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speakers from the education sector, research centres an initiative encouraging young people to improve
and business, talked about the challenges of the their professional skills through the prestigious in-
current labour market, analysed the opportunities ternational WorldSkills and EuroSkills competitions.
and threats within different professions, explored
the organisation of career counselling processes in The conference was also an opportunity to present
education, and the use of modern approaches and Europass and EPALE tools and functionality.
European tools in the work of a counsellor. The last part of the conference was a speech by Mi-
The conference began with a motivational session chał Kapczuk – an expert of recruitment marketing
"Career management in times of uncertainty” held and employer branding, who presented the current
by Prof. Adam Mickiewicz, University in Poznań and trends and methods of recruitment.
Dr hab. Małgorzata Rosalska, which directly referred The event was attended by over 80 career guidance
to the current situation on the labour market. An practitioners and the online broadcast was followed
attractive element of the event was also a debate by more than 500 people. Participants in the eval-
entitled "Attractiveness of trade schools in the uation survey assessed the conferences as a very
current situation on the labour market", where useful event in their professional development. We
experts tried to overthrow stereotypes concerning cordially invite to watch the broadcast of the 2
nd
professional education. The debate was attended by: edition of Forum. The first edition titled "Cooperation
Prof. Robert Musiałkiewicz, Magdalena Popielewska, of sectoral education with the labour market", took
Arleta Chorąży, Michał Pachocki, Beata Dziemińs-
ka-Skowron, and it was moderated by Krzysztof place a year earlier (December 17, 2021) and, due
Świerk. to the current restrictions related to the COVID-19
pandemic, it was an online event.
Workshop sessions were devoted to the subject
of modern tools, practices and work standards in National Career Guidance Award
career guidance, as well as the organisation of the Slovakia, October 2022
school career guidance system.
In October 2022, the Slovak Euroguidance centre
One of the workshop sessions provided the oppor- organised National Career Guidance Award (NCGA).
tunity to look at one of the WorldSkills 2019 and Event highlights inspiring career guidance services,
Euroskills 2021 competitors’ case studies of the allows career guidance practitioners across the
career development process. WorldSkills Poland is country and sectors to engage in exchange of good

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