Career Development Professionals (CDPs) participate in raising public awareness of the role CDPs play in helping individuals navigate learning and employment transitions across their lifespan. CDPs create collaboration opportunities to promote positive health, social and economic outcomes. Building public awareness helps increase the profile of CDPs in the community and better conveys the importance of the essential services provided.
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:
CDPs may need to build public awareness in challenging situations, including having limited resources and funding, absence of networks, or lack of existing academic research and literature.
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
Cohen, D. et al. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Advocacy Toolkit: a guide to influencing decisions that improve children’s lives. First edition. New York, 2010
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A career development professional must have recognized expertise in the field of career development, hold a position of authority in an organization, and nurture a network of relationships (personal, public, professional and organizational).
Practitioners typically perform this competency without supervision, and alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
