Career professionals ensure that in the learning process related to career planning, clients and groups learn to assess and develop their strengths and competency in relation to the opportunities provided by the operating environment. The guidance process highlights transversal skills that enable individuals to observe changes in their operating environment, specify learning targets for themselves, develop their resilience and actively produce change and development in their own lives and careers.

The career professional has knowledge and understanding of

• the importance of lifelong competency development and lifelong learning in an individual's lifespan
• career planning as a lifelong continuum of and as a learning process
• career management skills as independent, learnable transversal competency
• the importance of career management skills in different life situations and transitions
• essential theoretical knowledge and research related to learning
• factors and operating models related to the recognition and validation of prior learning
• factors affecting clients' learning ability, resilience and well-being, neuropsychological challenges and their impact on learning, competency development, career planning and the implementation of plans
• identify the impact of the client's previous study experiences on career planning and the implementation of plans
• the importance of general working life skills in career planning and employment

The career professional is able to

• apply functional and problem-based working methods in guidance
• create functional and problem-based learning situations that enable clients to acquire their career management skills and provide guidance with clients in acquiring their self-assessment skills so that they are able to describe their strengths, competency and areas for development
• provide guidance with the client in acquiring their study and self-regulation skills
• support clients in using digital technology and developing information retrieval skills
• identify common problems related to learning and study skills and, if necessary, refer the client to learning support services
• provide guidance with clients to act to achieve their plans and goals
• provide guidance with clients to acquire self-reflection and self-assessment skills so that they are able to analyse their learning process and the development of their transversal skills