Certificate IV in Career Development. RMIT University©14/01/2014 School of Education 2 Outcomes Understand the nature of career development and how it.

Certificate IV in Career Development

RMIT University©10/04/23 School of Education 2

Outcomes

• Understand the nature of career development and how it might fit into your role

• Develop Individual Learning Plans for Certificate IV in Career Development and map RPL availability

• Negotiate assessment tasks for gap training, timeframes etc

• Explore career development theory and how it relates to own career and career of others

• Develop understanding of competencies required for career development work at SuniTAFE.

• Explore career development frameworks that provide a useful guide for your work

o Explore and practice advanced communication skills required for working from a “helping” perspective.


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Career Development – your role?

• What are your student career focussed activities?

– What do you assist them with?

– How do you assist them? What do you do?


Career Development – what is it?

• What does ‘career’ mean to you?

• What does ‘career’ mean to your students?

What do ‘advisors’ do? What is ‘guidance’?


Career definitions - Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners

• “ A lifestyle concept that involves the sequence of work, learning and leisure activites in which one engages throughout a lifetime. Careers are unique to each person and are a dynamic….Careers include how persons balance their paid and unpaid work.”

• Career Development

“The lifelong process of managing learning work, leisure and transitions in order to move towards a personally determined and evolving future”

Career Development Practitioner

“…facilitate the ability of clients to take charge of their own career career development by assisting them in the process of identifying and assessing resources,planning and managing for their career life-development.”


Career definitions - Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners

• Careers Guidance

– “A range of interventions including career education and counselling that help people to move from a general understanding of life and work to a specific understanding of the realistic learning and work options that are open to them.”

• Careers Adviser

– “Careers advisers provide a service that facilitates career decision making. In addition they provide timely and authoritative advice and information to students, colleagues and parents for use in school programs ( Career Advisers Association of New South Wales)


Focus of career development

“…facilitate the ability of clients to take charge of their own career career development by assisting them in the process of identifying and assessing

resources,planning and managing for their career life-development.”

• an ability to focus on who they are, what they have to offer and what is important to them

• Having direction - knowing options, what appeals to them and how to qualify for suitable learning and work opportunities

• Adaptability - the capacity of making the best of ever present change

• Healthy self esteem and self knowledge to counter uncertainty and doubt(Jarvis 2003)


Australian Standards for Careers Practitioners

• 1. Career development theory

• 2. Labour market

• 3. Advanced communication skills

• 4. Ethical practice

• 5. Diversity

• 6. Information and resource management

• 7. Professional practice

• Specialisations – Assessment,counselling, program delivery, working with people with disabities, project management and employer liaison.

http://www.cica.org.au/practitioners/standards

http://www.cica.org.au/practitioners/standards


Certificate IV in Career Development- the Competencies

Conduct career guidance interview

Assist clients to plan / access career pathways

Deliver services consistent with a career development framework

Use targeted communication skills to build relationships

Work within a legal and ethical framework

Analyse and apply labour market information

Analyse and apply education and training information

Maintain an effective work environment

Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers

Work effectively in the community sector

Operate referral procedures

Contribute to OHS processes

Facilitate links with other services

Provide job search support

Liaise with employers to provide flexible work arrangements

Establish and maintain effective networks

TAA/E – Provide training through instruction and demo of work skills

-Plan and organise group-based delivery

-Facilitate group based learning


Study process….

• Step 1 - Complete RPL Ready document– Brainstorm evidence– Identify gaps

• Step 2 – Learning and Assessment Plan– Details how competency requirements met

– RPL, Credit Transfer, Study & Assessment– Choose electives– Complete Credit Transfer process if required– Workplace assessment activities identified

• Step 3 – RPL or Study & Assessment– - follow your plan, access ACDS materials for gap training– Collect RPL evidence

Step 4 – Access support- email, Skype, phone etc

- Step 5 – Assessment ( have until November 2011 to complete)- RPL - -presentation of evidence and Iinterview questions to ascertain knowledge- Study & Assessment – send completed assessments via email


Using your experience – RPL Ready Completion Activity

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• What constitutes experience?

• What constitutes evidence?

• Evaluating your evidence

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Demonstrating competency ….

• RPL

– Providing evidence process

– Underpinning knowledge

• Gap training

– Australian Career Development Studies materials (ACDS)

– Workplace assessment tasks

– RMIT defined assessment tasks


6.3.1 Career development theory

• 6.3.1a Describe major career development theories

• 6.3.1b Apply career development theories to practice

• …also underpinning knowledge and skills for

–CHCCDP401B Deliver services consistent with a career development framework

–CHCCAR501B Conduct career guidance interview

–CHCCDP402B Assist clients to plan and access career pathways


“Who you are” is suited to particular work…

“Dr John Holland suggests that sound career decisions be based on an individual ﾕ s accurate knowledge of his or her personal modal orientation and accurate occupational knowledge. Without such knowledge, individuals are unable to base career decisions on congruent relationships between their personal orientations and their occupational environments.”

Career fit concept:

YOU

Your needs, values, abilities, skills, interests, and aspirations

OCCUPATION

The job’s demands and potential for satisfying your needs

MATCH



Holland Codes

THEME SAMPLE JOB TITLE CODE

REALISTIC Horticulturist REI INVESTIGATIVE Dentist IRS

ARTISTIC Librarian ACI

SOCIAL Secondary school teacher SIA

ENTERPRISING Industrial engineer EIR

CONVENTIONAL Bookkeeper CSR


Developmental Theories - careers develop over timeDonald Super 1954 -1990

Life Span Tasks

•Growth 5-14yrs- childhood exploration, role models,self awareness through play, future orientation

•Exploratory 15-24 yrs- narrow choices, education/training, vocational identity

•Establishment 25-35 yrs- employment, advancement for some

•Maintenance 35-65yrs- maybe evaluation before entering (minicycle), holding on, keeping up and innovation

•Decline/Disengagement 65yrs onwards- planning for retirement, workload reduction, eventual retirement

Life Span Life Space

Life Space Roles

Child

Student

“Leisurite”

Citizen

Worker

Spouse

Homemaker

Parent

Pensioner


Constructivist Approach- we create our career

Planned Happenstance

Exploration generates opportunities

Skills enable us to seize opportunities

Recognise, create and use chance

Psychological Resiliency Curiosity to explore

Persistence to deal with obstacles

Flexibility address events

Optimism maximise benefits from unplanned events

Risk taking

Indecision = open mindedness


Career Management Frameworks-Australian Blueprint for Career Development

"… need knowledge about themselves, and the capacity to connect with others. They need to learn and experience the benefits of:

• Building and maintaining a positive self concept

• Interacting positively and effectively with others, and

• Changing and growing throughout life.

To take advantage of possible options, people need the knowledge and skills to:

• Participate in life-long learning that is supportive of their career goals

• Locate and effectively use career information, and

• Understand the relationship between work, society and the economy.

With interest and support from family members, friends, teachers, and career development practitioners, people can learn how best to:

• Secure/create and maintain work

• Make career enhancing decisions

• Maintain balanced life and work roles, and

• Understand the changing nature of life and work roles.

http://www.blueprint.edu.au/

http://www.blueprint.edu.au/


Career Management Frameworks- DOTS

Law


Self awareness

• Interests

• Skills

• Values

• What else do students need to know about themselves?

Occupational awareness

•What work and other opportunities are available

•How might you assist students to increase their awareness?


Decision making

• Understand factors that influence choice

• Understand how choice is made

• Own choice

• What’s your decision making style?

Taking action

How

Planning - goals, actions, contingency plans

What knowledge, skills and attitudes might be required?


Your role in career development…

• Old – “test & tell”, job for life…practitioner was expert, client passive

• New – life long learning process – practitioner role is to facilitate learning, both engaged….

• What does this new way of thinking mean for your role????


Review


Conduct career guidance interview

• What is your role?

• What do you think clients expect of you?

• What is client role?

• What do you expect of clients?


Communication skills for helping

• Active listening

• Questioning

• Reflection and paraphrase

• Action planning

Certificate IV in Career Development. RMIT University©14/01/2014 School of Education 2 Outcomes Understand the nature of career development and how it.

Documents

career career development

career education

career development work

career development slide

career lifedevelopment

focus of career development

career development theory

career development frameworks