Overview
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
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1.1
Identify different types and sources of information, advice and guidance on careers.
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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
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2.1
Review relevance of own skills, qualities, experience, training and/or qualifications for different career options.
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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).
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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
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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
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4.1
Outline possible progression routes within a specific area of work (e.g. developing a specialism or taking on a management role).