Employment counselling/guidance
Term
Employment counselling/guidance
Definition
Counselling or guidance that addresses one or more of the following domains: career/ occupational decision-making, skill enhancement, job search and employment maintenance. Activities include assessment, development and implementation of an action plan, follow-up and evaluation.
Comment
The outcome of employment counselling is to help clients improve their employability and self-sufficiency in the labour market.
Source
Canada Career Information Partnership (2006). A Career Development Resource for Parents. Available from Internet: http://www.ccdf.ca/ccdf/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/a_career_development_resource_for_parents_e.pdf
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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ELGPN Glossary, employability, employment, guidance, counselling, decision-making
Co-operation mechanisms
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Co-operation mechanisms
Definition
Processes, systems or organisational structures used to facilitate people or organisations working together.
Comment
Lifelong guidance requires co-operation between partners, within existing structures. This might be largely informal in nature, or based on a co-operation agreement with decision-making powers being retained by each partner.
Co-operation mechanisms could cover a variety of settings, e.g. between different levels in education/training, across national boundaries, or between education and the labour market. They could also cover co-operation between individuals working in different settings or between the organisations they work for.
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Career management skills
Term
Career management skills
Definition
A range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals (and groups) to gather, analyse, synthesise and organise self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions.
Comment
Career management skills are the life, learning, training and employment skills which people need to develop and manage their careers effectively.
Source
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (2010). Lifelong Guidance Policies: Work in Progress. A report on the work of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network 2008–10.
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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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Career education
Term
Career education
Definition
Programmes and activities of learning to help people to develop the skills necessary to manage their career and life pathway. These include accessing and making effective use of career information and guidance.
Comment
Other definitions include:
• The systematic cooperation of educational institutions, parents and society in assisting young people and adults to acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to make rational vocational decisions (Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary).
• The development of knowledge, skills and attitudes through a planned programme of learning experiences in education and training settings which will assist students to make informed decisions about their study and/or work options and enable effective participation in working life (Australian Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 1998).
Source
Institute of Career Guidance: Careers Education Committee. Available from Internet: http://www.icg-uk.org/careerseducationcommittee.html
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Career decision-making
Term
Career decision-making
Definition
The process of making a choice between particular career alternatives.
Comment
This definition does not set out to describe the nature of the process (e.g. rational, logical, etc) by which a career decision has been made or what aspects (e.g. individual, job characteristics, etc) have been considered. An alternative definition of career decision that emphasises these elements is:
• The choice of a particular option as the result of a logical series of steps used to identify and match individual aims and organisational development/labour market needs (Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary).
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ELGPN Glossary, career, choice, decision-making