TRAINING COURSE: “EARLY CAREER GUIDANCE”
Dates: 16 – 18th August, 2016
Total Time: 24 hours
Locality: Hotel Drim, Struga
Target groups: professional staff in relevant public body actors: municipalities, centres for social work, employment service centres, public institutions for children and young people from Macedonia;
Number of trainees: 20
The group was heterogeneous, of different ages, different education and with different experience with work with children and youth – ranging from 5 months to 23 years. The trainees did not have experience with career counselling.
The goals of this part of the trainig:
What knowledge, skills and qualities a career counsellor should have
What kind of services the career counsellor provides
What is the process of career counselling and professional orientation
What kind of method the career counsellor uses
To select individual and group method appropriately in relation to situation
To understand the definitions of basic terms related to career counselling
To understand the position of the career counsellor for young people
To understand the importance of the change which relates to the work of the counsellor and accept it
To understand and analyse the professional, methodological, social and personal competencies of the career counsellor
To learn how to use the techniques of verbal communication (speaking, listening, questioning, feedback) and non verbal communication as well
To learn the forms and methods in career counselling for young people (to understand methodology for career counselling and early career guidance)
