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2.3 How the Blueprint Enhances Career Development Services
The primary purpose of the Blueprint is to provide a national framework of career
competencies to create and implement comprehensive, effective and measurable career
development programs which help Australians to better manage their lives, learning and
work. Having a national framework of career competencies helps career development
service providers achieve a number of aims:
Clarity of Outcomes
By identifying the career competencies, the Blueprint
enables career practitioners to specify and measure the
learning outcomes they are striving to achieve in the career
development programs they design and use.
Service Consistency
Working with the identified career management
competencies enables practitioners in the careers
community to clearly identify the competencies addressed
by the services they are delivering. This will also facilitate
more seamless service provision for those moving from one
institution/service provider to another.
Efficiency
A universal framework enabling products and programs to
be coded according to the career management
competencies helps practitioners and clients more
efficiently review, compare and select career development
products.
Reduced Ambiguity
Assumptions abound regarding the meanings of terms such
as ‘career’, ‘work’ and ‘guidance’. Articulating the career
management competencies enhances clarity, reduces
ambiguity and facilitates more effective communication
regarding career development.
Career Development Culture
The Blueprint provides a structure that allows Australians to
think and talk about career development and act on it in
consistent ways. It brings increased coherence to the
numerous independent efforts aimed at helping Australians
manage their lives, learning and work and it will enhance all
Australians’ awareness of career development and life/work
issues.
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