Website and brand design to connect youth with the world of work

Workchoice Trust are New Zealand’s longest-standing charity focussed on youth employment, engaging with hundreds of schools and business nationwide each year. Since inception they have seen over 160,000 participants in Workchoice programmes.

Illuminate By Design has supported the Workchoice teams marketing functions from branding and marketing materials to the extensive website development.

Several events are held nationwide each year from Auckland to Christchurch, with students and careers advisors attending a day of industry talks and workplace exposure. The website has a bespoke backend development, programmed to match Schools with Companies, creating itineraries of the days activities and populating participant details and profiles.

Illuminate By Design worked closely with the Trust team to evolve their internal working process through the website development project. Some grey hairs and midnight hours were spent, but we replaced them after the launch. Three years later, the Workchoice system is still able to respond to changing work styles and new opportunities for students to explore workplace opportunities.

Clients comments

The Workchoice website was a very particular piece of bespoke web development as we needed a very complex back end system to support our work with schools and companies nationwide. It involved a total website redevelopment of an outdated system, transferring complex data and thorough testing of several modules. Added to this was very different customer journeys for our variety of users – this was one challenging project indeed!

The Illuminate By Design team offered Workchoice Trust a simple solution and worked with us to tidy up multiple internal processes and streamline the way we work. The project was delivered professionally and its functionality was perfect. An added bonus for us is that the new system is robust enough for changes to be made with ease and our clients are thrilled with its user friendliness. Thanks Brett and his team!

Amanda Wheeler – CEO – Workchoice Trust