Page 5 - Employers-and-Guidance-process

Introduction

UNESCO has set a sustainable increase in the number of
young people and adults with relevant qualifications,
including technical and vocational skills for employment,
adequate work and entrepreneurship as one of the 2030
Education Goals .
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Technological progress creates the need for a skilled
workforce capable of adapting rapidly in a lifelong learning
cycle , giving a challenge to the school that must
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accompany this development, promoting the development
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of skills required for independent living in the 21 century.

Career interventions in an educational context are a
powerful and effective method to help bring school and the
labour market closer together, preparing young people
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with the skills to face the challenges of the future. It also
contributes to reinforcing pupils' engagement in their
educational process and motivating them to lifelong
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learning.

This process implies that the school to keep contacts and a
deeper knowledge of the labour market and of potential
employers, to improve the way it communicates its
educational work and the results achieved, to support the
students in activities of exploration and approach to the
labour context and support in the student’s transition.