Vocational guidance
Term
Vocational guidance
Definition
Help for individuals to make choices about education, training and employment.
Comment
Sometimes used as a synonym for career guidance or guidance.
See related definitions for ‘Career counselling’, ‘Career guidance’, ‘Guidance’.
Source
Hawthorn, R. (1991). Who Offers Guidance. Sheffield: Employment Department.
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Self-service
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Self-service
Definition
A mode of delivery of guidance services in which it is up to the client to select the guidance services, interventions or activities s/he will use.
Comment
In some settings, this is done by the client providing information about him/herself and then being directed automatically to services that might be appropriate. This approach is particularly common where on-line guidance services are being offered as all or part of the guidance service.
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Learning outcomes of guidance
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Learning outcomes of guidance
Definition
The set of knowledge, skills and/or competences an individual has acquired and/or is able to demonstrate after completion of a guidance activity or through participation in the guidance process.
Comment
The proposed definition is related specifically to a guidance context and has been adapted from the more general definition of learning outcomes.
Career guidance has been shown to lead to improved learning outcomes, such as greater access to, and participation in, learning and training, improved retention rates in education and training, greater education and training attainment and higher level skills, improved motivation and hence attainment in education and training (Careers Scotland 2007).
See separate definitions of ‘Economic and social outcomes’ and ‘Guidance outcomes’.
Source
Based on Cedefop (2008b). Terminology of European education and training policy: a selection of 100 key terms. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/hornav/Glossary.csp
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Guidance counsellor
Term
Guidance counsellor
Definition
A trained individual delivering guidance as defined above.
Guidance counsellors assist people to explore, pursue and attain their career goals.
Comment
Synonym for career adviser and career counsellor.
Source
Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary. Result of Leonardo da Vinci programme project “Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling” (project No LT/03/B/F/LA-171023). Available from Internet: http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#
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Guidance
Term
Guidance
Definition
Help for individuals to make choices about education, training and employment.
Comment
Career or vocational guidance is often just called guidance by practitioners. Guidance is in fact an umbrella that encompasses counselling as well as activities such as informing, coaching, teaching, assessment and advocacy.
See earlier comments under ‘Career guidance’.
Sometimes used as a synonym for career guidance or vocational guidance.
Source
Hawthorn, R. (1991). Who Offers Guidance. Sheffield: Employment Department.
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e-guidance
Term
e-guidance
Definition
Counselling or guidance that is delivered using ICT and which may or may not directly involve a guidance counsellor. Frequently used to describe the provision of information or the use of self-assessment tools and exercises via the internet.
Comment
e-guidance covers the provision of guidance activities and services using all forms of ICT, including:
Online Guidance
Guidance provided via ICT, for example using a computer or similar electronic device (e.g. a mobile telephone). May include interaction with a guidance professional via email, webchat, sms or social media (e.g. Facebook). Frequently used to describe the provision of information or the use of self-assessment tools and exercises via the internet.
Telephone guidance
The provision of guidance services via the telephone. It may involve a telephone conversation with a guidance worker or, less frequently, the delivery of pre-recorded information. Similar services are now also provided by webchat, sms or via the internet.
Web guidance
Guidance activities provided via the internet using ICT. This may include the provision of information, the use of self-help materials and tools, as well as more interactive activities, such as participation in forums or discussion groups, and email or web-based discussion with a guidance worker.
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Career centre
Term
Career centre
Definition
A place where people go to receive career guidance.
Comment
A career centre may offer a range of different services or interventions and these may range from self-help materials (e.g. books, information sources or access to ICT-based career support) to one-to-one support from a career counsellor.
It is also possible to envisage a virtual career centre – i.e. an online career portal – being considered as a particular type of career centre.
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Career guidance
Term
Career guidance
Definition
A range of activities that enable citizens of any age, and at any point in their lives, to identify their capacities, competences and interests; to make meaningful educational, training and occupational decisions; and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and other settings in which these capacities and competences are learned and/or used.
Comment
Career guidance is defined in the same way as lifelong guidance.
Guidance is provided in a range of settings: education, training, employment, community, and private.
Career or vocational guidance is often just called guidance by practitioners. Guidance is in fact an umbrella that encompasses counselling as well as activities such as informing, coaching, teaching, assessment and advocacy.
It is treated as a synonym of guidance and vocational guidance. Educational guidance, however, has been treated as a more specific term.
Source
Council of the European Union, (2008). Council Resolution on better integrating lifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies. Available from Internet: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/educ/104236.pdf
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