Qualifications & Alternative Pathway Guidelines
What do I have to do to be recognised as a Career Development Practitioner?
The Professional Standards recognise two levels of career development practitioners, specifically Professional career development practitioner and Associate career development practitioner.
Professional career development practitioners - (according to the revised Professional Standards) work in the field of career development and have completed and had recognised as a minimum qualification
(a) an endorsed
* Graduate Certificate; or
* Vocational Graduate Certificate
or
(b) an alternative pathway to Professional status as may be approved on a case by case basis by the Member Associations in line with Policy and Procedures developed by the Council.
Associate career development practitioners - (according to the Professional Standards) work in the field of career development and have completed and had recognised as a minimum qualification
(a) a Certificate IV
or
(b) an alternative pathway to Associate status as may be approved on a case by case basis by the Member Associations in line with Policy and Procedures developed by the Council.
What will happen if I don’t have any endorsed qualifications and I want to be recognised as a career development practitioner?Career development practitioners in this situation will need to apply to a CICA member association for membership. The following link provides for the application to be assessed according to either CICA’s Alternative Pathway to Professional Status Policy and Procedures Statement or CICA’s Alternative Pathway to Associate Status Policy and Procedures Statement
As part of the revision of Section 4 of the Professional Standards, CICA developed the Alternative Pathway to Professional Status Policy and Procedures Statement to provide guidelines for member associations to assess whether career development practitioners without endorsed qualifications are eligible for professional status.
The criteria against which such practitioners will be assessed are:
(a) the individual’s postgraduate qualifications have been awarded by an Australian or New Zealand university (or government-registered higher-education provider), which are held in combination with,
(b) significant professional experience, and
(c) continuing professional development that is associated with career development.
