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THE MANAGE YOUR CAREER PARTNERS
MANAGE YOUR CAREERINCREASING THE CAPACITY OF YOUR ORGANISATION
TO ASSIST JOB SEEKERS IN DEVELOPING CAREER
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
This project has been funded with support from theEuropean Commission. This publication
(communication) is the sole responsibility of thepublisher and the Commission cannot be heldresponsible for any use which may be made of
the information contained therein.
1. WHAT IS MANAGE YOUR CAREER?
Manage Your Career is a methodology, a competencyframework and a one day training course specificallydeveloped for career guidance practitioners to use intheir work with job seekers. The methodology has beendeveloped by a partnership from across Europe, withinputs from guidance practitioners and employers fromIreland, the UK, Spain, Austria and Hungary.
THE METHODOLOGY CONSISTS OF:
• A competency framework defining ten career management competencies important in managing one’s career
• A competency checklist for practitioners which can be used as a support tool in the guidance process
2. WHY BE INTERESTED IN CAREER MANAGEMENT?
‘Career management skills play a decisive role inempowering people to become involved in shaping theirlearning, training and integration pathways and theircareers’ (Council Resolution on better integratinglifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies, Nov2008. Council of the European Union).
According to Cedefop in their review of lifelong guidanceacross Europe (2011), Career management skills helppeople to identify their existing skills and explore thelearning goals necessary to improve their employabilityand social inclusion. Career Management skills aretherefore essential for assisting people to achieve theirpotential and to empower them in an ever changinglabour market.
6. HOW CAN GUIDANCE PRACTITIONERS USE IT?
The partnership has developed and piloted a one day training course for guidance practitionersin incorporating this methodology into their practice.
7. WHAT TO DO NEXT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED?
Contact one of the Manage Your Career partner organisations below!
IRELAND: Ballymun Job Centre: [email protected]
UK: GEMS NI: [email protected]
SPAIN: Ayuntamiento De Oviedo: [email protected]
AUSTRIA: Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH [email protected]
HUNGARY: Heves County Chamber of Commerce and Industry [email protected]
MANAGE YOUR CAREER Increasing the capacity of your organisation to
assist job seekers in developing career
management skills
3. WHAT IS CAREER MANAGEMENT?
There are many definitions of Career Management Skillsused in literature but the Manage Your Career methodhas adopted a definition proposed by member states. ‘Career Management skills refer to a whole range ofcompetences which provide structured ways forindividuals and groups to gather, analyse, synthesiseand organise self, educational and occupationalinformation as well as the skills to make and implementdecisions and transitions.’ (Sultana, 2009a).
Member states have also been encouraged to assistprofessionals working in lifelong guidance and VocationalEducation and Training (VET) to acquire the necessaryskills to support their client groups to develop and applyCareer Management Skills in periods of transition andthroughout their working lives. (Lifelong guidance acrossEurope; reviewing policy progress and future prospects,2011)
4. WHO IS INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT?
Manage Your Career is an EU partnership project fundedthrough the Leonardo da Vinci strand of the EUs LifelongLearning Programme. The project sought to investigatethe concept of Career Management and identify thecompetencies which all employees need to develop inorder to manage their own careers throughout their lives.
THE PARTNERSHIP CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS:
IRELAND: Ballymun Job Centre (Dublin)
HUNGARY: Heves Megyei Kereskedelmi es Iparkamara (Heves County Chamber of Commerce and Industry) (Eger)
NORTHERN IRELAND: GEMS NI Ltd. (Belfast)
SPAIN: Ayuntamiento De Oviedo (Oviedo City Council)
AUSTRIA: HafelekarUnternehmensberatung Schober GmbH (Innsbruck)
5. WHAT CLIENT GROUPS WILL IT WORK BEST WITH:
This methodology has been developed specifically forguidance practitioners working with disadvantaged jobseekers but has the potential to be used with all jobseekers.
The Bruges Communiqué (2010) calls for EU memberstates to ‘ensure (at national levels) that keycompetences and career management skills areadequately integrated in Initial Vocational Education andTraining curricula and that they can be acquired throughtraining opportunities in Continuing Vocational Educationand Training’.
The competencies identified in the Manage Your Careermethodology are important for all workers across Europeto develop. The Manage Your Career training thereforecould be adapted to meet the needs of guidancepractitioners working with a variety of job seekers in bothinitial and continuing Vocational Education and Training.