Career Development Professionals (CDPs) help clients address conflicts in their professional and personal lives. This prevents issues from escalating, prevents future conflict, and allows clients to focus on their career development.
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:
The nature of conflicts that CDPs help their clients address may be varied, including conflicts with partners, employers and other service providers.
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
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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 with and/or without supervision, and alone.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
