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The Construction of Life
Projects Nowadays

The construction of a life project is a continuous and
multidimensional process. Continuous, because it occurs
throughout the life cycle and multidimensional, because it must
take into account other roles besides those of student and worker.
Thus, support for building career projects starts in pre-school
education and extends to supporting adults in managing the
multiple transitions that a career involves. In this perspective, the
construction and implementation of a life project is a never-
ending process, because as the individual and the contexts are
transformed, new challenges arise.

Thinking about building a career project also implies thinking
about the challenges of today's globalised economy and the skills
needed to respond to such demands. In a world of work that is
largely structured in temporary functions, in customer-oriented
business and in which work is mostly developed in autonomous
teams with the ability to find solutions in a short amount of time,
interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills are
fundamental.

However, these contexts of great unpredictability and change also
require the building of a solid personal identity, a proactive and
self-regulatory attitude, a strong belief in personal capacities, as
well as a creative curiosity of knowing and discovering
opportunities.

This situation challenges all educational agents, to create shared
objectives in the actions they perform and increase resources, in
order to develop in the student, skills and knowledge that are
adaptive to the new social order.

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