Frameworks
CICA School Career Development Service Benchmarking Resource
This resource has been developed for principals and leadership teams of schools to help them get the best value and outcomes from their career development services. The resource describes the features of a contemporary school-based career development service and sets out progressive performance benchmarks that enable schools to review their service delivery.
Schools can use this resource repeatedly as a quality improvement tool, to stimulate thinking about the aims of their career development service, how to achieve these aims, and how to continue to meet the changing career development needs of students within a rapidly changing world of work.
Although this resource is intended to be used by schools, the main elements could be adapted and customised for use in other sectors
CICA School Career Benchmarking Resource
Australian Blueprint for Career Development
The Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the Blueprint) is a framework used to design, implement, and evaluate intentional career development learning for people of all ages and stages, beginning in early childhood.
It has a solid foundation in career development theory to explore and identify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a person needs to make sound choices and effectively manage their career. In the Blueprint, these are referred to as career management competencies.
Professional career development practitioners primarily use the Blueprint.
The Blueprint Resources are available here
CICA Guiding Principles for Career Development Services and Career Information Products
These Guiding Principles for Career Development Services and Career Information Products were designed to provide all those who offer such career development services and career information products with a clear and simple set of criteria with which to assess and continuously improve the quality of their services or products. Their widespread use will also enable clients to make judgements about the quality of the services and products they receive.
UPDATE
The new edition of the Guiding Principles for Career Development Services and Career Information Products will be published on 25 March 2026.
Guiding Principles for Career Development Services Information 2007
Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework
The Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework (the CSfW) describes a set of non-technical skills, knowledge and understandings that underpin successful participation in work. Participation in work could be as an employee, as someone who is self-employed, or as a volunteer.
This set of non-technical skills, often referred to as generic or employability skills, contribute to work performance in combination with technical or discipline specific skills and core language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills
