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Analyse and apply labour market trends, employment patterns, work
availability, and occupation groups
Level
6
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to analyse and apply labour
market trends, employment patterns, work availability, and occupation groups
and clusters.
Subfield
Career Practice
Domain
Career Information
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
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Definitions
Career intervention is the process used to assist clients to develop career plans and
includes career education, career guidance, and career counselling.
Employment patterns refer to contracted work, self-employment, and employment
within different types of organisations – large, small, multi-national, divisional.
Work is the effort to produce goods and services that are valued, needed or wanted,
and paid or unpaid.
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the: Privacy Act
1993, Human Rights Act 1993, Employment Relations Act 2000, Education Act 1989,
Equal Pay Act 1972, Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and Consumer
Guarantees Act 1993.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Analyse and apply labour market trends, employment patterns, and work availability.
Performance criteria
1.1
Labour market trends are analysed in relation to the global market and applied
to career interventions.
1.2
Employment patterns and work availability are analysed nationally and by local
regions and applied to career interventions.
1.3
Employment opportunities within New Zealand are analysed in terms of gender
differences and applied to career interventions.
1.4
Social and economic factors affecting employment are analysed in terms of their
influence on work and life choices and applied to career interventions.
Element 2
Analyse occupation groups and clusters and apply to career interventions.
Range
occupational clusters may include but are not limited to – mangers,
professionals, technicians and trade workers, community and personal services
workers, clerical and administrative works, sales workers, machinery operations
and drivers, labourers;
evidence is required for three occupational clusters.
Performance criteria
2.1
Occupation groups and clusters are analysed in terms of the categories
developed by career development theories and applied to career interventions.
Range
2..2
examples of career development theories may include but are not
limited to – trait and factor theories, developmental theories,
career decision-making theories, social learning theories,
emerging theories;
evidence is required for two theories.
The generic skill and knowledge requirements are analysed in terms of
occupation groups and clusters and applied to career interventions.
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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