Career Development Professionals (CDPs) design information or training sessions to share information or help clients develop the skills needed to find and keep a job, explore educational options or build a business. Training may be delivered in various forms, e.g. facilitated workshops, online webinars, paper-based workbooks.
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:
Topics of information sessions and workshops must be tailored to the needs of each audience.
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A competent career development professional requires a minimum of designing and delivering 10 information sessions or workshops on a range of topics to varied audiences.
Practitioners typically perform this competency without supervision, and alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
