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Case management

Term

Case management

Definition

A collaborative process which assesses, plans, implements, co-ordinates, monitors and evaluates the options and services required to meet an individual’s health, social care, educational and employment needs, using communication and available resources to promote quality cost-effective outcomes.

Comment

A term originally used to refer to the management of health needs of individuals and families.
Individual case management lies at the heart of preventive strategies to reduce unemployment. This is achieved by identifying appropriate tailor-made intervention measures and by determining the targeted assistance needs of each respective client.

Source

Case Management Society, UK. Definition of case management. Available from Internet: http://www.cmsuk.org/content.aspx?content=4

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ELGPN Glossary, management, services, needs, cost-effective, preventive, unemployment, intervention

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 management

Term

Career management

Definition

An ongoing process of preparing, implementing, and monitoring career plans.

Comment

Sometimes career management is carried out by the individual on their own; but in some situations career management involves others, such as an individual’s employer, working together with the individual.

Source

Storey, W.D. (1976). Career Dimensions I, II, III, and IV. Croton on Hudson, New York: General Electric Company. Cited in Hall, D.T. & Associates (1986). Career Development in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Career development

Term

Career development

Definition

The lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure and transitions in order to move towards a personally determined and evolving future.

Comment

Career development is also used to describe the outcome of this process.
Other definitions include:
• The total constellation of economic, sociological, psychological, educational, physical and chance factors that combine to shape one’s career (Sears, 1982).
• The continuous planning carried out to advance a person's career based on experience and on any training undertaken to upgrade qualifications or to acquire new ones (UNESCO).

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#

Canadian Career Development Foundation (2002). Career Development: A Primer and a Glossary.

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ELGPN Glossary, process, management, transition, career, planning, development