Career Development Professionals (CDPs) build self-agency of clients to promote independence and resilience, increase motivation, and reduce anxiety. Building self-agency also helps increase clients’ sense of control, hope, and confidence in their ability to achieve career goals.
Competent career development professionals must be able to:
Competent career development professionals must know and understand:
Competent career development professionals must be able to perform this competency in the following range of contexts:
Depending on the client, low self-agency, i.e. a lack of perceived control over their own life, can pose a key barrier to career development. In this situation, its improvement should be a CDP’s primary goal.
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
Self-agency: the power an individual has over their own life. Self-agency means that an individual has a sense of control over their actions or events that may affect them.
Q: What is the consequence of a professional being unable to perform this skill according to the standard?
Q: How frequent and under what conditions is this skill performed?
Q: Under routine circumstances, how would you rate the level of difficulty in performing this skill?
Q: What is the average length of time or number of repeated events that are minimally necessary for an individual to become proficient in performing the skill to the standard?
A career development professional requires a minimum experience of working with at least 40 clients experiencing low self-agency.
Practitioners typically perform this competency without supervision, and alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
