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Define, examine, source, and select career interventions
Level
4
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to define and examine,
source and select, and establish the purpose of career interventions.
Subfield
Career Practice
Domain
Career Development Theory
Status
Registered
Status date
20 November 2009
Date version published
20 November 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
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
Definitions
Availability, in the context of career intervention, refers to the selection and sourcing
of interventions for clients whether the career practitioner is at, or away from their
work-base or office.
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 intervention is the process used to assist clients to develop career plans and
includes career education, career guidance, and career counselling.
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.
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Needs are those relating to gender, culture, ethnic background, age, learning,
disability, socio-economic group, and language.
Target group refers to a specific population group or groups intended as beneficiaries
of a programme.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Define and examine career interventions.
Performance criteria
1.1
The term intervention is defined in terms of its use in the context of careers.
1.2
Career intervention strategies are identified in terms of the career consultation
process.
Range
evidence of two strategies are required.
Element 2
Source and select career interventions.
Range
evidence is required for two different interventions with a different target group
for each.
Performance criteria
2.1
Sources of career interventions are identified in terms of their availability for
career development and meeting clients needs.
2.2
Career interventions are selected for different target groups and contexts.
Element 3
Establish the purpose of the career interventions.
Performance criteria
3.1
The purpose and outcomes of the selected career interventions are identified in
relation to the client.
3.2
The expected benefits of the selected career intervention are described in terms
of the achievement of career goals and the individual needs of the client.
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.
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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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