it like one. The more they tell it, the more useful it gets back, and that’s what keeps them going.
The profile a student starts in Year 9 is the same one they open at seventeen picking a course, at twenty-five thinking about a change, and at thirty-four coming back to study. Your school starts something that keeps working long after they’ve left it.
Every student and every school deserves this level of personalised guidance, so the base version of Nexties Classroom is free. Book your onboarding call and we’ll get everything in place before your students start using it.
The Base tier is genuinely free, and it stays free at least through to the end of 2027. Getting Nexties Classroom into as many schools as possible matters more to us right now than charging for it. The wider system benefits when students find pathways that fit, providers and industry included, and that’s where our funding comes from, rather than from school budgets or families. Schools that want the deeper careers-development tools can add Plus for a fixed annual cost, but nothing in the free tier is time-limited or held back to push you towards it.
One thing that will never fund it: selling student data. That isn’t on the table now and won’t be later.
A student who starts in Year 9 leaves with five years of it behind them. Start them in Year 12 and they get a fraction of that. There’s no budget to find and nothing to sign.
