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      • S1 Assessment
      • S2 Facilitated Individual and Group Learning
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      • S4 Information and Resource Management
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Career Competence for Career Professionals

The Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners (S&Gs)

Assess yourself against this competency and record your evidence, actions, and plans in your
Career Competence Self-Assessment and Professional Development Form.

S5.1.4 – Support clients with work maintenance

S5 – Work Development

S5.1 – Develop Work Opportunities for Clients

S5.1.4 – Support clients with work maintenance

Why is this competency important?

  • to encourage continued success in maintaining employment

To demonstrate this competency, career development practitioners must:

  • support clients and/or employers, e.g.,
    • make employment standards information available to client
    • seek feedback from employers, supervisors, co- workers and clients
    • respond constructively to the feedback
    • solve problems:
      • identify issues, e.g., skill requirements, personality conflicts, employment equity
      • identify strategies to resolve the issues, e.g., participate in skill development, seek mediation
  • review the appropriateness of matches between clients and employers:
    • if inappropriate:
      • seek options with the current employers to improve situation and maintain employment, e.g., training
      • seek opportunities with other employers
      • explore self-employment opportunities

The Career Competence Self-Assessment and Professional Development Planning Tool for Career Development Practitioners is developed by Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) and is made possible by The Canadian Standards & Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners.

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