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Describe influences on career choices and provide career consultation to PacificIsland clients

Level / 6
Credits / 10

PurposePeople credited with this unit standard are able to: identify the influences on career choices of individual Pacific clients; establish rapport and identify needs of Pacific Island clients in career practice; assist Pacific clients to clarify life and career goals; and involve the family of Pacific clients in the career practice process.

Subfield / Career Practice
Domain / Career Consultation
Status / Registered
Status date / 20 November 2009
Date version published / 20 November 2009
Planned review date / 31 December 2013
Entry information / Open.
Replacement information / This unit standard replaced unit standard 13126, unit standard 13127, unit standard 13128, unit standard 13129, and unit standard 13130.
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

1Definitions

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. Acareeris a developmental and lifelong process.

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 careerrelated service who may be individuals or groups, associated with employment, education, or training, or in some cases may be an organisation.

Education may include training.

Needs, are those relating to gender, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, philosophy, learning, disability, socio-economic group, career options, and language.

Work options refer to contractual, portfolio, self-employment, salaried, wages, full-time, part-time, and voluntary.

2Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the: Privacy Act 1993, Human Rights Act 1993.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Identify the influences on career choices of individual PacificIsland clients.

Performance criteria

1.1The Pacific Island community within a given geographical area is identified in terms of its influence on career choices of PacificIsland clients.

1.2The influence of historical changes in the career choices of PacificIsland clients is identified.

Rangechanging dynamics of the family, community, place of origin of client or family.

1.3Employment trends, and economic, and social factors are identified in terms of their influence on career choices of PacificIsland clients.

Element 2

Establish rapport and identify needs of PacificIsland clients in career practice.

Performance criteria

2.1The environment and systems for provision of consultation focus on PacificIsland clients in accordance with their personal, cultural, physical, spiritual, and communication needs.

2.2Rapport is established in career consultation in terms of the physical and emotional needs of PacificIsland clients.

Rangerapport – greeting, welcome, encouragement given.

2.3Goals for the career consultation are established with PacificIsland clients in terms of limits, expectations, and plan of session.

2.4The needs of PacificIsland clients are identified in terms of their origins, gender, age group, status, and birthplace.

2.5The effects that the origins of PacificIsland clients have on career choices are described in terms of career choices of clients.

Rangeevidence is required for three effects.

2.6The needs of PacificIsland clients are identified in terms of cultural influence on their background; language; access to and funding for education; and access to employment.

2.7Interactions with clients during career consultation demonstrate active listening, use of questioning techniques, and use of body language in accordance with cultural and language needs.

2.8The approach used in career consultation with PacificIsland clients meets their personal and cultural needs.

Rangeapproach includes but is not limited to – the establishment of commonalities, non-judgmental attitudes, respect of person, use of familiar examples, respect for the values, respect of boundaries, active listening.

Element 3

AssistPacificIsland clients to clarify life and career goals.

Performance criteria

3.1Information is provided to the clients of current research, work patterns, and labour market trends, in accordance with the needs of the PacificIsland clients.

3.2Work options are identified with PacificIsland clients in terms of their strengths, skills, needs, expectations, and preferences.

3.3Selected work options are explored and prioritised in terms of their needs and expectations, and the needs and expectations of family and community if applicable.

3.4Education and vocational goals are formulated with PacificIsland clients that are achievable, and realistic for the clients in terms of time, funding, access, location, and academic ability.

3.5Alternative strategies to achieve vocational and educational goals are explored in accordance with the needs of PacificIsland clients.

3.6Referral of PacificIsland clients is in accordance with identified needs and goals.

Rangereferral includes but is not limited to – employment, education, government agencies, and other services.

Element 4

Involve the family of PacificIsland clients in the career practice process.

Performance criteria

4.1Alternative strategies to achieve identified educational and vocational goals are introduced to family, where required, in accordance with the needs of PacificIsland clients.

4.2Work options are evaluated in terms of the values and needs of family and community, and the needs of PacificIsland clients.

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

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