Career Development Professionals (CDPs) coach and assist clients to build a support network consisting of personal and professional contacts. This enables clients to overcome challenges, find practical solutions to issues they are facing, and achieve their 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:
Clients will already have varying degrees of support networks, requiring a tailored approach for each client.
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
Support network: people who will provide personal and professional support to a client at all phases of the career development process, by providing constructive feedback and encouragement, celebrating successes, acting as a sounding board, facilitating access to information and people, informing on emerging trends, and offering new connections and ideas.
Q: What is the consequence of a professional being unable to perform this skill according to the standard?
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A competent 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 alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
