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Undertake professional development as a career practitioner
Level
4
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and source
professional development activities as a career practitioner; participate in
professional development activities as a career practitioner; and evaluate the
professional development activities.
Subfield
Career Practice
Domain
Career Education
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
1
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the: Privacy Act
1993, Human Rights Act 1993, Education Act 1989.
2
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.
Practitioner refers to a specialist who gives expert career advice or information.
Professional development activities refer to peer review, professional supervision,
professional association membership, links with professional associations, continuing
education, conference attendance and self-review.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify and source professional development activities as a career practitioner.
Performance criteria
1.1
Professional development activities identified meet the needs and
circumstances of the career practitioner.
1.2
Identified professional development activities accessed meet the identified
need, goals, and circumstances of the career practitioner.
1.3
Identified professional development activities are evaluated in terms of the
identified needs, goals, and circumstances of the career practitioner.
Element 2
Participate in professional development activities as a career practitioner.
Performance criteria
2.1
Professional development activities selected meet the identified needs and
goals of the career practitioner.
2.2
Professional development activities completed meet the needs of the career
practitioner.
Element 3
Evaluate the professional development activities.
Performance criteria
3.1
Evaluation examines the professional development activities in terms of the
needs and attainment of identified professional development goals of the career
practitioner.
3.2
Evaluation examines the professional development activities in terms of the
identified purpose of the activity.
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.
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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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