1. CAREER MANAGEMENT SKILLS – POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Miha Lovšin Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for VET International Forum on Educational Guidance 2015 5 November 2015, Genoa

2. Definition of Lifelong Guidance? What? Activities: e.g.information giving, advice, counselling, assessment, teaching, advocacy For whom/With who? All citizens When? Any age and point in their lives Focus? Making meaningful life choices on learning and work. Empowerment to manage learning and career Career? Individual lifepaths in learning, work and in others settings in which these capcities and competences are learned and/or used Where? Education, training, employment, community, private  EU Council of Ministries Resolution on lifelong guidance 2004

3. EU Council: Invitations to Member States 21.11.2008 Encourage the lifelong acquisition of career management skills; Facilitate access by all citizens to guidance services; Develop the quality assurance of guidance provision; Encourage coordination and cooperation among the various national, regional and local stakeholders. Use the opportunities provided under the Lifelong Learning Programme and the European Structural Funds, in accordance with Member States' priorities.

5. Key facts about the ELGPN A member state driven network established 2007 29 members 2 observers A structured tool for European co-operation Enhancement of national solutions to meet national challenges. ELGPN is a conclusion to meet the challenges the policy makers meet in implementing the EU 2020 strategies and the tools supporting the strategy. ELGPN is supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus + (former LLP)

6. Long term objectives Support for policy development Policy sharing Information gathering Policy analysis and research Use of reference tools Exploiting project outcomes Strengthening representative structures

7. Career Mangement Skills (CMS) Transition learning Decision learning Opportunity awareness Self aawareness Refer to a range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals and groups to: 1.gather, analyze, synthesize and organize self, 2.gather, analyze, synthesize and organize educational and occupational information, 3.skills to make and implement decisions 4.skills to make and implement transitions.

8. Overlooked?

9. Policy Implementation „Most policies are ‘ramshackle, compromise, hit- and-miss affairs that are reworked, tinkered with, nuanced and inflected through complex processes of influence, text production, dissemination and, ultimately, re-creation in contexts of practice“ (Ball 1998: 121).

10. Clear and justified goals Right people on right place Considering the place of implementation Considering the pace of implementation

11. Why CMS? Negotiating a lifetime of job changes without losing a sense of self and social identity. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/

12. Proving the effectivness of CMS development

13. How to implement the policy

14. The people involved in the implementation

15. The place of implementation SchoolsVETHigher educationAdult educationEmploymentSocial inclusion Budget Politics

16. The Pace of Implementation

17. Success Factors Existence of CMS legal regulations that are incorporated both in education and labour legislation. Permanent financing of the CMS activities. Close cooperation between education and employment sector between policy makers and policy practitioners in designing and implementing CMS policy. Functioning of operational communication platform focused on CMS policy formulation/ implementation whose members are influential policy makers, policy practitioners, experts and researchers from educational and employment sector. CMS policy design and implementation as both short and long term planned and gradual process. CMS policy displayed/ implemented in systematic CMS content development, CMS service delivery and CMS staff development. CMS quality assurance system in function.

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