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Plan own career path within the furniture manufacturing industry
Level
2
Credits
2
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to plan own career path
within the furniture manufacturing industry.
Subfield
Furniture
Domain
Furniture Operations
Status
Registered
Status date
19 June 2009
Date version published
19 June 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Competenz
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0173
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
This unit standard must be assessed against on-job.
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Definition
Long-term career goal refers to a career goal that requires the learning of additional
skills and knowledge beyond those required for the candidate’s current position.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Plan own career path within the furniture manufacturing industry.
Performance criteria
1.1
One career option available within the candidate’s furniture workplace is
identified.
1.2
Three career options available in the wider industry that use furniture
manufacturing skills and knowledge are identified.
Range
1.3
A long-term career goal is selected from the options identified in performance
criteria 1.1 or 1.2, and skills and knowledge required for that job are described.
Range
1.4
may include but is not limited to – working in furniture industry
roles such as team leader, quality specialist, factory supervisor,
production scheduler / planner, production engineer, computer
numerical controlled machine programmer, furniture designer,
restorer, upholsterer, furniture finisher; working in associated
industries such as carpentry, joinery, marine interiors, motor
homes, commercial building fitments, interior design, design
engineering.
a minimum of two practical skills and a minimum of two areas of
theoretical knowledge.
A career pathway to achieve the long-term career goal selected in performance
criterion 1.3 is determined.
Range
identification of a minimum of one qualification that provides
training relevant to the long term career goal, description of the
type of industry work experience required to learn the practical job
skills, approximate timeframes required to complete the identified
qualification or qualifications.
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.
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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 Competenz info@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to
the content of this unit standard.
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