Just before leaving EmployNZ, Faafouina sat down with us for an interview about her pathway. Before we started, she offered to write the article herself. What follows is Faafouina’s story, in her own words.

Sitting behind the lighting desk at Baycourt theatre, seventeen year old Krystal Dance walks us through her pathway from homeschooling to an emerging career in the creative industries.

Only seventeen, Jason Ford has already found his calling in the kitchen. We sat down with him to talk about his time studying at EmployNZ and Toi Ohomai, and his new job as a chef at Harbourside restaurant in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty.