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The most frequently used information sources 6�2 Costs
are:

— www.scio.cz Counsellors working at schools and school fa-
— www.superkariera.cz cilities are paid from the state budget and their
services are free of charge� Counselling centres
— www.fakulta.cz at higher education institutions are funded from
— www.studujvpk.cz the budget of the particular institution and
from specific projects� Their services are free of
— www.aprace.cz charge for clients�
— www.kampomaturite.cz
Counsellors in public employment services
— www.kamnaskolu.cz (PES) are partly financed from the state budget
and partly also from other sources, usually
from the European structural funds, mostly the
Counsellors use various tests to detect their European Social Fund� Services provided by
clients’ interests and aptitudes� Some on-line the Labour Office are free of charge both for
tools have great potential for offering various jobseekers and the companies searching for
career choice procedures, including an option potential employees�
for testing levels of interest both for totally
undecided clients and for those who are able to Most of the existing guidance and counselling
make a choice but have not entirely decided, or services provided by NGOs are similarly funded
those who have almost decided and are seek- by different public sources such as the ESF, LLP,
ing information about a specific occupation: etc�
— www.infoabsolvent.cz/profitest Private employment agencies have to provide
— www.psychotesty.psyx.cz/proforient/vedma0. their brokering employment services free of
php charge for jobseekers� Services that do not
involve brokering employment but are provided
— www.zkouskaosobnosti.cz to jobseekers may be a subject to a fee�
— www.test-osobnosti.cz
— http://test-osobnosti.primat.cz/
— http://demo.comdi.cz/nabidka.php To ensure the financial sustainability of services
driven by a real demand, there is a need to rec-
— www.proskoly.cz ognise guidance and counselling as an integral
— www.psychotesty.psychoweb.cz part of education and employment services and
to establish conditions and staffing capacity for
— www.psychotestyzdarma.cz the provision of quality guidance/counselling
services�

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