You don’t need the whole map. Just a direction worth exploring.

Choose a role as a hypothesis. Check the work it involves, the experience you can bring and the conditions it needs to meet.

Start with tasks you want to do

Write down two or three occasions when your contribution mattered. What were you doing: organising, explaining, investigating, supporting, negotiating or making something? Include examples outside paid employment.

Compare a few possibilities

Find two or three role descriptions that use those capabilities. For each, compare the everyday tasks, required qualifications, location and working pattern. Look for repeated requirements across employers. A job title alone is weak evidence of the work.

If you need ideas in New Zealand, Tahatu Career Navigator offers occupation and pathway information. Elsewhere, start with your local public careers service. Job descriptions help establish requirements; they do not prove that a role is accessible to you.

Make one move concrete

Choose the role with the clearest connection to your evidence and constraints. If a requirement is uncertain, your next action might be checking it with the employer or professional body. No course purchase is needed to do that.