Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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The main areas for the counsellor’s attention, in order to get enough information for a
precise diagnosis, refer to skills, abilities, personality and interests. The same areas
are assessed in BD – BG counselling in the light of the multicultural situation.
Accordingly the BD – BG counsellors should consider also the following assessment
areas: differences in the environment of the above mentioned categories’ application
as well as client’s linguistic competencies, cultural and behavioural competence in
regard with the professional life in the country where the client will work, influential
factors such as family, religion, orientation towards native country’s dominating
criteria in decision making or those of the current culture, etc.
However, no matter the type of activity, the counsellor can use these instruments – in
fact, their selection depends on the counselling problem and on the strategy decided
by the specialist. The career counsellors can generally use two assessment methods
during the process: a non-standardized form (or qualitative, informal) and a
standardized one (formal, quantitative).
3. Course 3: Types of Assessment Instruments
3.1 Learning Objectives
• The BD – BG counsellor is familiar with the main areas for a precise diagnosis
concerning career guidance and advice giving refer to skills, abilities, personality
and interests. (TAX 2 – foundation competences, client-interaction competences)
• The BD – BG counsellor learns to use only those instruments that have been
adapted for the target populations (BD – BG). (TAX 3 – foundation competences)
• The BD – BG counsellor learns to exercise critical judgment when they use
standardized assessment tools and methods in the context of BD – BG. (TAX 3 –
foundation competences)
• The course gives the BD – BG counsellor an overview of approaches to an
assessment of vocational interests and testing of vocational abilities from
multicultural perspectives. (TAX 3 – foundation competences)
3.2 Unit 1: Formal Assessment
The standardized instruments are based on statistic calculation and reporting to the
group and have formal procedures to administrate and score, those procedures
cannot change anytime the test is administrated. The standardized assessment
instruments are designed to collect objective information about the client (personality
and behaviour features). The instruments that are mostly used are the formal
interviews and tests. Moreover, the computer tests started to be widely used – selfapplied
or with a trainer. Implementation of standardized tests requires specific
training. The advantages of these methodologies are that they provide comparatively
reliable results which can be compared with defined norms of population.
Implementation of standardized tests has its limitations.
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