Common Career Education Terms

Common career education terms Developing and implementing a career education plan requires a shared understanding of terminology. Below is a selection of career-related terms that are commonly used, as defined in the Career Industry Council of Australia’s (CICA) Professional Standards for Career Development Practitioners. These definitions are consistent with the Preparing Secondary Students for Work framework. 1 Career development 5 Careers adviser The lifelong process of managing learning, Careers advisers provide a service that work, leisure and transitions in order to facilitates career decision-making. In move towards a personally determined addition they provide timely and and evolving future. Career development authoritative advice and information to may be defined as the complex process of students, colleagues and parents for use in managing life, learning, and work over the school programs. lifespan. 6 Career counselling 2 Career development services An individual or group process which A wide range of programs and services emphasises self-awareness and provided in many different jurisdictions understanding, and facilitates people to and delivery settings. Their objective is to develop a satisfying and meaningful assist individuals to gain the knowledge, life/work direction as a basis to guide skills, attitudes and behaviours to manage learning, work and transition decisions, as their life, learning and work in self- well as manage responses to changing directed ways. work and learning environments over the lifespan. 3 Career development practitioner 7 Career guidance An umbrella term that refers to any direct Services intended to assist individuals, of service provider in the career any age and at any point throughout their development field. Any direct service lives, to make educational, training and provider who plays a part in facilitating occupational choices and to manage their learning that fosters career development. careers. A range of interventions including career education and counselling, that 4 Career education help people to move from a general The development of knowledge, skills and understanding of life and work to a attitudes through a planned program of specific understanding of the realistic learning experiences in education and learning and work options that are open training settings which will assist students to them. to make informed decisions about their study and/or work options and enable 8 Career information effective participation in working life. Information (print, electronic, personal contacts and other resources) that assists the process of career development. Career training information and social information includes occupational and information related to the world of work. industry information, education and