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Career Guidance and TVET GEMM Governance for Employability in the Mediterranean Turin, 7 May 2015 Helmut Zelloth, ETF Strategic Project Leader of ‘VET Provision and Quality

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Career Guidance and

TVET

GEMM – Governance for Employability in the Mediterranean

Turin, 7 May 2015

Helmut Zelloth, ETF

Strategic Project Leader of ‘VET Provision and Quality’

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Education and youth

unemployment

A paradoxon

… despite youth are better educated than ever before (in EU, OECD but also

developing countries) – phenomenon persists – even ´educated unemployed´

´A disaster´

A lost generation …?

A generation in waithood

A ticking time bomb …

´Scarring effect´ on lifetime prospects

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Career guidance –

a panacea ?

Or part of the solution ?

- Employment

- Employability

- Transitions

Or part of the problem ?

- Impartiality ?

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Universal

truth?

Career choice(s) is one of life’s most

important decisions of every individual

Waste of human talent + human capital +

resources through wrong choices is huge –

but avoidable

Choosing a career that matches the interest,

skills and values of a person, significantly

increases the chances for success +

happiness in life

Free resources for career guidance are

needed to help young people and adults to

make informed and better choices / improve

employability

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EU and OECD say …

Career guidance is important for individuals, but

Career guidance also contributes to public policy goals

- in education and training (efficiency, level and quality of

human capital, address skill shortages, drop-out…)

- in the labour market (better match, mobility, improve labour

supply, workforce preparation, adaptability…)

- in social cohesion and equity (social integration, gender,

citizenship…)

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Paradigm

shift

…has started in EU and OECD countries

from intervention at key points in life

to a lifelong perspective

from psychological ‘testing’ to pedagogical

«tasting the world of work»

from external expert support to

career (self)-management skills

from individual guidance to group-and

self-help approaches

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Changing

Concepts

UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE

From: choosing a career

To: constructing a career

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State of the art

definition

Career Guidance =

• ….services intended to assist

• ….individuals and groups

• ….of any age

• ….at any point throughout their lives

to make

….(a) educational choices

(b) training choices

(c) occupational choices

….and to manage their careers

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Career

management

skills

Access

by all

citizens

Quality

assurance

of provision

Co-ordination

and

co-operation

EU Council Resolution on

Lifelong Guidance (2008)

New priority areas

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What is

Career Guidance ?

Career information

Career education

Career advice / guidance

Career counselling

Services + methods

- on an individual or group basis

- face-to-face or at a distance

- psychological and pedagogical

- interviews, (self)assessment tools, tests, career

planning and management, work experience

programmes, job-search skills training etc

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Choosing the optimal mix of

delivery models(ETF tool)

CURRICULUM

MODEL

(1) Compulsory subject ‘career education’ or similar

(2) Compulsory part of (an)other subject(s)

(3) Compulsory curriculum principle (all or several subjects)

(4) Elective subject ‘career education’ or similar

(5) Part of (an)other elective subject(s)

(6) Part of curricular activities (eg guidance programme)

(7) Part of extra-curricular activities (eg career fairs)

(8) Part of adult education / continuing training module

CENTRE

MODEL

(1) Centre inside school/university

(2) Centre outside school/university specifically for students

(3) Centre for unemployed inside public employment services

(4) Centre for all citizens – in- or outside educational or labour

market settings

INDIVIDUAL

MODEL

(1) Specialist inside school / university / employment services

(school counsellor, school psychologist or pedagogue,

social worker, guidance specialist in employment offices)

(2) Semi-specialist inside school / university / employment

services (eg class teacher, subject teacher,

(deputy)director, employment counsellor, generic career

coordinator or career adviser)

VIRTUAL or

WEB-MODEL

(1) Self-help facility at schools / public employment services /

local communities

(2) Web-based interactive (individual through Internet)

(3) Email-based, SMS guidance

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TVET

and career guidance

Triple role of caeer guidance vis-a-vis TVET

turning point role (when it comes to making

choices for a learning pathway (i.e. TVET), major or

occupation)

supporting role (in critical phases during the

learning or transition process, i.e. preventing drop-out,

encouraging further learning, raising aspirations)

empowerment role (empowering the individual to

become a ‘lifelong learner’, to become/remain employable

throughout life, increased capacity to self-manage various

transitions through ´CMS´ - career management skills)

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TVET

Transition

to specialisation

within TVET

Transition from TVET

to work

Transition

from TVET

to higher / continuing

education and training

Transition

to / from drop-out,

inactivity or unemployment

to TVET

Transition

from basic / general

education

to TVET

TVET and TransitionsTarget areas for career guidance

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GEORGIA

Career Managers in VET Centres (since 2007)pragmatic approach of training a number of teachers and young professionals (psychologists); first full-time guidance practitioners in the country; Initiative of the Ministry of Education in co-operation with an NGO

Job Counselling Centre (2007 pilot)

main target group migrants (potential migrants and reintegration of returning migrants) plus jobseekers in general (as public employment services were abolished in the country); IOM led initiative, donor funded (USAID, Czech Republic, Poland)

National VET Council (2010)established a thematic working group on career guidance

New VET Info Centres (2012)staff trained on career management; centres deal with registration and enrolment of students for public VET providers

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Piloting career education (since 2008) as

elective subject in the curriculum (16 hours) per year; in the

9th grade (so-called ‘orientation year’); students and teachers

hugely enthusiastic about new subject; cost-effective solution

Curriculum framework for career

education developed for grades 6-13; still to be

approved; decision made to expand pilots

National Resource Centre for

Guidance established – first such type of centre

in the region; three Ministries (Education, Labour, Youth)

sharing centre and its staff

New Career Guidance Strategy – under

preparation in 2013

KOSOVO*

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Career guidance policy unit in the Ministry of

Education and a Co-operation Protocol / Memorandum of

Understanding between all stakeholders in guidance (2009) to

further develop the national career guidance system

Web-based Career Information System (2010)

national system to serve all target groups in a lifelong

learning perspective (i.e. databases, self-assessment tools,

web-based questionnaires)

Guidance Oriented Curriculum as a developmental

and holistic approach to education

TURKEY

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Guidance Oriented Curriculum (GOC)

- 7 competence areas in the guidance programs (integrated in the subject curriculum of basic and secondary education, grades 1-12)

among these areas are ´Orientation to the school and environment, ´Academic and career

guidance´, ´Interpersonal relations´ etc

- Special orientation and guidance class in the 9th

grade as part of the guidance program with specific focus on career guidance (before

choosing general or vocational pathways)

- Guidance practitioner in schools has the coordination and consultation

role

- Classroom teacher conducts the program

- 17,000 guidance practitioners in the country

- No impact research available yet, recent master thesis explored

certain variables of effectiveness of GOC

TURKEY

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Parental role models - ‘We need all youngsters’ (campaigning immigrants and refugees, use of peers with similar background) -Denmark

Gender-sensitive employment guide for counsellors - Spain

Gender-sensitive counselling plans in schools – promoting gender equality in schools through career guidance - Finland

In-service training courses on multiculturalism - Finland

Gender – Net – network for promotion of gender mainstreaming - Italy

Girls Day – visits to companies and ‘tasting’ typical male occupations – Germany

Culture and gender-

sensitive

career guidanceA few examples

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Policy

lessons

Integrating career guidance within wider reforms in education, training and labour market

- VET/education reform project could include development of career information system and training of teachers to become guidance teachers

- curriculum reform could go hand in hand with piloting of career education and career managment skills in basic/secondary schools

- labour market project could contain a component to build up or improve career guidance centres in public employment services

Fostering home-grown and demand-driven career guidance services- as opposed to donor- and supply-driven development model

- aiming at service provision which fits real demand, size and contextuality of a country

- methods and tools that are ‘home-grown’ or at least culturally validated

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Policy lessons

Wider access to career guidance services and changing the mode of delivery- resource-efficient approach (career education, group- and self-help)

- decisive shift from a psychological to a pedagogical/hybrid delivery model (building on the new guidance paradigm, eg career self-

management skills, self-empowerment, work-tasting)

- enhanced career information (print- and web-based)

- stronger links between career guidance and entrepreneurship

To consider both informal labour market and informal guidance provision- when shaping new career guidance services in formal/informal economies, career informatin needs to take into account information about the informal labour market

- informal guidance and formal one need to get closer together

Fostering national dialogue + international networking among key actors and stakeholders in guidance- pilot co-operation and co-ordination mechanisms at national level

- make better use of international networks and donor funding (sustainability issue)

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Preparation or escape …?

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Making Career Guidance work = Passion + Vision + Action

If you have vision and action but no passion you will be mediocre………………..

If you have passion and vision but no action you will be daydreaming …………..

If you have passion and action but no vision you will reach the wrong goal………....

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