Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and select appropriate career and work options and develop a career plan.
The unit applies to individuals who need learning skills at Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) level 3 to undertake a vocational training pathway or workplace tasks.
This unit is designed for integration and contextualisation with vocational units to support achievement of vocational competency.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance Criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Investigate career options | 1.1 Identify own career options 1.2 Select a preferred option 1.3 Investigate training requirements for selected option 1.4 Identify own skills and knowledge |
2. Develop an individual career plan | 2.1 Identify routine learning strategies to develop required skills 2.2 Develop a career plan to implement strategies 2.3 Review plan and strategies |
Evidence of Performance
Evidence of the ability to:
identify training requirements for career option
develop an individual career plan
review career plan.
Note: Where a specific volume and/or frequency is not specified, evidence must be provided at least once.
Evidence of Knowledge
Evidence of the following knowledge must be demonstrated:
own career and training options
sources of information for support and advice on work and training options
strategies to achieve identified work goals.
Assessment Conditions
Assessment texts and tasks reflect those typically found in the workplace.
Individuals can access own familiar support resources.
Culturally appropriate processes and techniques suited to the language, literacy and numeracy capacity of individuals and the work being performed must be used.
Reasonable adjustments can be made to ensure equity in assessment for people with disabilities.
Assessors must satisfy NVR/AQTF assessor requirements, have sound knowledge of the ACSF and have demonstrable expertise in the vocational contextualisation and assessment of the core skill - learning.
Foundation Skills
This section describes language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills incorporated in the performance criteria that are required for competent performance.
Skill | Performance | Description |
Oral Communication | Discusses career options with trainer or supervisor | |
Planning and Organising | Uses strategies to develop an individual learning plan to achieve career goal | |
Problem Solving | Identifies training requirements to achieve career goals |
Sectors
Learning