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CANADIAN STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
for Career Development Practitioners

The Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners is a voluntary code of conduct for those in the field. They were developed to:

• Define career development as a legitimate specialization
• Provide a foundation for designing career development-practitioner training
• Provide quality assurance to the public
• Recognize and validate the diverse skill sets of practitioners working in the field
• Create a common voice and vocabulary for career development

The Standards & Guidelines outline a specific set of competencies required for Career Development Practitioners based upon job practices. The three competency clusters are:

1. Core Competencies: Professional behaviors, interpersonal competence, career development knowledge, and needs assessment and referral
2. Areas of Specialization: Assessment, facilitated individual and group learning, career counseling, information and resource management, work development, and community capacity-building
3. Common Skills and Knowledge: Work search strategies and group facilitation

To learn more about the Standards & Guidelines visit the link below. The full S&Gs are available (in both Word and PDF format) by clicking on the Standards & Guidelines section. http://career-dev-guidelines.org/career_dev/.

TAKING CHARGE: THE STANDARDS & GUIDELINES SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL

Identify the competencies you possess as outlined by the Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners through the use of this helpful self-assessment tool sponsored by the Competency Frameworks for Career Development / Educational and Vocational Guidance Practitioners. The assessment also provides assistance in the development of a personalized action plan to develop the competencies that you are missing as well as tracking your progress over time.

To take the self-assessment click on the following link:
http://www.savie.qc.ca/Carrieres/An/Accueil.asp

BRITISH COLUMBIA CAREER INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP (BCCIP) S&Gs SUBCOMMITTEE

BC’s Career Information Partnership has formed a subcommittee whose mandate is to foster the use and acceptance of the CDN Standard & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners in British Columbia. This committee also took on the challenging task of developing a draft certification model for BC’s Career Development Practitioners.

Visit the Standards & Guidelines section of the BCCIP website to learn about important subcommittee activities; available at http://workinfonet.bc.ca/bccip/Standards/default.htm

Learn more about the BC Certified Career Development Practitioner credential.