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This research project investigates employability needs in a shifting technological environment by interviewing students, alumni, and industry experts to map perceptions, opportunities, challenges, and requirements. 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This is particularly the case for emergent professions such as Creative Technologies, given the changing nature of technology and the value as well as the challenges of working across traditional disciplines. This paper presents a research project that seeks to help fresh creative technologists get better work opportunities ina changing landscape. Students, alumni, and industry experts were interviewed to identify current perceptions and practices, opportunities and challenges, and to generate insights that inform the design of future solutions. Three themes were identified from these interviews: unexplored existing opportunities, a demand for employability skills, and the need for better student-industry interactions. The first refers to opportunities that may already be available but lack sufficient recognition or need more visibility. The second points to the need of an ongoing dialogue between academia and industry to identify the changing landscape of skills in demand. The third highlights the need for creative collaborations across sectors and actors to increase the interaction between students and potential employers. The insights from this study inform the aspects that need to be addressed to design solutions that help Creative Technologies graduates start their careers in the right directions. The research raises new questions about why and how universities in the future can engage stakeholders to make the most of existing untapped opportunities and restructure processes to align with changing demands in industry.  \nKeywords  \nCreative Technologies, Employability, Research through Design  \nIntroduction and Background  \nThe influence of digital technologies is increasing as evidenced by terms such as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (Schwab, 2017) . This calls for technologists with advanced creative and transdisciplinary skillsets. The field of ‘Creative Technologies’ (Creative Tech) aims to prepare graduates who integrate practices and knowledge from various disciplines ranging from Computer Science, Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Fine Arts (Connor, 2016) . This makes Creative Tech professionals prepared to go beyond traditional roles (Connor & Sosa, 2018; Giri, 2002) with the intention to generate new ideas and concepts and implement them into working solutions by bringing together a diverse set of skills across a range of technologies. In the short term, however, recent Creative Tech graduates can find it challenging to find career opportunities inside and beyond the creative industries where they can apply and continue to hone these transversal skills (Hearn et al., 2014; De Freitas and Almendra, 2021) .  \nThis study seeks to inform a design-led project to support the employability of recent graduates of Creative Technologies in Aotearoa New Zealand. The research originates from an identified need to better prepare work-ready graduates and connect them to industry, and an awareness of the challenges and limitations of conventional responses to enhance employability (Cranmer, 2006; Trevelyan, 2019) . Graduate profiles of university programs in Creative Tech are typically oriented towards creative and critical uses of technology (Connor & Sosa, 2018) . The Creative Tech skillset includes advanced technical skills across hardware and software platforms, collaborative teamwork capacities across specialties, creative prototyping, and a user-centred ethos to designing new technologies (Russel et al., 2008; Giri, 2002) . 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