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Define, examine, source, and select career interventions

Level / 4
Credits / 3

PurposePeople 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

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, home-based enterprise, study as an adult, and unemployment. A careeris 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 careerrelated service who may be individuals or groups associated with employment, education, or training, or in some cases may be an organisation.

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

1.1The term intervention is defined in terms of its use in the context of careers.

1.2Career intervention strategies are identified in terms of the career consultation process.

Rangeevidence of two strategies are required.

Element 2

Source and select career interventions.

Rangeevidence is required for two different interventions with a different target group for each.

Performance criteria

2.1Sources of career interventions are identified in terms of their availability for career development and meeting clients needs.

2.2Career interventions are selected for different target groups and contexts.

Element 3

Establish the purpose of the career interventions.

Performance criteria

3.1The purpose and outcomes of the selected career interventions are identified in relation to the client.

3.2The 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.

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 if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.

 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018