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Describe influences on career choices of Māori and provide career
consultation to Māori clients
Level
6
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify the influences on
individual career choices of Māori clients; establish rapport and identify
needs of Māori clients in career practice; assist Māori clients to clarify life and
career goals; and involve whānau of Māori clients in the career practice
process.
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 13122, unit
standard 13123, unit standard 13124, and unit standard
13125.
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.
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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.
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.
Education may include training.
He wāhi mahana, refers to a welcoming comfortable environment.
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.
Whakapapa refers to genealogy.
Whānau refers to family in the broad sense.
Work options refer to contractual, portfolio, self-employment, salaried, wages, fulltime, part-time, and voluntary.
2
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
Identify the influences on individual career choices of Māori clients.
Performance criteria
1.1
The iwi and tangata whenua within a given geographical area are identified in
terms of their influence on career choices of Māori clients.
1.2
The historical changes in career choices of Māori are identified in terms of their
influence on contemporary choices of Māori clients.
Range
1.3
changing dynamics of the whānau, urban and rural migration, the
principles of The Treaty of Waitangi.
Employment trends, and economic and social factors are identified in terms of
their influence on career choices of Māori clients.
Element 2
Establish rapport and identify needs of Māori clients in career practice.
Performance criteria
2.1
The environment and systems for provision of consultation focus on the clients
in accordance with their personal, cultural, physical, spiritual, and
communication needs.
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2.2
Rapport is established in career consultation in terms of the physical and
emotional needs of the client.
Range
rapport – greeting, welcome, encouragement given; whānau ties;
knowledge of client’s background.
2.3
The needs of Māori clients are identified in terms of cultural influence on their
background; language; access to and funding for education; and access to
employment.
2.4
Goals for the career consultation are established with Māori clients in terms of
limits, expectations, and plan of session.
2.5
Interactions with Māori clients during career consultation demonstrates active
listening, use of questioning techniques, and use of body language in
accordance with cultural and language needs.
2.6
The approach used in career consultation with Māori clients meets their
personal and cultural needs.
Range
approach includes but is not limited to – the establishment of
commonalities, whakapapa, non-judgmental attitudes, respect of
person, use of familiar examples, respect for values, respect of
boundaries, he wāhi mahana, active listening.
Element 3
Assist Māori clients to clarify life and career goals.
Performance criteria
3.1
Information on current research, work patterns, and labour market trends is
provided to Māori clients in accordance with their needs.
3.2
Work options are identified with Māori clients in terms of their strengths, skills,
needs, expectations, and preferences.
3.3
Selected work options are explored and prioritised in terms of their needs and
expectations, and the needs and expectations of family and community if
applicable.
3.4
Education and vocational goals are formulated with Māori clients that are
achievable, and realistic for the clients in terms of time, funding, access,
location, and academic ability.
3.5
Alternative strategies to achieve vocational and educational goals are explored
in accordance with the needs of Māori clients.
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3.6
Referral of Māori clients is in accordance with their identified needs and goals.
Range
referral includes but is not limited to – employments, education,
other agencies, other services.
Element 4
Involve whānau of Māori clients in the career practice process.
Performance criteria
4.1
Alternative strategies to achieve identified educational and vocational goals are
introduced to whānau, where required, in accordance with the needs of Māori
clients.
4.2
Work options are evaluated in terms of the values and needs of whānau and
community, and the needs of Māori 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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