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April 7, 2022

ILO – Policy guidance note: Digitalising career guidance services

This policy guidance note provides advice to decision makers, managers and technical staff on how to invest in digitalising career guidance services There is a need to rationalise decisions on investment in digital tools for career guidance so that they are useful and address the needs of beneficiaries and clients. Their choice and design should […]

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March 23, 2022

Towards European standards for monitoring and evaluation of lifelong guidance systems and services (Vol. I)

This publication brings together the results of a call for papers on monitoring and evaluating career guidance systems and services, adopting the perspective of career development support to careers and learning. Experts were invited to provide insights into the current situation, with a focus on the methodological options available for monitoring and evaluating adult career […]

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February 8, 2022

A Review of National Career Development Support Systems – Armenia, Moldova, Panama and Viet Nam

Among international organisations, there is a consensus that career guidance and career development have an essential role in meeting the changing character of skills demand for skills in labour markets around the world. As part of the recovery, career guidance and career development can enhance re-employment and longer-term labour market engagement by supporting individuals in […]

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December 10, 2021

A Fresh Look at Guidance Practitioner Professionalism

Cedefop has monitored quality assurance in guidance systems for over 20 years. Recently, it has embarked on updating its work on professionalism in career guidance, which goes back to 2009 when it published a study on professional standards and the design of a framework. Today, Cedefop’s online Inventory of lifelong guidance systems and practices, launched in 2020, […]

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December 7, 2021

National Skills Commission release – State of Australia’s Skills 2021

  The NSC report State of Australia’s Skills 2021: now and into the future finds the shape of Australia’s workforce is changing as our labour market responds to big forces like an ongoing shift to services and higher-skilled jobs, advances in technology and growing automation. A November Labour Market update has also been developed to support the report. Some […]

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