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Describe influences on career choices and provide career consultation
to Pacific Island clients
Level
6
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify the influences on
career choices of individual Pacific clients; establish rapport and identify
needs of Pacific Island clients in career practice; assist Pacific clients to
clarify life and career goals; and involve the family of Pacific 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 13126, unit
standard 13127, unit standard 13128, unit standard
13129, and unit standard 13130.
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.
Needs, are those relating to gender, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, philosophy,
learning, disability, socio-economic group, career options, and language.
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 career choices of individual Pacific Island clients.
Performance criteria
1.1
The Pacific Island community within a given geographical area is identified in
terms of its influence on career choices of Pacific Island clients.
1.2
The influence of historical changes in the career choices of Pacific Island clients
is identified.
Range
1.3
changing dynamics of the family, community, place of origin of
client or family.
Employment trends, and economic, and social factors are identified in terms of
their influence on career choices of Pacific Island clients.
Element 2
Establish rapport and identify needs of Pacific Island clients in career practice.
Performance criteria
2.1
The environment and systems for provision of consultation focus on Pacific
Island clients in accordance with their personal, cultural, physical, spiritual, and
communication needs.
2.2
Rapport is established in career consultation in terms of the physical and
emotional needs of Pacific Island clients.
Range
rapport – greeting, welcome, encouragement given.
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2.3
Goals for the career consultation are established with Pacific Island clients in
terms of limits, expectations, and plan of session.
2.4
The needs of Pacific Island clients are identified in terms of their origins,
gender, age group, status, and birthplace.
2.5
The effects that the origins of Pacific Island clients have on career choices are
described in terms of career choices of clients.
Range
evidence is required for three effects.
2.6
The needs of Pacific Island clients are identified in terms of cultural influence on
their background; language; access to and funding for education; and access to
employment.
2.7
Interactions with clients during career consultation demonstrate active listening,
use of questioning techniques, and use of body language in accordance with
cultural and language needs.
2.8
The approach used in career consultation with Pacific Island clients meets their
personal and cultural needs.
Range
approach includes but is not limited to – the establishment of
commonalities, non-judgmental attitudes, respect of person, use of
familiar examples, respect for the values, respect of boundaries,
active listening.
Element 3
Assist Pacific Island clients to clarify life and career goals.
Performance criteria
3.1
Information is provided to the clients of current research, work patterns, and
labour market trends, in accordance with the needs of the Pacific Island clients.
3.2
Work options are identified with Pacific Island 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 Pacific Island 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 Pacific Island clients.
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3.6
Referral of Pacific Island clients is in accordance with identified needs and
goals.
Range
referral includes but is not limited to – employment, education,
government agencies, and other services.
Element 4
Involve the family of Pacific Island clients in the career practice process.
Performance criteria
4.1
Alternative strategies to achieve identified educational and vocational goals are
introduced to family, where required, in accordance with the needs of Pacific
Island clients.
4.2
Work options are evaluated in terms of the values and needs of family and
community, and the needs of Pacific Island 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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