In Chapter Two, the elements that comprise the Blueprint framework were introduced.
In this chapter, the elements are combined and presented as a series of matrices.
The first matrix is an overview of the eleven career management competencies. The matrices that follow show the competencies and performance indicators expressed at each developmental phase, and at every stage of the learning taxonomy.
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An Overview of the Career Management Competencies by Phase
COMPETENCIES
PHASE I
PHASE II
PHASE III
PHASE IV
AREA A: PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
- Build and maintain a positive self-concept
1.1 Build a positive self-concept while discovering its influence on yourself and others
1.2 Build a positive self-concept and understand its influence on life, learning and work
1.3 Develop abilities to maintain a positive self-concept
1.4 Improve abilities to maintain a positive self-concept - Interact positively and effectively with others
2.1 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life
2.2 Develop additional abilities for building positive relationships in life
2.3 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life and work
2.4 Improve abilities for building positive relationships in life and work - Change and grow throughout life
3.1 Discover that change and growth are part of life
3.2 Learn to respond to change and growth
3.3 Learn to respond to change that affects your wellbeing
3.4 Develop strategies for responding positively to life and work changes
AREA B: LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION - Participate in lifelong learning supportive of career goals
4.1 Discover lifelong learning and its contribution to life and work
4.2 Link lifelong learning to personal career aspirations
4.3 Link lifelong learning to the career-building process
4.4 Participate in continuous learning supportive of career goals - Locate and effectively use career information
5.1 Understand the nature of career information
5.2 Locate and use career information
5.3 Locate and evaluate a range of career information sources
5.4 Use career information effectively in the management of your career - Understand the relationship between work, society and the economy
6.1 Discover how work contributes to individuals’ lives
6.2 Understand how work contributes to the community
6.3 Understand how societal needs and economic conditions influence the nature and structure of work
6.4 Incorporate your understanding of changing economic, social and employment conditions into your career planning
AREA C: CAREER BUILDING - Secure/create and maintain work
7.1 Explore effective ways of working
7.2 Develop qualities to seek and obtain/create work
7.3 Develop abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain work
7.4 Improve on abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain work - Make career-enhancing decisions
8.1 Explore and improve decision making
8.2 Link decision making to career building
8.3 Engage in career decision making
8.4 Incorporate realism into your career decision making - Maintain balanced life and work roles
9.1 Explore and understand the interrelationship of life roles
9.2 Explore and understand the interrelationship between life and work roles
9.3 Link lifestyles and life stages to career building
9.4 Incorporate life/work balance into the career-building process - Understand the changing nature of life and work roles
10.1 Discover the nature of gendered life and work roles
10.2 Explore non-traditional life and work options
10.3 Understand and learn to overcome stereotypes in your career building
10.4 Seek to eliminate gender bias and stereotypes in your career building - Understand, engage in and manage the career building process
11.1 Explore the underlying concepts of the career-building process
11.2 Understand and experience the career-building process
11.3 Take charge of your career-building process
11.4 Manage your career-building process
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The Career Management Competencies and Performance Indicators by Area and Phase
AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
COMPETENCY 1: BUILD AND MAINTAIN A POSITIVE SELF-CONCEPT
PHASE I
PHASE II
1.1 Build a positive self-concept while discovering its influence on yourself and others
1.2 Build a positive self-concept and understand its influence on life, learning and work
Acquire
1.1.1 Explore the nature of personal characteristics such as interests, likes and dislikes, personal qualities, strengths and weaknesses.
1.1.2 Discover how positive characteristics are the basis of a positive self-concept.
1.1.3 Understand how your self-concept influences your behaviours.
1.1.4 Understand how your behaviours influence the feelings and behaviours of others.
Acquire
1.2.1 Discover how behaviours and attitudes affect school, work and family situations.
1.2.2 Understand how the environment influences attitudes and behaviours.
1.2.3 Understand the nature of values and beliefs, and explore their influence on self-concept.
1.2.4 Discover the personal and professional benefits of developing a positive self-concept and the consequences of developing a negative one.
Apply
1.1.5 Identify your positive personal characteristics (skills, interests, personal qualities and strengths) as seen by you and others.
1.1.6 Demonstrate behaviours and attitudes that reflect a positive self-concept.
Apply
1.2.5 Describe your self-concept.
1.2.6 Practise behaviours in school, work and family situations that reflect a positive attitude about yourself.
Personalise
1.1.7 Evaluate which of your behaviours and attitudes contribute either positively or negatively to your self-concept.
Personalise
1.2.7 Evaluate the impact of your self-concept on you and others at home, school or work.
Act
1.1.8 Adapt your behaviours and attitudes in order to improve your self-concept.
Act
1.2.8 Change behaviours and attitudes in order to improve your self-concept so that it contributes positively to your life, learning and work activities.
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AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT (continued)
COMPETENCY 1: BUILD AND MAINTAIN A POSITIVE SELF-CONCEPT
PHASE III
PHASE IV
1.3 Develop abilities to maintain a positive self-concept
1.4 Improve abilities to maintain a positive self-concept
Acquire
1.3.1 Understand how individual characteristics such as interests, skills, values, beliefs and attitudes contribute to achieving personal, social, educational and professional goals.
1.3.2 Understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback to maintaining a positive self-concept.
1.3.3 Understand the importance of allies (eg, friends, and supporters) to maintaining a positive self-concept.
Acquire
1.4.1 Understand the influence of personal characteristics (skills, knowledge, attitudes, interests, values, beliefs and behaviours) on career decisions.
1.4.2 Understand how achievements related to work, learning and leisure influence your self-concept.
Apply
1.3.4 Identify your personal characteristics such as your interests, skills, values, beliefs and attitudes.
1.3.5 Identify behaviours and attitudes that reflect your self-concept.
1.3.6 Identify your allies and external assets.
1.3.7 Demonstrate giving and receiving feedback in ways that build a positive self-concept.
Apply
1.4.3 Explore how your own career decisions have been, and are influenced by, personal characteristics (skills, knowledge, attitudes, interests, values and beliefs).
1.4.4 Identify your personal achievements related to work, learning and leisure.
1.4.5 Adopt behaviours and attitudes that project a positive self-concept.
Personalise
1.3.8 Assess how your personal characteristics and behaviours are reflected in your life, learning and work goals.
1.3.9 Assess the part that your allies play in achieving your life, learning and work goals.
Personalise
1.4.6 Re-examine your personal characteristics and determine those that contribute positively to the achievement of your life, learning and work goals.
1.4.7 Examine your personal achievements and acknowledge their influence on your self-concept.
Act
1.3.10 Adopt behaviours and attitudes that will help you reach your life, learning and work goals.
Act
1.4.8 Improve your life, learning and work activities by maximising your positive characteristics.
1.4.9 Engage in life, learning and work activities that validate all aspects of your self and provide a sense of personal achievement.
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AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
COMPETENCY 2: INTERACT POSITIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS
PHASE I
PHASE II
2.1 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life
2.2 Develop additional abilities for building positive relationships in life
Acquire
2.1.1 Discover the uniqueness of human beings.
2.1.2 Explore the sources and effects of pressure from peers/others.
2.1.3 Identify positive social skills, such as empathy, cooperation, a willingness to help and show respect for others.
2.1.4 Identify the skills and qualities that help you get on well with others and work with them in groups.
Acquire
2.2.1 Explore ways of resolving conflicts with your peers or others.
2.2.2 Recognise the importance of respect, tolerance, flexibility and openness when dealing with people from different backgrounds.
Apply
2.1.5 Demonstrate positive social skills, such as helping, showing respect and cooperating with others.
2.1.6 Demonstrate appropriate behaviours and attitudes when peer pressures are contrary to your beliefs.
2.1.7 Adopt behaviours and attitudes, such as tolerance and flexibility, that help you get on well with others and work with them in groups.
Apply
2.2.3 Demonstrate respect for the feelings and beliefs of others.
2.2.4 Demonstrate effective skills and attitudes for resolving conflicts with peers or others.
2.2.5 Demonstrate openness to the diversity of other people’s cultures and lifestyles and their mental and physical abilities.
Personalise
2.1.8 Acknowledge and appreciate your unique character.
2.1.9 Examine your own behaviours and attitudes and decide which help or inhibit you from getting on well with others and working with them in groups.
Personalise
2.2.6 Acknowledge and appreciate the similarities and differences among people.
2.2.7 Review your respect, tolerance, flexibility and openness towards others and determine the ways in which your attitudes are influencing the development of positive relationships in your life.
Act
2.1.10 Adopt behaviours and attitudes that help you to build positive relationships in life.
Act
2.2.8 Improve your social, interpersonal and group communication skills in order to build positive relationships in your life and work.
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AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT (continued)
COMPETENCY 2: INTERACT POSITIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS
PHASE III
PHASE IV
2.3 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life and work
2.4 Improve abilities for building positive relationships in life and work
Acquire
2.3.1 Discover the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to work effectively with and for others.
2.3.2 Explore appropriate ways of assisting others.
2.3.3 Examine the nature of the contractual relationship between employees and employers and the nature of the contractual relationship between clients and contractors.
Acquire
2.4.1 Explore innovative interpersonal and group communication skills.
2.4.2 Explore the concept of self-defeating behaviours and attitudes as well as strategies for overcoming them.
2.4.3 Explore the importance of positive relationships to your career building.
2.4.4 Discover the importance and benefits of being able to interact with diverse groups of people in all areas of your life.
Apply
2.3.4 Demonstrate behaviours and attitudes required for working with and for others.
2.3.5 Demonstrate skills for assisting others, such as problem solving and facilitation skills.
2.3.6 Express feelings, reactions and ideas in an appropriate manner when dealing with others.
Apply
2.4.5 Demonstrate effective social and group membership skills, knowledge and attitudes.
2.4.6 Apply strategies for overcoming self-defeating behaviours and attitudes.
2.4.7 Demonstrate the ability to handle outside pressure.
2.4.8 Demonstrate the ability to interact with diverse groups of people.
Personalise
2.3.7 Determine the ‘helping’ skills you feel comfortable with and wish to contribute in your relationships with others.
2.3.8 Acknowledge the positive effects of expressing your feelings, reactions and ideas appropriately.
Personalise
2.4.9 Acknowledge and appreciate the outcomes of positive relationships in your personal and professional roles.
2.4.10 Assess the ways in which showing respect for all kinds of people has contributed to your career.
Act
2.3.9 Engage in interactions and learning experiences that help build positive relationships in your life and work.
Act
2.4.11 Continuously assess and develop your social and interpersonal skills and your respect for the diversity of individuals.
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AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
COMPETENCY 3: CHANGE AND GROW THROUGHOUT LIFE
PHASE I
PHASE II
3.1 Discover that change and growth are part of life
3.2 Learn to respond to change and growth
Acquire
3.1.1 Explore the concepts of change and growth as part of life.
3.1.2 Understand that change and growth can impact negatively on your mental and physical health (eg, stress, frustration, confusion, fatigue).
3.1.3 Understand that good mental and physical health habits help you to deal with change and growth.
3.1.4 Explore effective ways to express your feelings.
3.1.5 Explore the importance of asking for help and ways to do so.
Acquire
3.2.1 Understand the physical, psychological, social and emotional changes that occur as people develop.
3.2.2 Understand how physiological and psychological changes impact on people’s lives.
3.2.3 Explore how unexpected events can cause life changes.
3.2.4 Explore the importance of work, family and leisure activities to mental and physical health.
Apply
3.1.6 Demonstrate effective mental and physical health habits.
3.1.7 Express your feelings in appropriate ways.
3.1.8 Demonstrate the capacity to ask for help when needed.
Apply
3.2.5 Identify your own physical, psychological, social and emotional changes.
3.2.6 Explore an unexpected event and assess its impact on your life.
Personalise
3.1.9 Acknowledge the positive effects of expressing your feelings appropriately.
3.1.10 Acknowledge the positive outcomes of asking for help.
3.1.11 Identify the mental and physical health habits that assist you to deal with change and growth.
Personalise
3.2.7 Examine work, family and leisure activities and assess their impact on your own mental, emotional, physical and financial wellbeing.
3.2.8 Examine the ways in which you deal with unexpected events.
Act
3.1.12 Establish appropriate ways for expressing your feelings and asking for help.
3.1.13 Adopt mental and physical health habits that assist you to deal with change and growth.
Act
3.2.9 Engage in family and leisure activities that contribute to your own mental, emotional, financial and physical wellbeing.
3.2.10 Adopt effective (eg, being flexible and adaptable) strategies for dealing with unexpected events.
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AREA A – PERSONAL MANAGEMENT (continued)
COMPETENCY 3: CHANGE AND GROW THROUGHOUT LIFE
PHASE III
PHASE IV
3.3 Learn to respond to change that affects your wellbeing
3.4 Develop strategies for responding positively to life and work changes
Acquire
3.3.1 Describe how change and growth can affect physical and mental health.
3.3.2 Explore how mental and physical health impact on life and work decisions.
3.3.3 Explore effective communication skills to use in stressful situations (eg, assertiveness, conflict resolution or problem solving).
Acquire
3.4.1 Understand how personal motivations and aspirations may change over time.
3.4.2 Understand the physical and psychological changes that occur with age.
3.4.3 Explore how work performance may be adapted to physical and psychological changes that occur with age.
3.4.4 Understand how changes related to work (eg, job loss, job transfer) impact on your life and may require life changes.
3.4.5 Explore the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to adapt to changing work role requirements.
Apply
3.3.4 Identify what places stress on your mind and body.
3.3.5 Demonstrate behaviours that maintain your physical and mental health.
3.3.6 Apply stress management strategies.
3.3.7 Demonstrate effective communication skills in stressful situations (eg, assertiveness, conflict resolution or problem solving).
Apply
3.4.6 Describe your personal motivations and aspirations.
3.4.7 Develop and apply strategies to adapt and respond effectively to career changes (eg, problem solving, networking, updating portfolio and resume and acquiring new skills and knowledge).
Personalise
3.3.8 Examine your mental and physical health and evaluate its impact on your career decisions.
3.3.9 Acknowledge the positive outcomes of actively managing issues that affect your wellbeing.
3.3.10 Assess your communication skills and adopt those that are most effective in stressful situations.
Personalise
3.4.8 Examine your personal motivations and aspirations and determine their impact on your career decisions.
3.4.9 Acknowledge your ability to adapt and respond effectively to career changes.
Act
3.3.11 Adopt habits and engage in experiences that maintain or improve your mental and physical health.
Act
3.4.10 Create career scenarios based on your personal motivations and aspirations.
3.4.11 Improve your ability to adapt and respond positively to career changes.
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AREA B – LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION
COMPETENCY 4: PARTICIPATE IN LIFELONG LEARNING SUPPORTIVE OF CAREER GOALS
PHASE I
PHASE II
4.1 Discover lifelong learning and its contribution to life and work
4.2 Link lifelong learning to personal career aspirations
Acquire
4.1.1 Understand the importance of education and training to your career.
4.1.2 Discover how different kinds of work require different combinations of skill and knowledge.
4.1.3 Explore how the skills, knowledge and attitudes acquired in one setting (eg, at school, at home, in the workplace and in the community) can be used in other settings.
4.1.4 Discover the learning habits and study skills that help people to achieve good education and training outcomes.
Acquire
4.2.1 Explore lifelong learning strategies such as being curious and adventurous.
4.2.2 Explore subject area strengths as well as areas for improvement.
4.2.3 Explore strategies for improving skills and knowledge.
4.2.4 Explore the importance of a variety of skill types in the workplace.
4.2.5 Explore the knowledge and skills required to operate safely and effectively in the workplace
4.2.6 Explore the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed in particular industry sectors.
4.2.7 Understand how past, present and future academic performance may impact upon the selection of future programs/courses.
4.2.8 Understand how past, present and future academic performance may impact upon available work options.
Apply
4.1.5 Identify skills, knowledge and attitudes that you acquired in one setting that can be used in other settings.
4.1.6 Identify your learning style, learning habits and study skills.
Apply
4.2.9 Apply strategies for improving your skills and knowledge.
4.2.10 Demonstrate skills and attitudes towards learning that will help you to achieve your life and work goals.
4.2.11 Identify how your education and training achievements affect your available options regarding courses/ programs, workplace training and/or entry into work.
Personalise
4.1.7 Evaluate your learning habits and study skills and identify those that help you best to learn.
Personalise
4.2.12 Evaluate strategies for improving skills and knowledge and adopt those that contribute best to the learning process.
Act
4.1.18 Adopt those learning habits and study skills that suit you best.
Act
4.2.13 Improve your learning habits and study skills and adopt attitudes towards learning that will help you to achieve your life and work goals.
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AREA B – LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION (continued)
COMPETENCY 4: PARTICIPATE IN LIFELONG LEARNING SUPPORTIVE OF CAREER GOALS
PHASE III
PHASE IV
4.3 Link lifelong learning to the career building process
4.4 Participate in continuous learning supportive of career goals
Acquire
4.3.1 Understand how the skills, knowledge and attitudes acquired in a variety of learning programs may contribute to achieving personal and professional goals.
4.3.2 Understand how lifelong learning enhances people’s ability to achieve career goals.
4.3.3 Understand how a set of skills, knowledge and attitudes can fulfil the requirements of a variety of work roles and work environments.
4.3.4 Understand why lifelong learning is required in the workplace.
4.3.5 Explore the education and training requirements of various work roles.
Acquire
4.4.1 Investigate educational opportunities (eg, vocational learning programs, employer-sponsored training).
4.4.2 Investigate community resources that support education and training (eg, childcare, public transportation, and health and human services).
4.4.3 Understand the importance of developing strategies to help overcome barriers to education and training.
4.4.4 Explore how skills, knowledge and attitudes acquired enhance work opportunities.
4.4.5 Explore lifelong learning resources available in workplace settings (eg, computer-assisted self-directed training, mentoring, and attendance at short courses).
4.4.6 Explore personal and professional learning plans.
Apply
4.3.6 Demonstrate lifelong learning behaviours and attitudes that contribute to achieving personal and professional goals.
Apply
4.4.7 Prepare short- and long-range plans to achieve your personal and professional goals through appropriate educational/training pathways.
4.4.8 Outline and adopt strategies to overcome personal barriers to education and training.
4.4.9 Undertake learning activities (eg, studying, responding to feedback from supervisors, engaging in a project of interest).
Personalise
4.3.7 Determine the value of ongoing learning to you.
4.3.8 Identify the transferable skills, knowledge and attitudes that can fulfil the requirements of a variety of work roles and work environments.
Personalise
4.4.10 Assess your skills, knowledge and attitudes towards learning and determine how these enhance your career opportunities.
4.4.11 Determine which lifelong learning strategies work best for you.
Act
4.3.9 Engage in a continuous learning process supportive of your career goals.
Act
4.4.12 Improve learning strategies and engage in a lifelong learning process supportive of your career goals.
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AREA B – LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION
COMPETENCY 5: LOCATE AND EFFECTIVELY USE CAREER INFORMATION
PHASE I
PHASE II
5.1 Understand the nature of career information
5.2 Locate and use career information
Acquire
5.1.1 Understand the nature of career information (eg, education and training information, occupational and industry information and labour market information).
5.1.2 Understand the importance of knowing whether career information is from a reliable source.
5.1.3 Understand how parents, relatives, friends and/or neighbours provide us with information and influence our career choices.
5.1.4 Understand the range of career information resources (eg, through networks, the internet, television, and newspapers) that provide occupational and industry information.
Acquire
5.2.1 Understand the importance of and the ways in which you can locate and use education and training information.
5.2.2 Understand the importance of and the ways in which you can locate and use occupational and industry information.
5.2.3 Understand the importance of and the ways in which you can locate and use labour market information.
Apply
5.1.5 Find out about the work roles of family members, school personnel and community workers/ employers.
5.1.6 Explore the working conditions of their various roles (eg, inside/outside, hazardous, responsibilities for health and safety).
Apply
5.2.4 Explore the differences between occupations and industry sectors by locating and using available career information resources.
5.2.5 Explore the education and training requirements for occupations of interest by locating and using available career information resources.
5.2.6 Identify the current and future labour market outlook for occupations of interest.
5.2.7 Explore a variety of work alternatives (eg, volunteering, full-time employment, contracting, consulting, and entrepreneurship).
Personalise
5.1.7 Assess whether the information you gain from career information websites, such as www.myfuture.edu.au, differs from information you gain from observing and listening to your parents’ views.
Personalise
5.2.8 Assess the relevance of the career information resources you have used to your career information search.
5.2.9 Determine, according to your own preferences, the advantages and disadvantages of various work alternatives (eg, being a full-time/part-time employee or self-employment options such as contracting, consulting or entrepreneurship).
Act
5.1.8 Recognise the value that you place on career information from various sources.
Act
5.2.10 Improve strategies for locating, understanding and using career information.
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AREA B – LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION (continued)
COMPETENCY 5: LOCATE AND EFFECTIVELY USE CAREER INFORMATION
PHASE III
PHASE IV
5.3 Locate and evaluate a range of career information sources
5.4 Use career information effectively in the management of your career
Acquire
5.3.1 Discover how key personnel in selected work roles could become ideal information resources/role models.
5.3.2 Understand how labour market information (profiles, statistics, etc) can be used when making career decisions.
5.3.3 Explore how trends and work opportunities in various industry sectors impact upon the nature and structure of work roles.
5.3.4 Explore how employment and workplace trends impact upon the provision of education and training.
5.3.5 Understand how a variety of factors (eg, supply and demand for workers, demographic changes, environmental conditions, geographic location) impact upon work opportunities.
Acquire
5.4.1 Investigate career-related information and materials (eg, on self-assessment, on career planning, on professional associations, on prospective employers).
5.4.2 Explore the limitations of occupational and labour market information.
5.4.3 Discover the diverse work opportunities available to an individual with a given set of work skills, knowledge and attitudes.
5.4.4 Understand how to assess the reliability of career information.
Apply
5.3.6 Use career information resources such as career directories, occupational classification systems, labour market information, mass media, computer and internet-based career information delivery systems to locate trend information on occupational and industry trends, education and training trends, and social and economic trends.
Apply
5.4.5 Use career information resources to identify work opportunities that are available to someone with your set of work skills, knowledge and attitudes.
5.4.6 Assess the reliability of career information resources you use to identify opportunities.
Personalise
5.3.7 Rank the usefulness of career information resources you have explored in terms of their accuracy, currency, reliability and relevance.
Personalise
5.4.7 Determine, according to your preferences, which work opportunities should or will be considered in your career goals and aspirations.
Act
5.3.8 Put strategies in place to evaluate career information resources that you locate and use.
Act
5.4.8 Create or adapt career goals and aspirations using relevant and accurate career-related information.
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CHAPTER THREE The Matrices of the Blueprint
