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Future career guidance skills under the microscope in

Canterbury

The NICE Network (The Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in
Europe) arranged a conference at Canterbury Christ Church University in England in
September focused on the future of career guidance education and career guidance
competencies.

The network wanted to get feedback on some of
the proposals that have been developed within
their cooperation project:

• The key needs for the future career guidance
education which have been summarized in a
Memorandum;

• A European standard for competence was
proposed in order to professionalize guidance
and counselling;

• A Common Agenda for Research has been
established to develop research cooperation in
the area.
The proposals were discussed for two days by
the 200 members from 30 countries that
participated. Questions such as "do career
guidance practitioners today really learn what
they need to know?", "what are the roles and
functions of career guidance in the society and
what skills are needed to cope with these?" and
"what kind of research is needed to innovate the
field of career guidance and counselling?" were
scrutinized.

To validate the competence standards, NICE asks all interested career professionals,
associations, public employment service managers, HR managers, citizen representatives,
researchers, lecturers, and policy-makers concerned with questions of education, training,
employment, inclusion and lifelong guidance to review them and provide feedback and
comments before November 15, 2014. The feedback will be collected and summarized by
Johannes Katsarov ([email protected]), coordinator of the NICE network, and
will be considered in the revision and publication of the first edition of the competence
standards by the responsible team of researchers in 2015.

Anyone who wants to take a closer look at the various proposals and their content can
download the NICE Network PDF European Summit on Developing the Career Workforce of
the Future: http://www.nice-network.eu/363.html

NICE is a network funded by the
European Commission and
consists of higher education
Nina Ahlroos institutions in Europe offering
Euroguidance Sweden career guidance education.

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