Career professionals apply organisational and network theories in defining the common goals of guidance and in planning, implementing, and evaluating services. Career professionals work in multisectoral networks and promote the continuity and consistency of services at different phases of an individual's life.

The career professional has knowledge and understanding of

• the communal nature of entities and organisations providing guidance services
• factors that promote or limit the activities of the organisation, networks and different actors in achieving jointly agreed goals
• how the tasks of the organisation and the network are divided between different actors
• how the structures of organisations and networks (power, leadership, division of responsibilities) affect the organisation of guidance
• how the operating cultures of the organisation and networks (operating methods, values, rules, language and relationships between actors) affect the organisation of guidance
• how organisations create the conditions for the provision of guidance services and the social interaction required in their operations
• how organisations and networks are a part of the lifelong guidance ecosystem (objectives, regulations, resources, activities and rationale)

The career professional is able to

• understand both their and their organisation's role and position in networked guidance provision
• understand the effects of organisational and network structures and operating methods on the organisation of guidance
• apply organisational and network theories in defining jointly agreed goals for guidance as well as for planning, implementing and evaluating guidance