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Development of Career Practitioners Competencies

– Experience of the Euroguidance Center in Serbia

In the 2018/19 school year, the Euroguidance
centre in Serbia organized a total of 8 accredited
training courses on career guidance and
counselling, which were attended by 280
participants throughout Serbia. These seminars
were aimed at developing competencies recognize
in the above-mentioned Standards by covering the
following topics: the role of schools in career
guidance and counselling, the basic types of
activities that can be implemented with pupils, the
ways in which these activities can be planned long-
term, the concrete ways in which the activities for
supporting the development of skills for presenting
oneself to employers can be carried out with pupils,
From 2017 onwards, Serbia was focussed on the etc.
question of quality of career guidance and
counselling system by developing and in June
2019 finally enacting Standards for Career
Guidance and Counselling Services. This
document defines standards in four key areas of
career guidance – Standards of Career
Management Skills, Standards of Practitioners
Competencies, Organisational Standards and
Standards of Programme. The area of standards
that concerns practitioners’ competencies defines
key knowledge, skills and attitudes relevant for
counsellors, teachers, psychologists, youth
workers and other practitioners in order to provide
quality career guidance services. This is a very
More information on activities of the Euroguidance
important step in providing better support to the
continuous professional development (CPD) of centre in Serbia as well as information on career
guidance policy and practices in Serbia is available
guidance practitioners in Serbia. The aim of these on euroguidance.rs/english/
Standards is to serve as guidelines for self-
assessment and planning of CPD for practitioners,
as well as guidelines to providers of CPD Ivana Vulic and Ruzica Madzarevic
programmes pointing out the key competences Euroguidance Centre Serbia
that need to be addressed in training programmes.

One example of the use of these Standards are
activities of the Euroguidance centre in Serbia who
continuously supported promotion and use of
Standards by developing new and improving
existing training programmes for guidance
practitioners.