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Table of contents

Foreword ..................................................................................................................................1

Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................2
List of tables and figures ..........................................................................................................8

Executive summary..................................................................................................................9

1. Introduction .....................................................................................................................12
1.1. The study..............................................................................................................12
1.2. Career guidance in the context of EU strategies ..................................................12

1.3. Characteristics of effective career guidance systems...........................................13

1.4. Changes and trends .............................................................................................14
1.4.1. Stronger legal foundations for careers work............................................14
1.4.2. Merger of service delivery points.............................................................15

1.4.3. Managing diffusion...................................................................................16

1.4.4. Catalysts for change in training ...............................................................17
1.5. The role of career guidance specialists in dispersed delivery networks...............18
1.6. Competence, training, and accreditation of prior experience and learning...........20

2. Training for career guidance: the current situation .........................................................21

2.1. Career guidance roles ..........................................................................................21
2.2. Training traditions and patterns ............................................................................21
2.2.1. Pre-service training..................................................................................22

2.2.2. Induction training .....................................................................................23

2.2.3. Continuing in-service training ..................................................................23
2.2.4. Historical perspective...............................................................................23
2.3. Specialised training...............................................................................................24

2.4. School-based roles...............................................................................................26

2.5. Public employment service roles ..........................................................................28
2.5.1. Specialised academic training for PES staff............................................28
2.5.2. Generic training .......................................................................................30

2.6. Higher education roles..........................................................................................30

2.7. Roles in other settings ..........................................................................................31
2.8. The broader context..............................................................................................31

3. Training: emerging issues...............................................................................................37
3.1. Sufficiency: level and specialism ..........................................................................37

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