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Assist clients to develop and implement career plans
Level
5
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: assist clients in the
development of a career plan; assist clients to implement their career plan;
provide support to the client and document process through reports and the
maintenance of records; and evaluate the implementation of the career
plans.
Subfield
Career Practice
Domain
Career Consultation
Status
Registered
Status date
20 November 2009
Date version published
20 November 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 13121.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
The Skills Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0121
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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Definitions
Career refers to the wide range of occupational, family, civic, and political roles which
individuals will undertake throughout their adult lives. It includes paid employment,
self-employment, unpaid work, multiple jobbing, entrepreneurial enterprise, homebased enterprise, study as an adult, and unemployment. A career is a
developmental and lifelong process.
Career practice refers to the umbrella profession under which the following vocations
sit – career resources, career information, career education, and career consultation
which includes career counselling, career advice, and career guidance.
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Client refers to people receiving a career related service who may be individuals or
groups, associated with employment, education, or training, or in some cases may be
an organisation.
Ethical practice refers to the code of practice as defined in the constitution of an
established career practice association or organisation, for example, the Career
Practitioner Association of New Zealand.
External influences refer to the world of work, economics, accessibility, geography,
and politics.
Internal administration and reporting external requirements refer to the administration
and reporting requirements included in the policy and/or procedures of the
organisation that the practitioner is representing, or of which the client is a customer.
Needs, in the context of this unit standard, are those relating to gender, culture,
Māori, ethnicity, age, religion, philosophy, learning, disability, socio-economic group,
career options, and language.
Practitioner refers to a specialist who gives expert advice or information.
Reports refer to learning and career plans, full career plan, action plan, assessment
report, and references.
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the: Privacy Act
1993, Human Rights Act 1993.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Assist clients in the development of a career plan.
Performance criteria
1.1
Client needs are identified in the context of developing a career plan.
1.2
A decision-making model is selected in terms of its application to the
development of career plans and in accordance with the identified needs of an
individual client.
1.3
Options in career planning are identified and introduced in terms of their
respective advantages and disadvantages to the client, and their family, and
their community.
1.4
The client is assisted to interpret their career history in terms of its impact on the
development of a career plan.
1.5
Options in career planning are analysed with the client in accordance with the
selected decision-making model.
1.6
Techniques for assessing and clarifying the client's values and beliefs are
demonstrated in accordance with the selected decision-making model.
1.7
The career plan constructed by the practitioner and the client takes into account
external influences and needs of the individual client.
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1.8
The career plan is modified and adjusted in accordance with the needs and
situation of the client.
Element 2
Assist clients to implement their career plan.
Performance criteria
2.1
The environment in which assistance is provided is safe, comfortable, and
secure for all parties.
2.2
Assistance provided to the client is in accordance with their needs, safe ethical
practice, and legislative requirements.
2.3
The family of the client is assisted to support them to implement their career
plan in terms of the needs of the client, if appropriate.
Range
support may include but is not limited to – study, welfare,
application processes, geographic issues, access to funding.
2.4
The progress of the client in implementation of their career plan is monitored in
accordance with the context, the needs of the client.
2.5
Client’s queries and/or questions are responded to in accordance with the
context, the needs of the clients, and legislative requirements.
Element 3
Provide support to the client and document process through reports and the maintenance
of records.
Performance criteria
3.1
Support and follow-up to the client is provided in accordance with the career
plan.
3.2
Reports are produced in accordance with the needs of the clients, and with
internal administration and external reporting requirements.
3.3
Records are established and maintained in accordance with the needs of the
clients, and with internal administration and external record keeping
requirements.
Element 4
Evaluate the implementation of the career plans.
Performance criteria
4.1
The support provided for the career implementation process is evaluated in
terms of the individual needs of the clients.
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4.2
The support provided is evaluated in terms of ethical and professional practice.
4.3
Feedback from clients is evaluated in terms of the established purpose and
outcome of the career plan.
4.4
The outcomes of the implementation of the career plans are evaluated in terms
of the client’s defined goals and expectations.
4.5
Follow-up action is evaluated in accordance with the outcomes of the career
plan implementation and feedback from the clients.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact The Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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