Users Guide to the Principles for Professional Conduct
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Principles for Career Services Professionals
2. Knowledge of the field and educational institution, possession of requisite skills
"Career services professionals will know the career services
field and the educational institution and students they represent,
and will have appropriate counseling skills." (See Employer
Principle 2)
Career services professionals will deliver competent service, in keeping with the educational mission of the institution and the purpose of the office in which they work.
RationaleStudents assume that the career services office is staffed by individuals with the competence and knowledge just as patients expect this of doctors, clients of lawyers, and students of teachers. Career services professionals' obligation is formed by contract, standards expected by the institution by which they are employed, and agency, the obligation to work in the interest of the student, i.e., as his/her agent, and to do this requires that professionals possess the necessary knowledge and skills.
Career services professionals also are commanded by the requirements of fidelity to their clients and institution. Loyalty requires that they be able to render their services in a manner that meets institutional and student expectations.
Finally, career services professionals are expected by their employers to be able to provide information that facilitates successful recruiting, both in deciding upon which schools to recruit at and how to accomplish this in the most successful manner possible.
