Career professionals work in multiprofessional cooperation with other professionals at different phases of individual and group guidance processes. The areas that require a division of labour in guidance are support for functional capacity and well-being, skills development and career development and life planning.

The career professional has knowledge and understanding of

• various parallel perspectives and background factors that are affecting guidance situations
• different concepts used by different organisations to describe guidance work
• guidance as a continuum and a networked service
• operational plans for the guidance provision both in their organisation and in collaborative partner organisations, as well as jointly agreed overall goals for guidance
• the responsibilities, resources, competency areas and tasks of different career professionals in local collaborative networks
• their role and position in networking at different phases of the guidance process for individuals or groups
• boundaries of their profession and competency in guidance work (see also sections A1.2 Professional responsibility both B3.2 Reflecting and setting goals )

The career professional is able to

• examine client situations from multiple perspectives
• interact with career professionals working in different administrative sectors as peers
• respect different perspectives in guidance and tolerate ambiguity in the guidance situations
• articulate underpinning concepts and principles concerning their work
• compile a common understanding from different perspectives as a foundation for multiprofessional work
• establish appropriate collaborative relations
• work in various multiprofessional working groups and cooperation networks and agree upon referring their client to another service provider in their network if necessary
• during multidisciplinary cooperation ensure that responsibility for the client's guidance process is clearly defined between the actors (see also section C3.2 Multisectoral networking)
• identify the significance of multiprofessional cooperation for the development of guidance activities in their organisation (see also section C4.3 Continuous development)