Career Development Professionals (CDPs) use non-verbal communication to build and maintain rapport, reinforce verbal messages, and promote increased understanding.CDPs need to understand how non-verbal cues are read or understood by others and must become adept at reading the cues in others, recognizing differences across various cultures and abilities.
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:
Clients may interpret non-verbal cues very differently than the CDP intended them, based on their background and lived experiences.
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
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?
To ensure effective practice, a career development professional would be expected to proficiently perform this competency upon entering practice.
Practitioners typically perform this competency without supervision, and alone and/or as part of a team.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
