Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 2
Unit No:
F/617/4065
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
24 hours

Assessment Guidance

Portfolio of Evidence.

Aim

To support learners in investigating and assessing potential career options and planning a career through setting appropriate career goals.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Be able to investigate career options.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1

    Identify different types and sources of information, advice and guidance on careers.

  • 1.2

    Use careers information, advice and guidance to build understanding of possible career options, including entry routes where appropriate.


2

Be able to assess career options.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1

    Review relevance of own skills, qualities, experience, training and/or qualifications for different career options.

  • 2.2

    Outline the advantages and disadvantages of different career options (e.g. time taken to train, level of salary, working patterns, work/life balance).

  • 2.3

    Outline a specific career option, relevant to own skills, interests and ambitions, including key features of the option and reasons for selecting it.


3

Be able to plan to achieve a career-related goal.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1

    Use careers information, advice and guidance to produce a career development plan to enable self to progress from own starting point to achieve a career-related goal, including
    •timescales
    •targets

    •key actions to be taken (e.g. undertaking training).


4

Be able to plan for career progression.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1

    Outline possible progression routes within a specific area of work (e.g. developing a specialism or taking on a management role).