Career Development Professionals (CDPs) keep well-informed of research presenting empirical evidence of interventions that work best to help clients find and keep meaningful employment. Using these insights, CDPs develop evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes.
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:
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
Evidence-based research: research guided by descriptive and qualitative research and scientific principles.
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To become fully proficient in this competency, a career development professional requires a minimum of one year of experience with at least 40 different clients, representing a broad range of individuals.
Practitioners typically perform this competency without supervision, and as part of a team and/or alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
