Training 1. Description of the training system – initial and ...

Training
1. Description of the training system – initial and continuing training for
professionals in the field of guidance and advisory services
Initial training for specialized career guidance counselors consists of:
- theoretical and practical base including all existing theories and models
in career guidance and counseling, along with their implications and applications;
- studies in psychological assessment methods used in career guidance
and counseling;
- studies in work and organizational psychology;
- practical training in employment services
Recommendations on continuing training needs include:
- To make explicit the types of theories that are appropriate for guidance
and to test and evaluate those theories
- To elaborate a theoretical model for guidance and test and evaluate this
model
- To provide access to guidance workers to training for guidance
- Funding for such training
- The provision of web-based training modules for guidance workers
- To provide opportunities in initial and recurrent training for trainees to
become skilled and confident in using Internet-based guidance resources
- For guidance workers to take responsibility for their continued
professional development in this field
The set of competencies that guidance workers should learn and develop in
initial and recurrent training:
- Knowledge of decision-making styles
- Knowledge of perception of information learning
- Capacity to organize information for clients coming from different
backgrounds
- Ability to evaluate information, web sites, software, client readiness
- Computer literacy especially for guidance delivery
- Self-protection against information overload
- Group facilitation skills of moderating news/chat groups
- Advice-giving and empathy within professional boundaries
- Information-type and client-type counseling skills

offers
- Knowledge of job search skills using the Internet
- Knowledge of target group needs related to Internet education and job
- Knowledge of quality and ethical issues related to web-based guidance
- Intercultural competency to manage transnational guidance
2. Types of training requested to modernize the guidance system
- Training for better knowing and understanding the world of work and
its rapid changes;
- Training for integrating the concept of lifelong learning;
- Training for knowing and using Internet resources for guidance.
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