Skill Descriptor: Examine legislation, policies and practices meant to support safe working environments.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Apply safety practices in the workplace, supported by appropriate digital tools (e.g., online safety modules)
• Examine common workplace risks and injuries related to a preferred career pathway and ways to prevent them, using digital or AI-supported tools as appropriate to identify patterns while critically evaluating accuracy and limitations
• Determine employee and employer rights and responsibilities for sustaining and providing a safe working environment
• Identify ways effective health and wellness practices contribute to successful career habits in digital and non-digital contexts
• Explore a variety of legislation, policies, and practices specific to human rights in the workplace (e.g., discrimination, harassment, right to refuse unsafe work and safety, equity policies)

Skill Descriptor: Investigate inclusivity in work environments.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Apply strategies of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in workplace and career situations
• Discuss ways biases contribute to career pathway barriers and how to overcome these barriers, including examining how AI systems may reinforce or reduce bias in career-related contexts
• Critically reflect on the importance of culturally sensitive communication and interactions and their impact on a positive work environment, while recognizing the limitations of AI.
• Demonstrate respectful behaviour of peers and colleagues, including their views and beliefs

Skill Descriptor: Explore models and domains of reflection.

Global Competencies: SASM, CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

• Use the cognitive domain of reflection when reviewing a career pathway document, using tools such as digital journals or structured templates.
• Use the process reflection model when determining your career pathway
• Use critical reflection models to explore career design exemplars, supported by digital tools, with optional use of AI where it meaningfully supports reflection.
• Utilise a variety of models to reflect on career pathways
• Use proper language and suitable cultural conventions to communicate reflections

Skill Descriptor: Create a personal career pathway plan.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Create and/or update career-related documents (e.g., resume, cover letter, portfolio examples, social media) to reflect relevant skills and competencies for chosen career pathway, using digital or AI-supported drafting tools where available, while critically revising content to ensure authentic representation
• Practice and improve interview skills, leveraging technology-supported mock interview environments and reflecting on differences between automated and human feedback, where such tools are used
• Identify how mentors support development of a preferred career pathway without AI, using digital tools and technology as supports
• Identify how skills developed through extra-curricular involvement may support career success

Skill Descriptor: Identify skills and competencies connected to preferred career pathway and/or experiential placement.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Examine personal communication skills and reflect on ways in which they can be further developed (e.g., communication tool activity) with support from digital tools where appropriate, such as audio/video, or peer feedback platforms
• Identify teamwork and collaboration skills of value for chosen career, job, or occupation
• Develop personal growth in teamwork and collaboration skills
• Examine problem-solving strategies and determine ways they can be further developed, including digital or AI-supported tools to compare alternative approaches and justify chosen solutions
• Identify and connect global competencies to preferred career pathway
• Identify workplace roles and responsibilities related to preferred career pathway
• Identify and use personal skills and competencies that are applicable to preferred career pathway
• Practice formative reflection using a variety of reflection models and domains, supported by digital tools such as digital portfolios and journals where appropriate
• Collect evidence of skills development and artifacts demonstrating knowledge, learning, and capacity, using digital tools, with optional AI supports where appropriate, to organize and reflect on learning
• Demonstrates B1.1 and B1.2 language level for personal success

Skill Descriptor: Model proper self-assessment.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Design a transition plan that consolidates the learner’s classroom and workplace learning, including the use of digital or AI-supported tools to explore options while retaining learner-authored goals and decisions
• Critically reflect on the ways knowledge, skills, and activities from the work placement inform the preferred career pathway using appropriate digital tools such as multimedia or digital artefacts
• Create/update a personalized portfolio highlighting knowledge, skills, and abilities gained from workplace experiences using a variety of media and digital tools
• Engage in summative reflection by creating self-reflective documents using specific models and domains of reflection
• Use feedback from educators, peers, partners/mentors, and AI supported tools, where appropriate, to improve career pathway materials, including portfolio, interview skills, job hunting, and applications
• Share a reflective summary of experiences and learnings with evidence and documentation, with peers, educators, and/or partners gained from the course and workplace experiences