1. Lifelong Guidance for jobseekers - ‘The need for this project’
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2. ‘EU to be the most competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010’
Lisbon agenda
‘EU to be the most competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010’
Changing labour market
→ people need to invest more in their own employability:
develop additional competencies
manage their own career
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3. Career guidance has a central role:
Support citizens in transitions
Encourage to develop additional competencies
Stimulate to self-management of the career
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4. Career guidance:
“refers to services and activities to assist individuals throughout their lives to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers.”
(OECD, 2004)
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5. Project ‘Lifelong guidance for jobseekers’:
Exchange of good practices between:
VDAB – Flanders Belgium
AFSZ – Hungary
UPSVAR – Slovakia
LE FOREM – Wallonia Belgium
During 4 meetings in each country, march-november 08
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6. Exchange of good practices on:
Integration of guidance activities within lifelong learning strategies
Further development of lifelong access to career guidance
= two challenges in the development of lifelong guidance-systems, formulated by:
Sultana and Watts, ‘Career Guidance in Europe’s PES’, 2005
Cedefop, ‘Career development at work’, 2008
OECD, ‘Career guidance, a handbook for policy makers’, 2004
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7. Challenge: Integration of guidance activities within LLL-strategies
Lifelong learning =
‘Facilitating personal development and employability to
all citizens through continuous engagement with
education and training, assisting them to find their way
through increasingly diversified but linked learning pathways,
to identify their transferable skills, and to validate their non-
formal and formal learning.’
PES: gateway to LLL (Sultana and Watts) +
helping people develop ‘career planning skills’ (OECD)
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8. Long-term goals - Short-term goals | |
Tension between:
Long-term goals - Short-term goals
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Employability and LL Short-term placements
Customers = ‘possiblities’ - Customers = ‘problems’
Active role = customer Active role = the professional
Coach = the professional
 Challenge:
helping customers to get a job AND equipe them with their own career
engine
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9. Challenge: Further development of lifelong access to career guidance
= provide lifelong access to all persons, regardless of their situation
Current situation: not everyone has access to
career guidance – measures are made
Challenge:
‘to find cost effective ways to expand citizen’s
access to career services through the lifespan”
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