Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors, Programme Leader4-5 April, 2011 Session 2 Country example Hungary: How can career guidance facilitate labour market entry of young people? EMCO - PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE ON YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors 2 Registered career-starter job-seekers grouped by education level The Hungarian PES perspective year2010 primary school or less vocational school vocational secondary school or general secondary school higher education total
3 What is Lifelong Guidance (LLG) ? Drehscheibe, plaques tournantes: turntables; turning platformes
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Four components of the national Lifelong Guidance system development – The Hungarian case ( ) 4 The programme rests on four major capacity-building pillars, carrying significant individual and social consequences for all labour market participants: 1.a core network of lifelong guidance professionals, 2.a wider lifelong guidance delivery network on different delivery levels, 3.increase of the number of career guidance professionals, and 4.development of career information tools
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors What we have accomplished? 5 National LLG Portal Regional Professional Network Tools (films, folders, questionnaires Trainings (post-gradual and short ones) Unified protocol of guidance practitioners Country-wide network of counsellors persons 3650 persons (622 qualified) ~ unique visitors/year 42 films, 150 folders, 40+ questionnaires ~50 counsellors International accolade – EU-level evaluation of the phase Creating training materials 10+1 courses
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Different kind of services within the national LLG Programme 6 SELF-SERVICE (NATIONAL LLG PORTAL)NATIONAL LLG PORTAL) INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING GROUP COUNSELLING Group consultation Group development OUTREACH PROGRAMMES DISTANCE COUNSELLING (phone, , chat)
Syllabus for Group Counselling in schools, local PES Office etc. (for example) Introduction, Clarifying expectations (role of the group, working methodology) Speaking about the specialties of group counselling Exploration of Interest Enlargement of Vocational Knowledge Expectations of the Labour Market Link the world of occupations and LM needs with the participant personal needs and social background, personality Personal outcomes of each participant We are offering group counselling in different forms: 3 day-long short version, for a semester in Hi.Ed, school year (2 hrs per a week) in the public ed. for 8-14 students per a group. 7
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Areas to be integrated 8 Knowledge about labour market and education Self-knowledge related to career Knowledge of occupations
New national LLG Portal - eletpalya.munka.hu Knowledge about occupations Detailed information about the official occupations of Hungary (FEOR08, based on ISCO88) Self-knowledge related to career 40+ online questionnaires for different target-groups: - youngsters - career-starters - adults Knowledge about the labour-market Connection with: - NEO statistics - other official statistics + Information about labour-market trends in occupation folders and films Questionnaires suggesting possible occupations to the user ++ 9
Online questionnaires Occupations (FEOR08) NQR Higher education programmes Training opportunities felvi.hu NPP search and browsing functions FoldersFilms An integrative tool – connecting official databases Additional functions and partners 10
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors /2008 individualgroupother individualgroup distance- counselling outreach services individualgroup distance- counselling thematic workshop group develop ment outreach services /2011 individualgroup distance- counselling thematic workshop group develop ment outreach services SROP performance indicators
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Lifelong guidance as a system 1.Bridge-role: make the client able to understand the world of education and work, and the connection between them 2.Holistic approach 1: harmonising the different policies (for the good of the client) 3.Holistic approach 2: dealing with the complete lifespan of the client (a service that is available in every age and life-situation) 4.Labour market aspect: increasing the labour market value of the counsellors and the clients fostering job-creation, employability, flexibility entrepreneurship and active citizenship 12
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Target groups 13 „School-age” (6~23 years) Elementary education: (orientation, choosing career) Vocational education: (life-design competencies) Secondary education: (general secondary schools: orientation, vocational secondary schools: life-design competencies) Higher education: (career counselling) Adults (24-65 years) Active population: (career correction, career endorsing) Inactive population: (orientation, correction, supporting social inclusion through the labour market) Total: ~ 7,4 million Hungarian citizens (Source: STADAT 2009)
Dr. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors Thank you for your attention! 14