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For example, according to a training manual proposed by NICE 41 , the
specialists consider that there are five types of professional roles and
functions that guarantee a professional identity in the field of career
counselling and guidance, and that they should constitute the pillars
structuring the potential creation of a European reference of
competencies in this domain:

Information and evaluation activities in the context of the career –
relevant information about oneself, training opportunities and the labour
market, as well as the evaluation of the career needs felt by the consultants
and the possible use of additional psychological evaluation resources;

Career education – support for the development of career management
skills (e.g. awareness of resources and personal needs, understanding
the labour market and the education system operation, development of
career plans...) through planned and systematic activities;

Development of career systems – support to individuals and
organisations to ‘design’ and develop/implement adaptive and healthy
career trajectories (e.g. placement, fostering links between public
services and employers to promote the integration of young people in the
labour market...);

Career counselling – helps consultants to reflect on themselves, to
make sense of their experiences, to make complex career decisions, and
to make changes in behaviour and personal performance, based on a
strong working alliance;

Management of career services – the promotion of effective
management of career services and the quality of work performed, and
the management of all the other functions and roles referred to above
presupposes a high degree of professional autonomy and an in-depth
understanding of the needs of consultants and services which, in an
appropriate way, can respond to these needs.