Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
Pearson BTEC Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits60
- Guided learning410 hours
- Units in this qualification23
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advocate on behalf of clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practice of advocacy
- Understand the role and purpose of advocating on behalf of clients
- Advocate on behalf of clients to meet their career-related needs
Agree the purpose of client-centred career guidance interviews and maintain communication with clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques used to agree the purpose of careers guidance interviews with clients
- Understand the media used to communicate with clients
- Agree with clients the purpose of career guidance interviews
- Maintain communication with the client during the client-centred interview
Assist clients to apply for learning, training and workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand application processes and procedures for learning, training and work
- Assist clients making applications for learning, training and work
- Evaluate with clients outcomes of the application process for learning, training and work
Career guidance theoryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand careers guidance theories
- Understand theories of motivation and their application in careers guidance
- Understand concepts and models to support clients in career planning and development
- Understand the role and purpose of research to inform career guidance theory and practice
- Understand theories of change management in career guidance
- Understand the application of careers guidance theories, concepts and models to support own practice
Continuously improve career development work in an organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand professional standards for career development work
- Understand the key research findings that demonstrate the value and impact of career development work
- Undertake and lead reviews and evaluations of career development work
- Lead developments in career development work
- Lead and manage continuing professional development for colleagues involved in career development work
Engage with support networks to help clients to meet their career-related needsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and rationale for working with support networks to help clients to meet their career-related needs
- Agree how support networks will help clients to meet their career-related needs
Evaluate service provisionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods to evaluate and report on service provision in the organisation
- Evaluate service provision
- Report on the outcomes of the organisation’s evaluation of service provision
Explore and agree the career guidance and development needs of clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methodologies to explore client career guidance and development needs
- Understand methods to agree client career guidance and development needs
- Understand how to evaluate the impact on clients of career guidance and development
- Analyse client career guidance and development needs
- Agree action plans with clients to meet their career guidance and development needs
- Evaluate with clients the impact of career guidance and development
Lead and manage career development work in an organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand models for the role of career development leader in an organisation
- Promote career development work within an organisation
- Work with senior leaders to develop policy for career development work
- Plan the overall programme of career development work within an organisation
- Manage colleagues and resources in order to deliver career development work
- Manage effective partnerships to deliver career development work
- Commission careers guidance services for an organisation
Obtain and organise career-related information to support clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of career related information required by clients and organisations
- Understand the organisation and management of career-related information
- Obtain career-related information to meet organisational and client needs
Plan and Design Career Related Learning ProgrammesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the aims of career related learning fit into the overall aims of an identified learning institution.
- Understand how career related learning is interpreted and delivered in different institutions.
- Understand how the aims of career related learning can be translated into programmes of learning and work.
- Design a career related learning programme of work.
- Identify and negotiate with others suitable delivery methods.
- Evaluate the career related learning programme and make recommendations for improvement.
Plan, deliver and evaluate career-related learning in groupsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of how people learn in groups
- Understand methodologies to plan, deliver and evaluate career-related learning in groups to meet needs
- Plan career-related learning in groups
- Deliver career-related learning in groups
- Evaluate career-related learning in groups
Prepare to deliver services to clients in an outreach settingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of outreach settings to deliver services
- Understand autonomous working to deliver services in outreach settings
Preparing to work in the career information, advice and guidance sectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the career information, advice and guidance sector
- Understand own careers information, advice and guidance organisation
- Understand roles within the careers information, advice and guidance organisation
- Understand working practices within the careers information, advice and guidance organisation
- Understand the impact of legislative policy and professional codes of practice on the careers information, advice and guidance organisation
- Understand the impact of equality, diversity and inclusion in the careers information, advice and guidance organisation
Promote career-related learning to clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the policy context for career-related learning
- Understand the characteristics of career-related learning
- Understand the promotion of career-related learning to clients
- Negotiate with external organisations to promote career-related learning
- Implement career-related learning promotional activities
- Evaluate career-related learning promotional activities
Provide ongoing support to clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of ongoing support for clients to meet their career-related needs
- Provide ongoing support for clients to meet their career-related needs in accordance with the organisation’s protocols
Reflect on and improve professional practiceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand reflective practice
- Understand methodologies used to reflect on practice
- Understand the need for continuous professional development as a careers information, advice and guidance practitioner
- Reflect on own performance as a career information, advice and guidance professional
- Improve own practice through continuous professional development
Source, evaluate and use Labour Market Intelligence with clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Labour Market Intelligence required by clients
- Understand methods for using Labour Market Intelligence with clients
- Use Labour Market Intelligence with clients
- Evaluate the use of Labour Market Intelligence by clients
Understand how to support specific client groups to overcome barriers to learning, training and workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative and policy context for working with specific clients groups
- Understand barriers to learning, training and work for specific client groups
- Understand services designed for specific client groups
Undertake research on behalf of the serviceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the research requirements of the careers information, advice and guidance service and its clients
- Understand research methods used in careers information, advice and guidance services
- Agree research requirements for career information, advice and guidance
- Source evidence and information to meet the needs of the service and its clients
- Analyse research evidence and information
- Report on research outcomes to meet the needs of the service and its clients
Use career and Labour Market Information with clientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and purpose of career-related information
- Assist client access to career-related information
Using Diagnostic and Assessment Tools with ClientsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and application of diagnostic and assessment tools
- Use diagnostic and assessment tools with clients
Work with other agencies for the benefit of clients and the organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of networks that support career information, advice and guidance
- Understand the networks supporting the delivery of career information, advice and guidance by the organisation
- Understand the benefit of specialist support to meet the needs of clients and the service
- Understand the principles of negotiation
- Collabourate with other agencies for the benefit of clients and the organisation
- Refer clients to sources of specialist support
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
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- Continuously develop your practice
- Enable support networks to develop their effectiveness
Where this can lead
Lead Career Coach / Principal Career Strategist
Your journey as a Lead Career Coach at Zavmo isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a significant career in talent leadership. We're committed to helping you build the skills and experience to get wherever you want to go, whether that's leading a team, becoming a deep expert, or eventually shaping the talent strategy for an entire organisation.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Advocate on behalf of clients
- Agree the purpose of client-centred career guidance interviews and maintain communication with clients
- Assist clients to apply for learning, training and work
- Career guidance theory
- Continuously improve career development work in an organisation
- Engage with support networks to help clients to meet their career-related needs
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.