SHOTSHaring Orientation Training

LLP ProgrammeLeonardo da Vinci Action

Partnership Measure

Guidance and counselling: sharing patterns

The directions of the EU:Commission of the European Community

Memorandum on lifelong learning Brussels 30.10.2000

key message n. 5 : “Rethinking Guidance and Counselling”

Guidance as a contionuously accessible service for all

In the past Moving between education, training and the labour market happened only once in most people’s lives.

Today We may need information on “what to do next” several times in the life, and perhaps unpredictably.

Ours society is characterized by so many and so quick changes that Orientation becomes a strategic instrument for the personal growth, the social equality and the efficient allocation of resources.

The new Approach to the Orientation and Guidance • Placing needs and demands of the users at the

center of concern • The operator/practitioner’s task is to accompany

individuals on their unique journey through life• The services must be locally accessible

Orientation guidance and counselling

Public or Private?

What orientation would have to become:

• Giving citizens the skills to manage their future professional lifetime on their own, linking their skills and interests with the educational and vocational training and to the job market needs of the moment

• Supporting school and other vocational training bodies to find students well motivated and conscious of their specific needs and skills

• Supporting the enterprises in having dependent workers with the right motivations to learn inside and outside the workplace.

• Giving the right value to each individual on the base of the right evaluation and analysis of each CV and profile.

Orientation concerns all target groups: young people under 25”, adults unemployed or on vocational training or re-training; prisoners and ex-offenders

Objective: Helping young or adult trainees define a professional project

Target groups : Unemployed young people under 25 and adults, prisoners and ex-offenders

Contents : Part of training in learning centre, work placement, job search techniques, preparation to recruitment interviews, orientation tests (RIASEC, BIG FIVE), stress, emotion and time management workshops.

Objectives – Targets and contents

GUIDANCE TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROFESSIONAL PROJECT

OBJECTIVE : HELPING BENEFICIARIES DEFINE A PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE AND CONSTRUCT A TRAINING ITINERARY TO REACH THEIR GOAL

TARGET GROUP : UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER 26, SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, WITH NO OR LOW QUALIFICATION, PRISONERS

CONTENTS : MULTIPLE ORIENTATION TESTS AND INTERVIEWS TO DETERMINE INTERESTS AND PROJECT, VALIDATION ON THE JOB DURING A SHORT PLACEMENT

THIS PHASE SHOULD LEAD TO TRAINING IN THE CHOSEN QUALIFICATION

SKILLS BALANCE FOR YOUNG WORKERS

OBJECTIVE : HELPING YOUNG WORKERS OR THOSE WITH SHORT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ASSESS THEIR SKILLS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A PROFESSIONAL PROJECT OR DEFINE A NEW ORIENTATION AND TRAINING PATHWAY.

TARGET GROUP : YOUNG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE UNDER 26, WITH NON FORMAL QUALIFICATION

CONTENTS : MULTIPLE ORIENTATION TESTS AND INTERVIEWS TO ASSESS ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE, REDEFINE INTERESTS AND NEW ORIENTATION PROJECT, INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSIONALS FROM THE DESIRED QUALIFICATIONTHIS PHASE SHOULD LEAD TO RETRAINING IN THE CHOSEN QUALIFICATION OR JOB SEARCH

SKILLS BALANCE FOR ADULT WORKERS

OBJECTIVE : HELPING WORKERS WITH SUBSTANTIAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ASSESS THEIR SKILLS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A PROFESSIONAL PROJECT OR DEFINE A NEW ORIENTATION AND TRAINING PATHWAY.

TARGET GROUP : EXPERIENCED WORKERS WITH FORMAL OR NON FORMAL QUALIFICATION WILLING TO REORIENTATE

CONTENTS : MULTIPLE ORIENTATION TESTS AND INTERVIEWS TO ASSESS ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE, REDEFINE INTERESTS AND NEW ORIENTATION PROJECT, INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSIONALS FROM THE DESIRED QUALIFICATION

THIS PHASE SHOULD LEAD TO RETRAINING IN THE CHOSEN QUALIFICATION OR JOB SEARCH

SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL DYNAMISATION COURSE

Objective : Helping unemployed and maybe marginalised learners develop the skills that will allow for professional integration

Target groups : • Long-term unemployed learners • Young school drop-outs without a minimum qualification or

diploma• Learners with peripheral problems likely to affect their social

and professional integration (housing, social and financial difficulties).

• Contents : Reading/writing, varied evaluation tests, personal project, competencies for integration in the labour market

CORE SKILLS TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Objective : Helping learners develop the minimum required skills that will allow for professional integration

Target group : Learners with very low academic levels, foreigners who need to improve language of the hosting country as a basic skill.

Contents : Reading/writing, varied evaluation tests, work on a personal project, identification of required competencies for integration in the labour market.

PERSONALISED PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS

OBJECTIVE : HELPING WORKERS WILLING TO PREPARE FOR EXAMINATIONS OR SELECTION TESTS DEFINE A PERSONAL TRAINING PROGRAM TOWARDS THEIR OBJECTIVE.

TARGET GROUP : ALL TARGET GROUPS

CONTENTS : ORIENTATION TESTS, SKILLS EVALUATION AND INTERVIEWS TO ASSESS ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE, CHOICE OF ACCESSIBLE EXAMINATIONS OR PROFESSIONAL TESTS, INTENSIVE ACADEMIC PRACTICE IN ALL REQUIRED SUBJECTS

From vocational guidance to skills balance

Biographical path and mapping of competences• Assessment and mapping of expectations and potentials, reflections on

gaps • Realising and reductioning of fears related mainly to future expectations • Improving self esteem for work and learn autonomously • Information on trends and current needs in labour market• Vocational information, • First interview to find out individual competences

Assisted self guidance:• realise and reflect upon individual strenghts/ weaknesses/ interests and

competences• Mapping of vocational needs and individual interests/skills for further

gateway to work• Self evaluation of the guidance restults;

Working on realistic perspectives:• Planning of next steps and individual training or professional pathway • Preparing to start work life or vocational training • Supporting improvement of social and management skills/ competences• Preparing job interviews and questions on their family and social

background of the applicant, his/her self-assessment, motivation to learn, involvement and management, willingness and ability to take responsabilty, social and communicative competence, multi-dimensional thinking, customer-orientation, self-esteem, managerial skills and efficiency