European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network Database, ELGPN Database

Login

School-to-work transition

Term

School-to-work transition

Definition

The process of moving from education or training to employment, covering the period in which the change takes place.

Comment

Many guidance activities are designed to support people making this transition.
Transition between education and employment (integration path, type of employment – with regard to level and status – and duration) is complex. Integration depends on many factors (gender, age, qualification, employment policy, guidance and counselling provision, etc.).
See also definition of ‘Transition’.

Source

Cedefop (2008a). European Training Thesaurus. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

ELGPN Glossary, employment, transition

Transition

Term

Transition

Definition

The process of moving from one education, employment or training situation to another. This would include a move out of the labour market, for example into unemployment or to look after children, and the move back into employment, education or training after a period of not being in work, education or training.

Comment

Many lifelong guidance activities are designed to support people making transitions of one kind or another.
See also definition of ‘School-to-work transition’.

Source

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

ELGPN Glossary, labour market, unemployment, training, education, transition

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.

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

ELGPN Glossary, career, management, skills, competences, decision-making, transition

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.

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

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

Career counsellor

Term

Career counsellor

Definition

Career counsellors assist people to explore, pursue and attain their career goals.

Comment

Career advisers/counsellors have normally received professional training and possess a recognised professional qualification.
Other definitions include:
• A professional trained in career guidance that is able to assist others to make rational career choices (Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary).
• A career counsellor provides counselling in educational, career and personal domains. A career counsellor assists individuals to achieve greater self-awareness, develop a life/work direction, increase understanding of learning and work opportunities and become self-directed in managing learning, work and transitions (Canada Career Information Partnership, 2006).
Synonym for career adviser and guidance counsellor.

Source

UNESCO (2002). Handbook of Career Counselling. Available from Internet: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001257/125740e.pdf

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001257/125740e.pdf

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

ELGPN Glossary, counsellor, career, guidance, career choice, self-awareness, opportunity, transition

Career counselling

Term

Career counselling

Definition

The interaction between a career/guidance counsellor and an individual.
An individual or group process which emphasises self-awareness and understanding, and facilitates the development of a satisfying and meaningful life/work direction as a basis to guide learning, work and transition decisions, as well as how to manage responses to changing work and learning environments over the lifespan.

Comment

Other definitions include:
• Career counselling facilitates the learning of skills, interests, beliefs, values, work habits, and personal qualities to enable each participant to create a satisfying life in a constantly changing work environment (Krumboltz & Worthington, 1999).
• The career counselling process is focussed on helping individuals not to choose a career but to construct it (Watts, 2000).

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#

Attached files

No attachment files.

Links

http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#

http://www.ccdf.ca/ccdf/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/a_career_development_resource_for_parents_e.pdf

This information was provided/updated by:

 

No comments by users.

ELGPN Glossary, career, counselling, counsellor, self-awareness, transition