Career professionals critically evaluate, refine, and renew their work in collaboration with clients, colleagues, various actors in guidance and stakeholders.

The career professional has knowledge and understanding of

• underpinning principles and features of critical reflection
• underpinning conceptions, values and attitudes as well as thinking and operating models related to working as a career professional (see also section B2 Guidance and learning theories)
• the boundaries of their profession and competency (see also A1.2 Professional responsibility)
• the background and societal basis for organising guidance (see also section C1.1 Guidance in society)
• the systemic nature of guidance (see also section C Systemic competency)

The career professional is able to

• evaluate the ethical, theoretical, and philosophical principles behind their activities and their impact on guidance work (see also section B2.6 Guidance philosophy)
• critically examine their activities in different guidance relationships and guidance-related processes in accordance with the ethical guidelines and principles of the field
• assess the development of their competency and professional identity, and identify their strengths and areas for development
• identify and evaluate the outcomes and impact of their activities from the perspective of the individual, the guidance process, and their organisation and the wider society
• critically evaluate and renew their work in cooperation with clients, various collaborative partners and stakeholders
• describe the role and locus of guidance as part of the basic task of their own organisation and policy sector