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To improve quality and increase availability of serves the online community of the career gui-
guidance services, Euroguidance Slovenia signifi- dance and counselling practitioners by providing
cantly upgraded and presented a new version of them with relevant resources for their day-to-day
the Where and How online guidance tool for their work. In 2017, Euroguidance Romania promoted
guidance counsellors, students, job seekers and many resources for professional development 3
all individuals interested in a career change. The such as books, presentations, conferences, from
tool is free of charge and widely used in almost the field of career counselling and guidance. The
all Slovenian schools and employment offices. Facebook page makes resources more visible and
The Facebook page of Euroguidance Romania increases their popularity.

Professionalisation

of guidance

All the Euroguidance Centres across Europe have taken active measures to
support the professional development of guidance professionals regarding
the international and intercultural dimension of their daily work practice. The
starting point is that every guidance counsellor should have knowledge about
how the processes of providing guidance for learning mobility and adapting
to a new culture look like. In this way internationally aspired clients and/or
customers with a different cultural/ethnic background can be better guided
on their learning and career paths.
Screenshot of the Facebook page of Euroguidance Romania
As well as this, cross-border networking, active engagement in European
project cooperation and participation in international events and study
Euroguidance Austria developed a relationship visits are having an increasing importance for guidance counsellors’ ongoing
with the Austrian online career platform what- professional development. The role and function of the whole Euroguidance
chado, a well-known career platform in the Ger- network is to contribute to enhancing this internationally orientated mix of
man-speaking countries, by inviting the founder skills and competences among guidance workers.
of this platform as a speaker at the Euroguidance
conference 2017. In the preparation of his key In the following inputs, several concrete examples of different types of activities
note intervention, whatchado filmed 14 inter- to improve the competences of guidance practitioners on mobility and migration
views with careers- and educational guidance
counsellors. Excerpts of the videos were shown related issues will be demonstrated. These training activities take many forms
at the Euroguidance conference. Thanks to this (e.g. training days, online courses, lectures, study visits abroad, internships) and
collaboration, the occupational profile How do I Guidance counsellors being interviewed by address numerous topics and themes, such as multiculturalism, novel guidance
become a guidance counsellor now appears on whatchado © OeAD-GmbH_C Seidelberger tools for mobility, the most recent EU-level developments, ICT in guidance and
the platform.
many more.

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