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Develop and maintain links, partnerships, and networks in the career
industry and community
Level
5
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and maintain
existing links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the
community; develop and maintain existing links, partnerships, and networks
in the career industry and the community; and record and review links,
partnerships and networks in the career industry and the community.
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.
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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.
Links refer to school to industry, school to school, school to tertiary provider, tertiary
provider to industry, tertiary provider to tertiary provider.
Networks refer to career data bases, Internet, national and regional associations,
employer associations, professional associations, major stakeholders, New Zealand
Employment Service, Career Services.
Partnerships are school to industry, school to school, school to tertiary provider,
tertiary provider to industry, tertiary provider to tertiary provider, schools and tertiary
providers to funding bodies.
Practitioner refers to a specialist who gives expert career advice or information.
Tertiary provider refers to all organisations delivering education and/or training
primarily in the post school sector.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Identify and maintain existing links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and
the community.
Performance criteria
1.1
Existing links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the
community are identified in terms of their application to career practice.
1.2
Existing links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the
community are maintained in accordance with the needs of the career
practitioner and clients.
Element 2
Develop and maintain links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the
community.
Performance criteria
2.1
Contact is established and maintained with existing links and partnerships in the
career industry and the community, in accordance with the needs of the career
practitioner and clients.
2.2
New links, partnerships, and networks are identified and examined in terms of
their relevance to the needs of the career practitioner and clients.
2.3
New links, partnerships, and networks developed in the career industry and the
community meet the needs of the career practitioner and clients.
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2.4
Links, partnerships, and networks are maintained in accordance with the needs
of the career practitioner and clients.
Element 3
Record and review links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the
community.
Performance criteria
3.1
Records maintained of links, partnerships, and networks meet the needs of
legislation, the organisation, career practitioner, and external bodies, where
applicable.
3.2
Links, partnerships, and networks in the career industry and the community are
reviewed in terms of their role in meeting the needs of clients and career
practitioner.
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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